Example sentences of "that i [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so surprised that I involuntarily pulled up slightly and I passed over him before I could get him in my gunsight again . |
| 2 | And it occurred to me that I neither knew how many the family owned nor how difficult mine would be to replace . |
| 3 | My book of personal stresses was examined and discussed , and it was revealed that I neither loved myself , nor saw myself as at all worthwhile or even worthy . |
| 4 | Had we sold our house two years ago , we 'd have certainly made an offer on a property that I later realised was quite unsuitable . |
| 5 | Nothing that I later ate in a restaurant was as good as our dinner , the finale being a ‘ tender coconut ’ pudding , a dish I had never eaten anywhere in the tropics . |
| 6 | He used some such expression in the text of an unpublished essay that I later found at Harvard . |
| 7 | On the walls were small pieces of wood that I later learned were the sculptures of one of Signe 's ex-boyfriends . |
| 8 | I just told him that I badly needed five hundred pounds . " |
| 9 | Naturally , when I made this suggestion to St John and his sisters , they protested strongly , and it was with great difficulty that I finally managed to convince them of my firm intention to carry out this plan . |
| 10 | Although I did n't live with Marian for another four years , it was because of her that I finally left . |
| 11 | But it was only when I punched through the thick , creamy crest and the rainbow mist cleared from my eyes that I finally gave up all hope . |
| 12 | I can see this now , yet it was not until nearly ten years after I became a Christian that I finally faced the issue that whatever other influences had been involved in my conversion ( such as my family and friends and the work of God in my life ) there was a sense in which the decision to believe was entirely my responsibility . |
| 13 | Even the fact that I finally found a trickle of scummy water , which let me rinse some of the filth from my boots , did nothing to lift my spirits . |
| 14 | Readers from last month will be glad to know that I finally tracked down the elusive Tequila based Marguerita in a Tex-Mex cafe in Covent Garden . |
| 15 | This would be the day that I finally cracked the North Shore . |
| 16 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 17 | But you have the power to hurt me , Ellie , and because I knew that I masochistically invited more . |
| 18 | In fact , so contemptible did I find his dismissal of my judgement as to what constitutes talent on the football field , that I flatly refused the £200,000 fee they were willing to pay for Colin Webley and let the useless git go on a free transfer ! |
| 19 | It was only then that I properly realised how much pressure there is on children today to succeed academically . |
| 20 | It was only then that I properly realised how much pressure there is on children today to succeed academically . |
| 21 | Er so what I did was something a bit simpler than that I just went through the memorandum and and ticked off what I regarded as restrictive statements as against positive ones . |
| 22 | It was important to me that I did tell them individually because on their own I felt I could get their attention and having to explain why I felt like this , but more than that , I wanted them to fully understand that all of a sudden I was n't a lesbian whose name was Carla — I was still Carla , except that I just had different feelings . |
| 23 | I was so impressed with the ‘ Rule Breakers ’ article by Alastair McIver that I just had to write in with my opinion on the subject . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're supposed to roll your eyes and assure me that I just had the low-cal , spun-out-of-air version of — whatever all that incredible stuff was . ’ |
| 25 | The man closes the front door , passes through the hall , and enters the room that I just left . |
| 26 | This took the form of teasing , mostly , and one day I was so fed up that I just walked out of school . |
| 27 | It was all so provocative and sexy and proud that I just felt , ‘ God . |
| 28 | It was all so provocative , sexy and proud that I just felt , ‘ God , I wan na feel like that ! ’ |
| 29 | Well er , I put the suggestion to you that I just said . |
| 30 | No , I do n't want to do that I just said to her , I said you know , you can sort of erm ask Brenda she said I 'm doing that I 'm not on christmas day , would you ? |