Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt such a strong love for them that I planned to spend the rest of my life among them , and to try to become more like them . |
| 2 | I have placed in the Library a copy of the letter that I wrote explaining the issues in great detail . |
| 3 | My confidence suffered so much that I failed to reach the 50-wicket mark in three successive County Championship campaigns with Middlesex . |
| 4 | There was general approval that I 'd asked the right question — no one back in the newsroom realised how hard it had been . |
| 5 | So I kept telling Vivienne and Bernie that I 'd lost the keys to my locker . |
| 6 | It was inconceivable that I 'd lost the bag forever . |
| 7 | I 'd accepted that I 'd joined the club — and there were some really nice people in it . |
| 8 | I was so afraid tonight when you did n't show up that I 'd made the biggest mistake of my life in letting you go back to England without trying to extract a promise from you . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I thought it might have something to do with the fact that when it emerged that I 'd received the letter , Ivy Cook would become persona non grata in the Miletti family . ’ |
| 10 | I explained that I 'd told the sleeping-car attendants that Zak wanted to use him in a scene . |
| 11 | When I arrived , I found to my great irritation that I 'd forgotten the film . |
| 12 | Now that I 'd drawn the incident out from my unconscious , in much the same manner as Doctor Keylock or any of the so-called psychotherapists might have done , now that I 'd faced it , admitted it to myself , thought it all through without holding back from any of the horror of what happened that sunny afternoon seven years ago , I could see that , whoever 's fault the accident might have been , it certainly was n't mine . |
| 13 | Afterwards I could n't believe I had managed to say this ; I could n't believe that I 'd had the intelligence , the wit , the inspiration to come up with this perfect reply . |
| 14 | ‘ But it probably will surprise you to hear that I managed to resist the temptation to indulge my talent for marriage-wrecking and confined myself to one already divorced man and one bachelor . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ However , the good news is that I managed to find the switch for the air-conditioning . |
| 16 | Once again it was during some exchanges with colleagues from other establishments that I began to realise the significance of ‘ who is on your side ’ . |
| 17 | It was around that time that I began to foster the notion that information was being withheld , that somebody was not telling me everything . |
| 18 | It was then that I began to discover the fate that awaited me as a female . |
| 19 | It was only as we came in to Maidstone and I started looking for Hospital signs that I began to suffer the nervous Whirling Pits way down in my stomach . |
| 20 | It was then that I resolved to enjoy the rest of the year , accept that I simply did not have the talent to make the professional grade , and find a job . |
| 21 | It was on these - " moderate " walks that I came to appreciate the astonishing versatility of' the Dales , how inhospitably barren they can look from the brow of one hill , then how welcomingly like the gentle South Downs from the next ; how one village , little more than a pub and a row of stone cottages , might be as gaunt and forbidding as some remote Highland hamlet , while another will be so prettified and roses-round-the-door picturesque that , but for the backcloth of soaring hills or looming crags , and the uncoursed rubble walls wending like strips of children 's Plasticine up to the horizon , it could be in Mummerset . |
| 22 | ‘ It was a direct result of seeing the need for something different that could allow people to go out to sea no matter what the weather was like outside , that I went to see the lifeboat just over a year ago . ’ |
| 23 | I was doing some swift mental arithmetic , and the result was so crazy that I paused to rework the sums in my head . |
| 24 | Thank you to the person who arrived unknowingly on my doorstep and gave me a really sympathetic cuddle while I cried for 10 minutes ( ? ) in relief that I had misunderstood the doctor . |
| 25 | After what seemed an eternity , and was well over two hours , I felt the marsh ground underfoot change to shingle and knew that I had reached the shore . |
| 26 | He even seemed slightly grateful that I had raised the matter . |
| 27 | I was shaking so much that I had to lift the kettle with two hands when I staggered down the yard . |
| 28 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 29 | I realised , to my embarrassment , that I had eaten the equivalent of exactly half a cake . |
| 30 | I thought I 'd either holed my shot or that I had missed the green as well . ’ |