Example sentences of "[that] i [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I would never be able to return to the present — not that I cared just then . |
| 2 | I had about five barges to look after and you could n't see everyone — not that I cared so very much , to tell the truth . |
| 3 | I 'm taking steps to make sure that I last as long as possible . |
| 4 | Did I tell you about that song that I heard just once . |
| 5 | I apologise for the fact that I heard only about 40 minutes of the Minister of Agriculture 's speech . |
| 6 | His way of praising me was to say that I wrote as naturally as a hen laying eggs , or to remark , after he had destroyed a work with his criticisms , ‘ Everything I have not marked seems to me either good or excellent . |
| 7 | It is winter evenings at Eton that I remember most vividly : talking and arguing about anything and everything with friends in front of a coal fire ; sitting in my armchair with my feet up , reading a story by Buchan , Kipling or Conrad , or something by one of the African big-game hunters whose books I was already collecting . |
| 8 | The three things that I remember most clearly about Basil were , firstly , his great interest in the development of children 's powers of observation , to help them with their aesthetic expression . |
| 9 | That I remember very distinctly . |
| 10 | not that I perceived any longer if the had n't gone . |
| 11 | Sir , i having listened to the discussion nearly two two days , two and a half days , it seems to me that I come very firmly with the conclusion that the A f A fifty nine , the A nineteen north and B one three six corridors are simply not practical . |
| 12 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 13 | It is an autumnal sign and one in which the ‘ balance ’ might be tipped one way or another , and in sexuality could hover between male and female , with one sexual scale dipping then the other rising obediently and almost passively , distantly , independently , in an alternation of identities and desires that I knew so well . |
| 14 | The nose and beard also seemed to imply , to produce , to secrete constantly a certain kind of mind which had nothing to do with the intelligence diffused throughout the books , books that I knew so intimately , and which were permeated by a gentle and God-like wisdom . ’ |
| 15 | Irina had the idea that I knew certainly as much of the truth behind the events as anyone and possibly more . |
| 16 | ‘ It could be that I 've simply never felt strongly enough about anyone , ’ she cut in , instantly wishing the words unsaid as she realised how much they revealed about her feelings for him . |
| 17 | Doreen rose to the occasion by smiling radiantly as she said , ‘ I doubt that I 've ever really been far away from Silas — at least I know I 've always been in his thoughts . ’ |
| 18 | You know I 've got a straight navy coat that I 've hardly ever wore , I 've discovered that it 'll only cost eleven pounds fifty to have it shortened at Sketchley 's , and it 's all done . |
| 19 | It 's just that I 've never seriously thought about it before . |
| 20 | Now that I 've never ever come across that before ! |
| 21 | To test it 's authenticity I chose a dozen snails in garlic butter to start a dish that I 'd only ever eaten in Paris before . |
| 22 | He remarked that I looked neither well nor happy . |
| 23 | I ca n't say that I looked too far ahead , probably because I 'm the kind of person who lives for today . |
| 24 | We can already say that I mean there there obviously there 's a lot of talk now about erm taxation towards towards resource taxes and those sorts of things which the Green Party were saying you know fifteen years ago or something . |
| 25 | The reason that I said please always open by the triggers , is that if you open by pulling the rings apart , the rings will eventually distort , your papers will fall out , you 'll send it back to me , claiming that the binder was defective . |
| 26 | It was clear that Geoffrey Howe and myself would be the also-rans , but I was a little surprised that I ran so badly . |
| 27 | my copy of the constitution that I filed away so neatly when I received that months ago . |
| 28 | I suspect , then , that I paused rather abruptly and looked a little awkward . |
| 29 | Asked whether yesterday 's attack had been a case of spontaneous combustion , he said : ‘ Look , it 's a reaction that I put forward there on behalf of , as much as anything else , the readers of our newspaper . |
| 30 | The special educational needs support service ( SENSS ) that I know well now has a structured hierarchy to ensure that available staffing resources are distributed through the borough according to needs . |