Example sentences of "that i [vb past] it " in BNC.

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1 You see — ’ she looked up once more and met his direct blue gaze ‘ — you think I wanted to marry you , that I planned it all , but you were wrong , I did n't . ’
2 It was only when friends accused me of being a pompous , humourless prat that I realised it was meant as a joke .
3 ‘ It was only when a few of the details were released that I realised it was me .
4 It was n't till the evening when we sat down and talked about it that I realised it could have been quite dangerous .
5 It 's small wonder that this plateau has claimed lives , since in the weather that I experienced it 's impossible to have any sense of direction at all without the constant use of a compass and map .
6 It was just lucky that I spotted it in time and did something about it at such an early age , or God knows what the child might have turned into , with Saul 's soul possessing him .
7 ‘ It was just that I heard it call so I knew there must be one about . ’
8 Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it .
9 It was just then that I heard it ; a small knocking sound coming from the direction of the cupboard .
10 I am not sure now if I ever proceeded to knock ; it is quite possible , given the alarming nature of what I heard , that I judged it best to withdraw altogether .
11 No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago .
12 The fact that I knew it was wicked to expose my smooth bare slit gave me a feeling both of pleasure and of power , never vocalised .
13 I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right .
14 The laugh she gave was so dirty that I knew it was going to be all right .
15 It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing !
16 ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’
17 I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts .
18 You must take my word for it that I saw it by accident .
19 It was n't until much later that I saw it metaphorically .
20 that 's the way that I saw it .
21 I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark .
22 Summarize what the candidate said to make sure that I got it right ?
23 I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni .
24 I would n't tell her that I got it from my friend , half of it , anyway .
25 All those positions were going for want of an application , so I applied and because brought in people who he knew , certain of them were automatically filled but they want the Chief Administration Officer , so I applied and really I do n't kid myself that I got it because of my qualification because I had n't got any letters after my name .
26 Yeah , I never though of that and I doubt if I get it now , all I think was well I know that I got it in the magazine rack
27 We did get through some pretty hot language , erm he did say that this would destroy the tripartite system and he quoted me and said that I said it was a system which was the end of the world .
28 I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict .
29 ‘ I keep telling myself that it is n't possible , that I imagined it . ’
30 You were so young , at an age to want to experiment and to find a DJ a glamorous figure , that I imagined it was superficial enough to have a time limit on it .
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