Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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1 | It was only later that I dared to approach the nurse who did the dispensing and whisper in her ear that I knew nothing of Bach Remedies and would she please enlighten me . |
2 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
3 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
4 | Not that I knew anything about the area of course . |
5 | I hoped that by knocking-off time I 'd be able to say that I knew someone who had finished it . |
6 | It was not that I was so self-blind that I saw nothing to be learnt . |
7 | My mother insisted on accompanying me to the tailor to ensure that I got something sensible . |
8 | No , because she said something , she said that I said something did n't she ? |
9 | I hope you do n't mind that I said anything . ’ |
10 | I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness . |
11 | And I had to make all these er computations out and er I made fifty that I thought nobody could pick . |
12 | She even told Sybil that the frog in the school pond was enchanted , and poor Sybil was in such a state that I thought someone ought to teach Mildred a lesson . ‘ |
13 | ‘ It 's real strange but I do n't feel cheated or that I deserved something and did n't get it ’ . |
14 | It was then that I noticed something suspicious . |
15 | Unfortunately , after the first six or seven freebies things got a little hazy and I understand that I told everyone that Singh and his brothers ( no relation ) were indeed going to build a superstore on ‘ The Tip ’ , but that they were also going to spend £2,000,000 on a new stadium for Athletico to be built on top of Mitchley cemetery . |
16 | It was n't until my second year that I told anything like the truth about my father . |
17 | And it , it was n't until many years later that I told anyone at all that 's , that 's the thing I was saying about bulimia , it 's very secret . |
18 | While he was out I had rewritten my will so that I left nothing to my ex . |
19 | The therapist did n't attempt to persuade me that I had nothing to fear ; instead , every week I sat in her calm , warm room and talked about my family , my friendships , my feelings about myself , my ambitions . |
20 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
21 | One thing I realised about my renewal of my faith is that I had nothing to do with it ! |
22 | Monty promised me that I had nothing to worry about . |
23 | Having sized up the competition and feeling confident that I had nothing to fear , I boldly took a step forward , grabbed a morsel of soap and proceeded to scrub away . |
24 | Cutting down on food , I was University missing whole meals , telling people I was training , I 'm a P E teacher so sport and the perfect body was very much up front , so the more weight I lost the better I was told I looked until it became totally out of control and I was eating an apple and black coffee a day and then vomiting so that I had nothing in me . |
25 | And there it was , it struck me that I had nothing to lose , I was damned either way . |
26 | Joseph said : ‘ Well , just make sure you impress on her that I had nothing to do with any murder and she is not to suggest it . ’ |
27 | Just believe me when I say that I had nothing whatsoever to do with any of this . |
28 | Automatically I checked that I had plenty of fuel myself . |
29 | Assuming now that I was aware of one or two facts of which you , my dear , could not be , assuming that I had something of importance to communicate to Michel , would you still stick to your stubborn refusal ? ’ |
30 | We 've been together eight years now — so we 're over the seven year itch , not that I had one . |