Example sentences of "i [vb past] [be] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing I realised was that I liked her . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , the first thing I noticed is that it omits the date of birth . |
| 3 | The thing I noticed was that they 're all close questions , you like the area , now Martin was very fair to you because you , he was very me most you could 've got very much did you move because of your , yes . |
| 4 | so I was n't quite sure of the answer that you gave back with me walking back from the camera so I just wanted to qualify that so that , I mean all that I noticed was that there was nothing that , that , no information that you tried to get out of him . |
| 5 | Erm the , the other thing I noticed was that there is very little or no eye contact at all with Martin so you , you were never really looking at him when you were asking questions or when he was giving you the answers back , so there was no er visual acknowledgement whenever he was , he was coming back to you . |
| 6 | What I suppose I imagined was that it would all be plain sailing from the moment we set eyes on each other . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ One of the selling points when I joined was that I 'd be privy to scripts that I was never exposed to because I never had an agent . ’ |
| 8 | All I heard was that you 'd come back in a taxi the worse for wear . |
| 9 | ‘ The last I heard was that he 's on the run from the authorities in Beirut . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The last I heard was that he was to be given a good education at the public school which Sir Philip 's son was attending . |
| 11 | ‘ The last thing I heard was that she 'd gone to America and married some newspaper magnate twice her age . |
| 12 | ‘ The first thing I decided was that my hair had to come off . ’ |
| 13 | Erm but I think that I , what I felt was that I should have the right to be consulted and that every reasonable effort should be made to consult me . |
| 14 | ‘ All I meant was that I find it hard to imagine myself setting up home with someone else again . ’ |
| 15 | He slipped something in my wine and the next thing I knew was that we were on the Continent . |
| 16 | All I knew was that my life was intolerable and that the only way not to be destroyed by it , or by ‘ them ’ as I called the adult , authoritative world , was to reject them and everything they stood for . |
| 17 | All I knew was that it was buried somewhere in the middle of that sea of bricks ’ ( Orwell , 1939 ; 1962 edn , p. 117 ) . |
| 18 | All I knew was that I felt married to him . |
| 19 | All I knew was that I must keep him out of sight until Herbert returned . |
| 20 | All I knew was that I felt biased towards having it . |
| 21 | so all I knew was that she got the divorce and |
| 22 | So what I thought was that it was quite important to look at all these organisations that do seem to me really to have nothing to do with Oxford or Oxfordshire , and that we should be very careful . |
| 23 | ‘ They knew they had a hell of a battle on their hands and the first thing I stressed was that we had to fight to win the ball — and we did , ’ he said . |
| 24 | All I said was that I thought it was a judgement from God that Blyth had first lost his leg and then had the replacement become the instrument of his downfall . |
| 25 | Another criticism that I had was that it was far , far too elaborate and expensive programme , I thought it was a very cheap one . |