Example sentences of "i [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the wine loosened Ralemberg 's tongue and the more he spoke the more convinced I became that his trading venture would be the basis of my own success . |
| 2 | The more I read of the early months of Nicholas MacMahon the more convinced I became that I too was rearing a prodigy . |
| 3 | I asked that they take a different route each time , as far as possible , and to occasionally drive him there . |
| 4 | It is why I asked that he might attend here . |
| 5 | I ruled that they would be confined to the Promenade and Fleetwood line ’ . |
| 6 | She asked me whether I 'd taken the cat to the vet , and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 7 | On Wednesday I met Mrs Matthews in the street and she asked if I 'd taken the cat to the vet and I admitted that I had n't . |
| 8 | I admitted that I had n't quite got around to organizing that aspect of my life yet . |
| 9 | Malc was furious , especially when I admitted that I had n't the heart to charge the old dear , so we were two quid out of pocket . |
| 10 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
| 11 | In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates . |
| 12 | Now er w w with every respect , to say that he survived it is something of a crass statement , because I remember reading about him thinking is n't this country getting good that we can have a black guardsman , and I remember my own disappointment when I read that he had to leave the regiment . |
| 13 | But it does n't it does n't take from the point that I made that it is i i the allocation they 're seeking is aimed at a very specific sector of the employment base . |
| 14 | At the end of November 1983 , I announced that I was going to head an inquiry into occupational pensions . |
| 15 | The magazine America had already written about this ; it had published an interview in which I announced that I wanted to hand my collection over to the Tretyakov Gallery as a gift , and saying that I intended to make Lilya curator of the collection . |
| 16 | After a while I realized that nobody had asked them if they wanted or needed to learn management skills . |
| 17 | When this eagerly awaited party actually happened , it had been going forty minutes before Dad and I realized that we knew virtually no one there . |
| 18 | During a visit to the hairdresser 's I realized that we women are prepared to put ourselves through the most extraordinary practices in order to improve our image . |
| 19 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 20 | Fritz wanted to do something immediately about Black Michael and his men , but Sapt and I realized that we could not do anything openly . |
| 21 | Then I realized that we kept returning to the same place and stopping for a few minutes , before moving off again around a similar route . |
| 22 | Alec and I realized that we would only endanger our lives by trying to extract Father from where he lay and make a night climb with him . |
| 23 | This time I left them alone , and stayed in the kitchen with little Hareton , but when I came to warn them that Hindley had returned , I realized that their quarrel had only brought them closer together . |
| 24 | I realized that they were talking about some poems of Emily 's . |
| 25 | I realized that they were the two lights of a coach . |
| 26 | Before I 'd stopped quivering , I realized that they had n't been thrown , but dropped from above . |
| 27 | I was talking to friends when I realized that someone was watching me . |
| 28 | I could understand how she felt ; I realized that anyone who convinced herself that , when she took the holy biscuit she was uniting herself with God , would find it easy to convince herself that in death she would be united with her daughter . |
| 29 | As our eyes met in the glass , I realized that she was not admiring the flaking stone blocks opposite but using the window as a mirror . |
| 30 | I realized that she — and possibly Jean-Claude — might be expecting me to approach Helmut for the money . |