Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once we had begun to look at particular steps in the biochemical cascade in more detail , however , I became persuaded that reasonably specific inhibitors might help cast light on relevant mechanisms . |
| 2 | It is clear from everyone I asked to comment that I was not alone in thinking the evening was a resounding success . |
| 3 | Folk I met said that Cairns was changing fast . |
| 4 | Motherhood and dependence was the knot women 's liberation tried to untie , but the baby boom among many of the young , unemployed mothers I met suggests that , rather than these young women being in retreat , something more complex and contradictory is abroad . |
| 5 | I sought to prove that , if an aerodrome or transport park was the objective of an operation , then the destruction of 50 aircraft or units of transport was more easily accomplished by a sub-unit of five men than by a force of 200 men . |
| 6 | I failed to realise that you kiss so easily . |
| 7 | We 're off er well York this funny thing I got to see that it all goes through for my dad . |
| 8 | This was at Bangor and then I got another number and then I got told that they now have the direct organisation |
| 9 | On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day . |
| 10 | I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess . |
| 11 | ‘ Saving your presence sir , ’ said Sergeant Bramble , ‘ I tried to explain that there was nothing amiss and that you 'd be back in time for supper with Miss Nicole . |
| 12 | I tried to explain that you either had the vibe or you did n't , it was n't something that I could explain . ’ |
| 13 | I tried to explain that Miss Louise was always short with me when anyone called . |
| 14 | I tried to explain that no one 's really in . |
| 15 | If I tried to teach that here , I should get the sack . ’ |
| 16 | I tried to remember that , when my master punished me . |
| 17 | I tried to argue that the Criterion had neglected to pay enough attention to certain lines of contemporary thought , above all that represented by Collingwood . |
| 18 | In a lecture that I gave in Rome I tried to show that in spite of what Thomas Kuhn says ( which has been much exaggerated by his followers ) , you can not write the history of any branch of knowledge , whatever it may be , from a completely relativist point of view . |
| 19 | I promised to see that Constanza would get to Brussels on time , and he promised to take me behind the scenes of the art world . |
| 20 | Earlier , I mentioned discovering that I was the owner of an immune system . |
| 21 | It seems I , oh I seemed to feel that it , it was , if we wanted to see three it was gon na upset , well they seemed that , I thought it would save money if they |
| 22 | I seemed to recall that in the past when we 'd met we 'd got on reasonably well , so I assumed that it must have been something that Jennifer had told you that had turned you against me , or , failing that , that you were just embarrassed at having to work with your sister 's ex-fiancé . ’ |
| 23 | I seemed to think that I 'd seen scores of other holy pictures just like it ; God with his fingers held funny and always with one pointing upwards . |
| 24 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 25 | By the end of that first evening I 'd discovered that , however much of a rebel your younger sister might be , you were made of tougher , truer steel . ’ |
| 26 | This had occurred to me , but I 'd hoped that the attack had been random . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought I 'd explained that I 'm doing it because I want to . ’ |
| 28 | And , as soon as I 'd said that , I realised it was the wrong thing to have said . |
| 29 | Gareth 's ‘ BACK FOR GRUB ’ message was still pinned to the corkboard , and it was with a distinct sense of release that I remembered I 'd said that I would go back for his camera . |
| 30 | I 'd forgotten that I 'd said that , and was , in any case , already regretting the admission . |