Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Referring to complaining neighbours the Hanleys she said : ‘ I just do n't know how they can sleep at night next door because I could n't , knowing that I 'd done that to someone . ’
2 You see , I 'd mentioned the fact that I 'd seen this chap several mornings hanging about in the Cove , so I decided not to take Miss Celia down there for a bit , even though we were having a real Indian summer that year .
3 And he was obviously really furious that I 'd said that .
4 And I 'd know that I 'd incurred that expense .
5 He reminded me that I 'd predicted many , many things over the years and that so far nothing had come to anything apart from purely coincidental moves .
6 I reminded Brian that I 'd predicted this and that Frank must be going home .
7 I then was sent a letter telling me that I 'd passed this exam , I then had what 's known as a medical to check that I was okay , there was no , I had no faults or injuries or health problems .
8 ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’
9 I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train .
10 It was only to teach her a little lesson that I 'd added some nail-varnish remover to the ephedrine in that nasal spray she carried around everywhere .
11 ‘ Neither am I , querida , ’ he said slowly , ‘ but I wish that I 'd had those skills in Seville because it would have saved a lot of anguish .
12 This was the day when I decided that I 'd had enough .
13 I decided at that moment that I 'd had enough . ’
14 Eventually I decided that I 'd had enough .
15 I was er er there was something that I got told many years ago that I
16 It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off .
17 It was perhaps because of this , and because I tried to foster the whole idea of positive thinking , that I began to concentrate more and more on visualization .
18 I was pleased to be able to announce that I had followed many of their therapies , but fearfully expressed my alarm and disappointment that having religiously performed my visualizations , cancer may have returned by the back door .
19 ‘ It was for you that I had to leave that hotel suite and not return until daylight . ’
20 My personal and spiritual growth expanded into every area of my life , twenty-four hours a day , seven days a week , as I came to live more consciously in each and every moment — knowing that I had created that moment , and that it was an opportunity to grow .
21 I put it back , convinced that I had broken some serious law , hoping no one had noticed .
22 K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour .
23 And as it looked like Sasser had told Hurley something about me , Control passed the word that I had handled some contract work for the Defense Department in the past , just minor stuff , but that it was all finished now .
24 I went through the drill that I had taught many times to my students , and with a little sideslip brought John 's creation back to earth .
25 I felt that I had seen this movie before .
26 I leafed through the newspapers , glad that I had done those interviews .
27 And I also thought that I had conquered that Greek half of me .
28 There was one field in particular that I had made some good finds on and I had searched this piece of land time and time again .
29 And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course .
30 If I should cry , trying to express the inexpressible , that I had walked the wind with archangels , she would have been worried and annoyed ; and if I had gone on to say that I had forfeited those heights and lived now in an unremitting shadowless glare of exposure in a runnel of Hell , she would have feared for my mental health .
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