Example sentences of "i [verb] that [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She asked me whether I 'd taken the cat to the vet , and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 2 | On Wednesday I met Mrs Matthews in the street and she asked if I 'd taken the cat to the vet and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 3 | I admitted that I had n't quite got around to organizing that aspect of my life yet . |
| 4 | Malc was furious , especially when I admitted that I had n't the heart to charge the old dear , so we were two quid out of pocket . |
| 5 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 6 | Now er w w with every respect , to say that he survived it is something of a crass statement , because I remember reading about him thinking is n't this country getting good that we can have a black guardsman , and I remember my own disappointment when I read that he had to leave the regiment . |
| 7 | I regret that I had been out of the office on the 15 July and did not receive your FAX until first thing on the 16 July . |
| 8 | But bitterly I regret that I needed another man 's hands to help me , and he in ignorance . ’ |
| 9 | I regret that he resigned in 1986 but I have to admit that he had a point . |
| 10 | The magazine America had already written about this ; it had published an interview in which I announced that I wanted to hand my collection over to the Tretyakov Gallery as a gift , and saying that I intended to make Lilya curator of the collection . |
| 11 | Oh yeah , but then you 've also got to watch I mean that I 'd , sometimes I 'd muck things up when I 've given too much choice I think |
| 12 | exactly , it 's the only way you can do it and I would n't do it any other way , because I do n't bel I do n't , I do n't think it 's fair , if I was using the phone continually I 'd get rather annoyed , I mean that I 'd , they 'd have a right to be annoyed , but as I do n't I think it 's ridiculous so I 'm not hardly surprised at all , so I think it 's stupid as you say , but there you go . |
| 13 | I mean that I attended the lectures given at Cambridge by Dirac . |
| 14 | I got back to work , by which I mean that I got my papers and notes out , and then sat looking at them for what seemed like a dreary lifetime , and was really probably only twenty minutes . |
| 15 | The people who were lived behind Ann there 's a yo young couple in there I think he beat her up , I mean that I wanted to go round me , because I know what it felt like and I wished somebody had come and help me . |
| 16 | No she said I 've got the second biggest co cock I mean that she 'd ever seen . |
| 17 | After a while I realized that nobody had asked them if they wanted or needed to learn management skills . |
| 18 | Then I realized that we kept returning to the same place and stopping for a few minutes , before moving off again around a similar route . |
| 19 | When this eagerly awaited party actually happened , it had been going forty minutes before Dad and I realized that we knew virtually no one there . |
| 20 | Before I 'd stopped quivering , I realized that they had n't been thrown , but dropped from above . |
| 21 | When you told me that Mrs Lyons was getting a divorce , I realized that she hoped to marry Stapleton . |
| 22 | After a while Lily began to talk , and I realized that she understood nothing of what I had said about the war . |
| 23 | ‘ No , just a friend , ’ I said too quickly , before I realized that she had almost certainly not been on duty when Sal was brought in . |
| 24 | Well I asked the girl and the she , we sort of sidetracked and when I come off the phone I realized that she had n't said . |
| 25 | Later I realized that he meant , quite simply , an anti-Semite is inevitably anti-Negro . |
| 26 | Then I realized that he did n't want one to respond , that a response of almost any kind would have interrupted his flow , and the politest thing to do was follow the ADC 's example and just listen . |
| 27 | Thinking about it now , for the first time , I realized that I 'd no idea how a karaso was made : an arm-length shaft of wood , smooth and shiny as a newly opened conker , with five prongs at the end that were perfectly shaped into the smooth curves of a grasping hand . |
| 28 | Yes I re I said that and I realized that I 'd said it and I should n't have done . |
| 29 | I realized that I had a splitting headache and that my knee joints were uncertain of their purpose when I stood up . |
| 30 | There were , of course , the inevitable forms to fill in and letters of condolence to answer , but I realized that I had not for a moment , since before the previous Christmas , given a thought to the prospect of life for one . |