Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't till the evening when we sat down and talked about it that I realised it could have been quite dangerous . |
| 2 | So thickly was the snow falling that I knew they could only just have been made , probably within the past five minutes . |
| 3 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 4 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 5 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 6 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 7 | Also , my brother was such a good trumpet player that I knew I would never be as good as he was , so there was that in there too : like , ‘ God , I do n't really want follow in this guy 's footsteps . ' ’ |
| 8 | I was shaken by its totality , its danger — here was a being that I knew I would die for without hesitation . |
| 9 | " I had chest pains so bad that I knew I would be unable to give 100 per cent . " |
| 10 | That was n't the case with me , I just wanted the opportunity to do something that I knew I could do . |
| 11 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 12 | It was n't until the party that I knew I could n't pretend to myself any longer . |
| 13 | It was then that I knew I could have a fight on my hands : If the manager sided with him and asked me to move a few feet away then I 'd have no choice but to join in the squabble . |
| 14 | The working party on Equal Opportunities that I said I would convene ? |
| 15 | And s some suggestions that I said I 'd put forward to Janet about streamlining nominations and so on . |
| 16 | I did n't want John thinking that I said he would get her one . |
| 17 | Er and the only reason that I thought they may have been favourable , would have been based on the principle of fair play , but then erm when you think of er companies who are making profits from year to year which were in excess of the previous years , then by the time three years expired , our members could have been in a loss situation , if indeed they had n't gone forward and argued the case at domestic level . |
| 18 | We had passed so close to the Dutchman that I thought we must have run over his foot . |
| 19 | I answered my own question , and said that I thought we must be middle class , and reflected very precisely in that moment on my mother 's black waisted coat with the astrakhan collar , and her high-heeled black suede shoes , her lipstick . |
| 20 | I hope you do n't mind my telling you , it 's only that I thought you ought to know . ’ |
| 21 | Its just that I thought you would n't come here any more … not after last night . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ The main reason that I am contacting you is that I thought you might be interested to know that John ( stage name Joan Rawson ) was awarded the Eric Rowley Trophy for the artist who has done the most for charity over the last 12 months . |
| 23 | And you look so topping in that dress that I thought you might be a sport . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're so slim that I thought you might be one of those women who are on a perpetual diet , and I dislike intensely dining with someone who eats like a sparrow . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It 's just that I thought you should n't be able to turn people out of places they 've lived in for years , it does n't make sense . |
| 26 | And I just liked reading it so much that I thought you 'd like to read it too . |
| 27 | Except that I thought you 'd understand — and perhaps I did think that you had a right to know why I feel the way I do about … about anything permanent . ’ |
| 28 | Stok joined in the last three words as I said them , and then he laughed So loud that I thought he would shake some of the cracked tiles off the wall . |
| 29 | He answered prayer not in the way I sought , Nor in the way that I thought he ought , But in his own good way , and I could see , He answered in the fashion best for me . |
| 30 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |