Example sentences of "that [conj] i [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Knowing this , I was still impotent , for I had nothing to put in its stead , no one to turn to for advice or support , and I had learned for myself nothing of life except that I was bad at living , and that where I loved I met only rejection and disaster .
2 But remember , Isabel , if you dislike your present position , that once I offered you honourable marriage .
3 I got Optrex in my room but I bought that cos I used it so much .
4 ‘ Look Katie , your job is your business , I admit that until I met you I did n't have a lot of time for the police .
5 I thought that if I told him what had really happened he might not let me go again and I wanted to see Charlie Chaplin and the Keystone Cops ones that were coming soon .
6 I soon realized that if I made it a bit spicy , I 'd get more than threepence for it , so I used to make up limericks , things like ,
7 I thought that if I made you realise how strongly I felt you might decide you feel the same . ’
8 But then in the next fraction of the same instant I realized that if I thought I had ceased to exist then I existed that the very thinking of this thought was me .
9 I thought that if I took him down to paddle for a while , it would cool him down and distract him , so he would be able to sleep .
10 Yet fear it I did , so greatly did the idea come to me that if I took her up to the cave to meet Elsbeth , she would somehow have trapped me instead of I her .
11 for it and he said well , well er basically it just got down to well if you kiss me I 'll give it to you and then , and then he decided that if I kissed him
12 I know that if I left him , I would never be happy again .
13 I was terrified that if I criticized him he would take offence and leave me , if not permanently , then for a few days , without giving me a sign of life , and so leaving me in anguish .
14 I suppose I knew what your reaction would be , but thought in my arrogance that if I presented you with a fait accompli , the sale of the land , your money back , you 'd be so overwhelmed with gratitude that you 'd immediately fall into my arms . ’
15 Now you said that if I gave you X cos squared three X it might be a bit easier to integrate .
16 It was because he told me he had seen a woman more beautiful than me , and said that if I wanted him as a husband , I must marry him at once !
17 ‘ Alex felt that if I selected him for the Poland game , he should play and try to help us get the result before announcing his retirement , and that was Bryan 's intention . ’
18 At the back of my mind I must have hoped that if I telephoned him in advance , Helmut would help in this way .
19 I would have loved to have stayed because I really enjoy things like that , I love discos and get up and have a dance but I knew damn well that if I did I 'd be absolutely shattered today and I , I just would n't be with it so I , I said to Matthew I 'm going up .
20 I know I should have told you earlier but I reasoned that if I did you would n't want me along ; and you needed a guide .
21 At first he was really quiet but I kinda changed that because I treated him like my brother by punching him ! ’
22 ‘ I chose that because I thought I would still be able to keep my hand in by writing the staff newspaper . ’
23 ‘ Luiza told me , when Therese first came up here , that she was divorced and the husband was in a clinic over near Mayerling — the Schubert Clinic — I remembered that because I thought it was a funny name for a clinic . ’
24 I know that because I heard them . ’
25 Do you not realise that since I met you I — ? ’
26 She thought , I knew that before I met him .
27 I should have have checked that before I wrote it in .
28 The committee became so unnerved at the thought that the club premises might be under threat that when I said I knew how to deal with these bounders , but it could only be as chairman , they swallowed it hook , line and sinker .
29 N well I , I , I had , why I was so positive about it , I had an uncle who had it very badly and as a child I was very aware of his hands , they were quite inhuman looking , they were that shape , and you know everything he did he , he had to that and that 's remained in my mind that when I got it I though I wo n't have the hands like that so I r I w I go , I went to sleep , I still do it , every night , spread my hands , the last thing I think about , spread the hands .
30 I swear to you that when I kissed you in Ib 's Club it was simply because I could n't resist the temptation .
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