Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Now that I 've seen the finished copy I 'm delighted that I encouraged Susan to write it , ’ said Mrs Major . |
2 | I 'll feel that I 've lost a good friend . |
3 | You might like to know that I 've approached no other company . |
4 | Or ‘ I had a binge last night and I 've no excuse , except that I 've got a terrible hangover this morning and I 'll try again tomorrow . ’ |
5 | Erm what I 'm doing basically is er putting on as many exhibitions as I can using the centre 's name and making sure that I 've got a good amount of my work in there , although I do n't push anybody else out . |
6 | Yeah it 's like with me , I mean of course do n't forget that I 've got a good two hundred pounds to come on about the fifth of December from the British Legion 's savings . |
7 | ‘ Clients have to be — and are — aware that I 've got a young family and that if they ring me after 5pm there are likely to be children screaming for their tea in the background . ’ |
8 | It 's not wa with a microphone it 's just that I 've got a little socket for a microphone . |
9 | There was general approval that I 'd asked the right question — no one back in the newsroom realised how hard it had been . |
10 | On the day I left Woodline you knew that I 'd made an enormous mistake , yet you — ’ |
11 | I thought that I 'd created a new directory but I did n't . |
12 | I thought , I 'd like him to think that I 'd improved a little bit . |
13 | I explained that I 'd told the sleeping-car attendants that Zak wanted to use him in a scene . |
14 | Besides , despite the fact that I 'd got a good grade for my speech , I thought I 'd made a bit of a mess of it and was just relieved it was all over . |
15 | I became even more thankful that I 'd had a normal birth as it would have been so hard to cope after a repeat section . |
16 | I needed to be reassured that I had reached a hospitable culture … |
17 | A feeling that I had run a terrible risk and now everything was going to be all right . |
18 | The fact that I had adopted an alternative approach via traditional Chinese medicine was brushed aside as irrelevant . |
19 | As the years passed I discovered that I had developed a special school ‘ personality ’ which was a distortion of myself . |
20 | I told him that I had heard a great deal about his sister . |
21 | It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it . |
22 | In fact 31 of us turned up to support our annual ‘ big day out ’ and enabled me to realise that I had done the correct thing in cancelling the previously booked 20 seater coach . |
23 | However , I was in no doubt that I had done the right thing by leaving him . |
24 | I replied that it was not the first time , but that I had borne the previous occasions with courage and would do so now . |
25 | It was clear long afterwards that I had suffered a serious mental shock . |
26 | I conceded that it might have been wiser , and indeed more seemly , to have consulted her before a decision was reached ; but I did not add that I had advised the Prime Minister to agree to a meeting over her head because I was convinced that she would never accept a challenge to her authority . |
27 | As a consequence I really wish that I had spent the extra money and bought a slightly better machine . |
28 | It was not that I had abandoned the political book : it was that the mounting gravity of current events had turned my interests from theory to practice . |
29 | Immediately I was instructed that I had had the good fortune to be posted to ‘ the division where real polising is done … ’ |
30 | Driving to a knitting meeting with Bryan our Club President , I happened to mention that I had acquired an old Empisal 100 for knitting thicker yarns and slub cottons . |