Example sentences of "that i [verb] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only towards the end of last year , when the book was going to press and space was tight , that I realised how important a contribution was made not only by my work , but also the work of all the women who had contributed to the Project both nationally and internationally . |
| 2 | It was only when I was in secondary school and took notice of the relationship of children of my age were with their parents and families , that I realised how other people behaved . |
| 3 | It was n't until I 'd bought one and used it that I realised how much it speeded up knitting . |
| 4 | However , it was not until she came round from behind the reception desk that I realised how huge she was . |
| 5 | I think it was then , with his powerful fingers digging like claws into my arm , that I realised how formidable the man was . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 7 | Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings . |
| 8 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |
| 9 | I could n't wait to run home and tell my mother that I knew how to mix colours . ’ |
| 10 | Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one . |
| 11 | It was only six months earlier , when I read his Lyrical Essays , that I realized how essential these Algerian summers are to an understanding of Camus . |
| 12 | It was only long after her death that I realized how much anger lay under my acceptance of that responsibility and how much energy I had used holding that down . |
| 13 | The first thing that I noticed when I arrived in the dusty Managua airport , besides the tanks parked in the landing field , was an enormous poster of an unmistakable Daniel Ortega , clad in blue jeans and a cowboy shirt , holding an infant with an earring . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not that there are two Nigel Mansells , it 's just that I know when to compete and when to relax . |
| 15 | I 've got this watch with an alarm on it , so that I know when to take it . |
| 16 | ‘ And when you see Bellybutton , tell him that I know where his brother is , and I 'll pick the bastard up whenever I choose and then feed him head first into a cane-shredder . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ So I ca n't say that I know where your mother is or why she left . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm not sure that I know how to explain it to you . ’ |
| 19 | When he was engaged in writing The Cocktail Party , he was asked how long he would devote himself to the theatre rather than to poetry ; he replied , " Until I can convince people that I know how to write a popular play " . |
| 20 | I 'm well educated and I 've got two children and I can manage pretty well , there 's a number of much more essential things that I know how to do , but I ca n't do those ones , and when they come up I feel like weeping myself sick . " |
| 21 | I 'm er I 'm pretty clear what 's expected of me but not so certain that I know how to make it sufficiently interesting to achieve your undivided attention . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's just that I know how all-controlling you are . |
| 23 | You know , perhaps if you straightened up on the side , or made it a bit more symmetrical , so that I know how to improve it next time . |
| 24 | That I know how but I bought it |
| 25 | It was when he was commissioned to write seventeen and a half minutes of light music for the radio that I discovered why Jean-Claude had insisted I bring from London some of my most beautifully tailored suits and expensive dresses . |
| 26 | think I mind says that I ask where you going now , going now or , well he 's not been here . |
| 27 | I agree that I have been reinforced ( although I 'm not sure that I learnt how to make coffee by operant conditioning — I suspect I copied someone , or was told how to do it — but that is a separate issue ) . |
| 28 | ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it . |
| 29 | You could say that to me now , now that I understand how much you loved me , now that I have suffered , now that I am a better person . |
| 30 | He seemed so weak that I wondered how long he would live . |