Example sentences of "[that] i [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so surprised that I followed him without a word . |
| 2 | It was just lucky that I spotted it in time and did something about it at such an early age , or God knows what the child might have turned into , with Saul 's soul possessing him . |
| 3 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 4 | It was only later that I dared to approach the nurse who did the dispensing and whisper in her ear that I knew nothing of Bach Remedies and would she please enlighten me . |
| 5 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 6 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 8 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
| 9 | Not that I knew anything about the area of course . |
| 10 | ‘ He gave me six points for this country so clearly that I saw them as if on a black-board and could simply copy them down . ’ |
| 11 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 12 | It was not that I was so self-blind that I saw nothing to be learnt . |
| 13 | You must take my word for it that I saw it by accident . |
| 14 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 15 | I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark . |
| 16 | I started off at the s at the start I was er I was getting mouth ulcers , and then well I did n't get them to the severity that I got them with the sulfasalazine |
| 17 | Yeah , I never though of that and I doubt if I get it now , all I think was well I know that I got it in the magazine rack |
| 18 | I would n't tell her that I got it from my friend , half of it , anyway . |
| 19 | And he accepted these conditions believing , no doubt ( if he thought of it at all ) , that I fulfilled myself by providing the conditions he as an artist needed . |
| 20 | My dear mother 's statement years ago that I deprived her of her fur coat and that I was n't much to look at — she once actually pronounced me ugly — bit deep . |
| 21 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
| 22 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
| 23 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
| 24 | I am entering my true life , the life I was prevented from leading — well , that I prevented myself from leading by my stupidity , my incredible folly . |
| 25 | I think it was Angie and Tony , going back to that incredible support that I told you about when I first met them , that they were also dreamers and had such faith and believed in David 's future and his destiny . |
| 26 | You see and that al old aunt that I told you about she always referred this road through as the new road . |
| 27 | It was n't until my second year that I told anything like the truth about my father . |
| 28 | And it , it was n't until many years later that I told anyone at all that 's , that 's the thing I was saying about bulimia , it 's very secret . |
| 29 | While he was out I had rewritten my will so that I left nothing to my ex . |
| 30 | I had no idea that what was happening was my body trying to bring itself up to a natural weight rather than the unnatural , low one that I kept it at . |