Example sentences of "that i [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | It was n't till years later that I realised they had n't even remembered to ask if f was a lesbian . |
2 | It was n't until he asked if he could take some off that I realised he had got himself well wrapped up — with 24 articles of clothing , ’ said Taylor . |
3 | It was just as I was sitting down in the living room with my cup of coffee that I realised I 'd left my bag on the train . |
4 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
5 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
6 | It was then that I realised I needed some first aid training . ’ |
7 | That was the point that I heard him make in Brighton . |
8 | ‘ Except that I heard you threaten to . ’ |
9 | ‘ It was just that I heard it call so I knew there must be one about . ’ |
10 | Put against the letters that I wrote they 've all been sent out . |
11 | I recall vividly one member of the aristocracy who was in such a state about being interviewed on TV that he insisted that I help him go through a half bottle of whisky first . |
12 | As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness . |
13 | And the truth that I insist I have discovered about the animal world is that it is never , ever boring . |
14 | I had been on one of these camps before so I thought that I knew what to expect . |
15 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
16 | You , who wanted me to enter you on the same night , with the same sound still in my head , a sound that I knew I had somehow , somewhere , heard before . |
17 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |
18 | It was so clear that I knew I 'd been blind . |
19 | ‘ In those Go-away times that I knew you had I should have guessed you needed help . ’ |
20 | Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’ |
21 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
22 | So the decision was made for me , you see , it was only afterwards that I saw I had taken quite a step — a leap in the dark , in fact . |
23 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
24 | This , in turn , improved my singles game considerably and I won the Baghdad Open one year playing against Indians in the main , who were horrified that I insisted we played in the heat of a Baghdad afternoon when it was normally well over 110° in the shade , and there was no shade — mad dogs and Scotsmen ! |
25 | I thought to myself when it was erm , advertised on television , I thought I 'll tape that I bet I know well you 'll be interested in that . |
26 | I ca n't believe that I was really that desperate , that I let myself go that completely . |
27 | I can not paint it as beautifully as that , but it absorbs me so much that I let myself go , never thinking of a single rule … |
28 | ‘ I said I was subject to them , not that I let them rule me ! ’ |
29 | May I remind you that I let you go ? |
30 | ‘ Meaning that I let you kiss me once I realised that was your intention , because I too thought that it would serve a purpose and stop Terry Lewis making any more waves . |