Example sentences of "that [subord] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing this , I was still impotent , for I had nothing to put in its stead , no one to turn to for advice or support , and I had learned for myself nothing of life except that I was bad at living , and that where I loved I met only rejection and disaster . |
| 2 | ‘ I think , Mr Boldwood , that although I respect you very much , I do n't feel — enough for you — to accept your proposal . ’ |
| 3 | Thank you the only is that you will have seen organised generally supported that although I think we could support it a lot better than we have . |
| 4 | But remember , Isabel , if you dislike your present position , that once I offered you honourable marriage . |
| 5 | Do n't need that cos I got my two |
| 6 | Well they 'd always got an excuse but he said , she could n't deny that cos I see it ! |
| 7 | it is all wrong , cos I says to Stuart we had , we were at him Monday , I says why is it this year I says I get a , a thing to go to court on Monday , I says and yet last year I says I did n't pay mine till end of February she says oh well they 're getting stricter this year she says , oh you 've got a court thing fifteen pound and I says yeah and she says paying that , I said no I 'm not paying that cos I pay what I owe , I said but I 'm not paying the fifteen pound court cost |
| 8 | I got Optrex in my room but I bought that cos I used it so much . |
| 9 | ‘ Look Katie , your job is your business , I admit that until I met you I did n't have a lot of time for the police . |
| 10 | I think that until I drop I will clean wherever I happen to be on Saturday morning . |
| 11 | ‘ I wo n't know that until I meet her at lunchtime . |
| 12 | ‘ But the thing about Robbo is that he is a determined beggar and I know that if I ask him , he will say OK if he 's ready . |
| 13 | I think he was frightened that I might unwittingly say too much — that if I knew everything , I 'd be more likely to guard my tongue ; be part of the conspiracy . ’ |
| 14 | At least I think that if I knew my rugby , I would be in a good position to acknowledge that you know yours . |
| 15 | Promotion to Vice-Questore seemed certain and the general feeling was that if I played my cards right I would make Questore in the end . |
| 16 | Phil : Well I would say that if I had my life over again I wish and hope that everything happens the same , and I think at the end of the day Becky had been the cream on top of the cake … |
| 17 | I know total-total that if I had my own bike , the Wheels-and-brakes Boys would n't treat me like that . |
| 18 | He added : ‘ I am sure that if I had my time again there would be many things I would do differently ’ , but went on : ‘ Criticism is part of the price of leadership . ’ |
| 19 | I thought that if I told him what had really happened he might not let me go again and I wanted to see Charlie Chaplin and the Keystone Cops ones that were coming soon . |
| 20 | She had kept silent because ‘ my understanding was that if I told anyone I would die . |
| 21 | He warned me that if I told anyone about it , he would just deny it outright . |
| 22 | I soon realized that if I made it a bit spicy , I 'd get more than threepence for it , so I used to make up limericks , things like , |
| 23 | I thought that if I made you realise how strongly I felt you might decide you feel the same . ’ |
| 24 | But then in the next fraction of the same instant I realized that if I thought I had ceased to exist then I existed that the very thinking of this thought was me . |
| 25 | I 'm afraid I ca n't subscribe to the theory that man should always be ‘ bloody , bold and resolute ’ ; but rather , I confess , that it 's very comforting to lean on you sometimes … more especially as I 've a funny instinct that if I follow your ways I ca n't go wrong , whereas my own existence is apt to be hardening , as you can see that it must be . |
| 26 | I thought that if I took him down to paddle for a while , it would cool him down and distract him , so he would be able to sleep . |
| 27 | Yet fear it I did , so greatly did the idea come to me that if I took her up to the cave to meet Elsbeth , she would somehow have trapped me instead of I her . |
| 28 | for it and he said well , well er basically it just got down to well if you kiss me I 'll give it to you and then , and then he decided that if I kissed him |
| 29 | Now we 're fortunate with with this that if I turn it on it 's very quiet but if any of you had and I 'm sure Jeff you 've probably seen it where you get some older machines and the fan in there rattles like mad and there 's nothing worse than having that thing rattling all all the day . |
| 30 | Now I know that if I hold my arm up but keep it still she has the benefit of the updraught and will open her wings and take off . |