Example sentences of "that i had [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I felt that I had progressed from just wanting to ‘ be gay ’ to being ‘ Black and gay ’ .
2 He had written a book called Stilfragen on the history of the acanthus motif , and that I had studied as a student .
3 Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century .
4 Sir , It is a sad reflection on the high street banks ' attitude to their customers that I had to rely on FARMERS WEEKLY for financial information vital to the overall profitability of my farming business .
5 to actually create the right learning environment for them , there were a thousand little details that I had to attend to , like had I planned my lesson right , was I progressing in the right way round the classroom , had I remembered to chase up certain people 's homework , and stuff .
6 To me she represented all that I had imagined of the bygone days of sail .
7 I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 !
8 And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there …
9 I gave up the stiff white collars that I had worn at the advertising agency and was careful to wear plain ties ; but my suits were Burton 's at £10 a time .
10 Food was short and for two days I was kept running round trying to buy up supplies , with the result that I had to retire to bed with blistered feet .
11 Although it would be mad to claim that I felt happy , my first feeling was one of cheer that I had escaped from prison .
12 And against all sense and credibility I worked out that I had landed in the midst of what might be called a farmstead , Fraxilly-style .
13 Eventually I accepted that I had to leave without my baby .
14 and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job .
15 It was with deep regret that I had to leave for home later that evening .
16 Except that I had to live with the aftermath .
17 Stopping to ask a local woman where I might find Dr Mareda , I discovered that I was speaking to his companion , Vera , and that I had stopped outside their front door .
18 One thing that I had grasped about the whole business was that we were going to live in a country area where there would be lots of wildlife , and I had heard of King Arthur , of course .
19 It was dark , I could n't make out their features , but I was terrified that I had jumped from the pot into the flames .
20 Of course he was n't always there because frequently there were notes from his mother to say that he had earache or something , but later on I realized , of course , that those notes had been faked , the same as the notes that I had sent to school from my mother several generations before that .
21 When Phil Collins came on , his jacket had such wide shoulders that I had to lean to one side to see the monitor TV set which the producer uses to scribble messages to me .
22 Mrs Sandison senior was sitting in the stern , complaining about the lack of rising fish , and the useless flies that I had mounted on her cast , when the trout grabbed .
23 Given that they had the ‘ weather works ’ that day in the shape of sleet , hail , wind and rain , whilst simultaneously a view of quite a lot of snow on Vesuvius , I was glad that I had stayed at home with a good book .
24 And it was perfect for me because a lot of the vibrato that I had developed over the years suddenly sounded more like me , because the vibrato bar was n't there taking up the slack and giving way every time I applied vibrato .
25 Petra surpassed anything that I had visualised in my kitchen fantasy-life .
26 I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle .
27 It was not with my reason that I had fallen in love with him and come to live with him , but it was with my reason that I was going to leave him .
28 ‘ The first time I met her , while I was working for him , I think she knew that I had fallen in love with him and yet she was kinder to me than anyone I 've ever known .
29 It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain .
30 He added , alarmingly , of the November shipment : ‘ I know that that is in my memory that I had heard of France being connected with such a thing . ’
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