Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [vb pp] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , travelling back from work in the moonlight , I would allow myself to fall silent and to wonder what scenes this moon was shining on in the Western Desert , where I had learned that Leslie now was ; and whether he was in present danger . |
| 2 | Although I have said that Eliot had not greatly physically changed , he felt the deprivations of the war as acutely as anyone else . |
| 3 | ‘ Once I had realized that Tenison , the consulting engineer , was not spelt in the same way as Tennyson , our late-lamented poet Laureate , I had no difficulty . ’ |
| 4 | I am not spreading or sagging , the glow of an early sun tan had probably removed a year or two and I 've discovered that lipstick does wonders , but there could have been little doubt in his mind that I was closer in age to his mother than to him . |
| 5 | As a journalist I had seen many countries overseas , all smaller and poorer than ourselves , being granted self-government ; and I had hoped that Scotland would not be denied even the limited self-government that was then being dished out to the Cook Islands and the Faeroe Islands and the Cameroons . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Even if I 'd believed that story when you told it to me , I certainly would n't believe it now . |
| 7 | Then off they went but I had noticed that Mrs Taylor was really crying . |
| 8 | I have n't done any world predictions recently , but I have said that Diana and Charles wo n't divorce — it 's just not in Diana 's chart . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Because I 've known that story since I was a little girl . |
| 10 | I had wondered once whether that was the reason my father had married her , but that was before I had learned that men are not much given to acts of altruism , and certainly not in sexual matters . |
| 11 | As I have heard that Kim is the beauty of the family , Lorraine the sensible one , and Megan the tomboy , I am surprised by the strength of Megan 's face , the magnificent width of features , the flush of her skin . |