Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] i [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I proposed that I teach one woman what I knew so that she could teach the others after we got more machines . |
2 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
3 | ‘ When I got to my door I found that I had this cement cock in my pocket . |
4 | This went on for 13 months until my parents realised that I needed medical attention . |
5 | For all his ego and vanity , even Florian has never for a moment imagined that I felt any sort of lust or love for him , although he also has no idea just how selfish and immature I do find him outside a broadcasting studio . |
6 | If we also assume that my neighbour assumed that I knew these facts about the world , and that I interpreted her words according to the co-operative principle , then we can also see why the way she actually phrased her request is not only true and relevant , but also brief and clear . |
7 | Not one of you noticed that I dipped this finger into the samples but licked another one . |
8 | Before leaving the village I consulted a chart outside the coastguard station , which confirmed that I had five hours before high tide ; this would give me time to get to the end of Worm 's Head and safely back onto the cliffs without danger of being stranded . |
9 | Some people claimed that I had another job lined up but time has proved them wrong . |
10 | Some people claimed that I had another job lined up but time has proved them wrong . |
11 | Erm , I erm , employ people , so I decided to have an employment section , six months later when I was reviewing the daytimer , I discovered that I had one sheet in my employment section , er , about a lady I had interviewed and not employed , whereas I had a prospect section that was overflowing , and needed drastic sub-division . |
12 | Unfortunately , just as we were on the verge of starting an affair , he heard that I had other irons in the fire . ’ |
13 | We 're talking about 1970 , 69–70 , and I decided that I liked this kind of … . |
14 | And it meant that I had free access to the whole of the so much so , I had a key to the bottom of entry in er access to the firm and I could get in when I liked . |
15 | I saw that I had new books by my bedside . |
16 | The document was in the name of Mustafa Ibn Assaad Shihada Zamzam , Mrs Zamzam 's husband , and when she saw that I recognised this type of British mandate deed Mrs Zamzam 's face lit up as if a great discovery had been made . |
17 | When I played in the Wimbledon final , I knew that I had certain kinds of weaknesses . |
18 | He knew that I had some experience , but I think he was trying to make me relax and , perhaps , find out just how much I did or did n't know . |
19 | My diary records such incidents as , ‘ Had to eat another roll at breakfast , much to my disgust ’ , or ‘ M. insisted that I eat another piece of toast , so I walked out in disgust . ’ |
20 | The Principal , a frightful piece of lava from a volcano long extinct , actually insisted that I relinquish domestic tuition , simperingly permitted the murky phrase sexual harassment to hover in the air between us , and indicated that in the course of the aestival recess he might be reconsidering the terms and conditions of my employment . |
21 | ‘ They said that I had enough equity to qualify for a multi-currency loan . |
22 | I met the promoter at a party and he was looking for an opening act and I said that I had this dance band which would be a perfect opener for Gary Glitter and he took us on . |