Example sentences of "i [vb past] that i [verb] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yes I re I said that and I realized that I 'd said it and I should n't have done . |
| 9 | I realized that I had a splitting headache and that my knee joints were uncertain of their purpose when I stood up . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At the time of qualifying , however , I realized that I had the choice of working for the Eastern Health Board or the Catholic Church ( the two are interchangeable ) . |
| 12 | I realized that I had n't moved two feet away from the oven all morning , and I was exhausted . |
| 13 | I realized that I had been tricked , so I then turned to some American and French correspondents . |
| 14 | But when Joelle introduced us I realized that I had n't really been prepared for the meeting at all . |
| 15 | I realized that I had completely forgotten what he sounded like . |
| 16 | I realized that I had made a mistake : the no boundary condition implied that disorder would in fact continue to increase during the contraction . |
| 17 | And I realized that I had no family . |
| 18 | It was becoming dark and I realized that I had lost my way . |
| 19 | At this juncture , I realized that I had driven close to the point where the boat had landed me the previous evening . |
| 20 | I found myself hurrying ton , until I realized that I had no destination : I wondered how many people around me had fallen into the same trap . |
| 21 | But I realized that I had to do something pretty dramatic to avoid too serious an accident . |
| 22 | I realized that I needed food and a place to get warm . |
| 23 | I got a bag of potatoes , the ones , say I thought erm this morning , I 'd , I 'd open a tin of corned beef actually it was an accident I er forgot that , what , I was opening a tin of corned beef for , erm , I was gon na make a salad when I realized that I did n't like corned beef |
| 24 | I was half asleep against his shoulder and then … suddenly I realized that I wanted him to kiss me . |
| 25 | As I sat there , I realized that I disliked sitting beside this girl very much indeed . |
| 26 | I realised that I get far more excitement than my heart and head can stand just from seeing my favourite sportsmen or women or teams fight their good fights and win magnificently , or lose unluckily ( always unluckily ) and my blood pressure would be much better off without even that vicarious sort of excitement . |
| 27 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 28 | I felt a strong feeling of nausea as I realised that I had put my hand through the chest of a dead British soldier that could have been lying in the ditch for several days . |
| 29 | I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment . |
| 30 | When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year . |