Example sentences of "[vb past] i [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presently he drew me aside to suggest that if I would like to give him a certain sum his wife and daughter would go immediately and prepare a gypsy supper . |
| 2 | It pleased me immeasurably to know that he could sense the difference now , the promise of fulfilment , which would be the sweeter , it seemed to me , for having been so long deferred . |
| 3 | Although I had wanted to go away and agreed to go away , when the time came I also felt that I was being pushed out of the nest , and that my parents were glad to be rid of me , in that there would be one fewer person to cater for . |
| 4 | control contacted me yesterday to say that erm due to loss of system last week , and the fact that the Easter weekend erm is looming up on us , it means that they 've , they 've got insufficient time to run all the jobs that they needed to erm in the space that they , they would like to run them in . |
| 5 | Anyone in the city who knew me also knew that I could be found there , at some time every night , if I was on the planet . |
| 6 | I was being utterly foolish ; my duty was to stay on , do A-levels , and go on to Oxford or Cambridge ( which took an extra term ) ; the local grammar school was not good enough to fulfil this latter purpose and if I went there , I would only be throwing my education away ; and , besides , did I not realise that , in the face of difficulties , one should never give up , but struggle on and thus establish a superior strength of character ? |
| 7 | ‘ Did I not say that he was a good secretary ? ’ |
| 8 | But the whole experience left me ruefully feeling that it had perhaps been a mistake to publish a report about them . |
| 9 | so she said erm , erm , I said I only understand that he fell out of bed last night , so she said yes but he 's quite comfortable now , I said is he , is he really ? |
| 10 | So we swapped addresses with er , ca n't remember , it was a man middle-aged sort of man and er he then said ooh , well he said I still think that we were in the right in as much as if that policeman was supposed to have been directing traffic blah blah blah blah blah ! |
| 11 | It upset me really to think that I just was n't interested . |