Example sentences of "that i [vb past] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when I got home and looked up the dictionary that I realised what a gem it had been . |
| 2 | It was n't until later that I realised what it was . |
| 3 | ‘ It was then that I realised what a lovely person he was , ’ says Avril . |
| 4 | John , of Pontypridd , Mid Glamorgan , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't until I came to pay for a car at the auction that I realised what I 'd done . |
| 5 | ‘ Not , of course , that I realised what he 'd done then . |
| 6 | ‘ It was only when the doorbell rang and two more couples joined us that I realised what he had in mind . ’ |
| 7 | It was only after we had left , and were returning home that I realised what a good feeling it was to have helped someone in pain . |
| 8 | Let me tell the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) that I heard what he said about this matter on Thursday , and I agree with him . |
| 9 | ‘ The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’ |
| 10 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 11 | The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not . |
| 12 | I fancied that I knew what he was thinking ; much like what Jack would have thought . |
| 13 | With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid . |
| 14 | ‘ I was shocked in the sense that I knew what inspectors could do , but I was n't worried because I thought they were just wasting their time . ’ |
| 15 | Also , I believe I made it clear that I knew what I wanted from a partnership with a sponsor and was precise and convincing in my presentation . |
| 16 | Clearly it was I who should have spoken these words , but already I had a feeling that I knew what the brown paper and the ribbed cardboard concealed , and I was n't going to say a word until time or circumstance compelled me . |
| 17 | He must have seen from my face that I knew what he was talking about . |
| 18 | Well , everyone seemed to think that I knew what I was doing with a computer , so the shifts , the picket shifts were left up to me , any facts and figures needed , databases , addresses were left up to me . |
| 19 | The Guv'nor told me to ride Ile de Bourbon in the big race telling me that I knew what he could do and that win was the biggest of my career so far but I 'll always remember Lester who had finished nearly last padding disconsolately into the weighing room and asking me ‘ Did you know your horse had improved so much ’ . |
| 20 | I remember thinking that I knew what painting was about at last . ’ |
| 21 | I had been on one of these camps before so I thought that I knew what to expect . |
| 22 | It was n't until later that I saw what ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ was capable of , in Block 10 . |
| 23 | The famous sequence when the helicopters gather in the sky before the great attack has music with it — very familiar music ! — but , do you know , I was so gripped by the power of Coppola 's image , the helicopters , the music , that it was n't until many , many hours afterwards that I realized what the music was he had been using . |
| 24 | I wept buckets , but it was n't until later that I realized what had happened . |
| 25 | It was during this visit that I realized what people must have gone through simply to immigrate to the United States . |
| 26 | Her voice was very earnest , as though it was desperately important that I understood what she said . |
| 27 | It may seem stupid , but it was n't until years later , when we were in Morocco , that I understood what he was trying to tell me then . |
| 28 | He still listened , but now I do n't think he was hearing me , not believing that I meant what I said . |
| 29 | This is particularly noticeable in Between ; indeed she herself says ‘ it 's really with Between that I discovered what I could do with language ’ ( 1989e:83 ) . |
| 30 | It was not until the middle of May that I discovered what it was that had so stimulated my friend . |