Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [pers pn] [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 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
5 | 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 ! |
6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
7 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
8 | You must take my word for it that I saw it by accident . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 |
11 | 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 |
12 | I would n't tell her that I got it from my friend , half of it , anyway . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . ’ |
17 | 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 . |
18 | You see and that al old aunt that I told you about she always referred this road through as the new road . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | I was so frightened by the blind man 's violence that I obeyed him without question , and took him into the room where the sick captain was sitting . |
21 | I told her that I had you at work then yesterday , right , she says oh no another one , right , and ended up |
22 | ‘ You see that I had you in my mind ! ’ |
23 | My regard for her was reflected in the fact that I asked her to be my son , Giles 's godmother . |
24 | I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime . |
25 | Whenever I have met him since , he has invariably reminded me that I taught him about the business ! |
26 | They know that I killed him on purpose because he took my best animal . ’ |
27 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
28 | As my husband was then a consultant there , and involved in research in rheumatology , it was only natural that I joined him in the research field . |
29 | Does Mike have some er Georgian Hotel , look at that Christmas jokes , Daddy , Eddie 's broken my new dog how did he do that I hit him on the head with it Why is Father Christmas unemployed ? |
30 | Also that I described them in car on way home as five most grotesque examples of humanity this side of the swamps of Lousiana . |