Example sentences of "that i [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she insisted that I apply leeches to her son I could not have felt more disturbed , more unwilling to assist at this medieval rite . |
| 2 | ‘ I really do think , ’ she murmured mischievously , ‘ that I deserve correction . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Some of them figured that I played Headless Horseman on bass — y'know … the weirdest concepts ! |
| 4 | Just after I 'd finished at college , I went along to someone 's party and I remember telling this girl who I was chatting up that I played bass . |
| 5 | The mates that I played football with were skinheads into Blue Beat while the girls were into that pop group The Love Affair . |
| 6 | And it was then that I touched flesh . |
| 7 | And it was as I was standing like that , in the shadows some distance from where the two gentlemen sat amidst those rows of empty chairs , that I heard Lord Darlington talk about Herr Bremann , his voice as calm and gentle as usual , somehow resounding with intensity around those great walls . |
| 8 | to Coronation Street do not know all the facts of course , we are ignorant of the finer points of the time gone by , but why is Deirdre so lasted to Ken I 've yet to catch up with Wednesday night 's proceedings on my video contraption , but the last thing that I heard Deirdre say to Ken as he was recovering on a put-u-up in her front room was , I 'm stuck with you till you back on your feet and as far as I 'm concerned it ca n't come soon enough for me , Ken lay there immobile , stunned , a cruel carry on , what 's the poor chap done , but then I 've missed too much |
| 9 | He always publicly denied the label : ‘ It was because I hated realism that I wrote Madame Bovary . ’ |
| 10 | I would hope , obviously , that I wrote poems that could sometimes speak to the reader 's condition , and it would be too grandiose to say helped him to sort out his own feelings , but at least helped him to get a feeling of recognition and , if the poem is successful , you know , some kind of satisfaction that the feeling has been turned into that permanent form . |
| 11 | Well , I think that I bore people endlessly by saying that erm , the first half results are not an indication of the year as a whole because we make the bulk of our pro profits in the second half and you know , that remains , that remains true . |
| 12 | ‘ The dear man knows that I collect swans , ’ she explained to Merrill and Richard , ‘ and he left it on the hall table with my name on a label around its neck . |
| 13 | Not that I welcome change ; I was very satisfied as things were but it was obvious they would n't go on indefinitely . ’ |
| 14 | If the truth were known , it is only because I have for so long been lonely that I welcome demands for help . |
| 15 | I had to admit that I envied Sam and Nolan . |
| 16 | However , he then says that he has continued the work of John XXIII with such fidelity that , ‘ if anything , the criticism that I lack initiatives of my own would be nearer the mark ’ ( Notizario , 13 , pp. 15–16 ) . |
| 17 | I pointed out that I kissed Frankie but she dismissed my puzzlement . |
| 18 | ‘ Ca n't you handle the fact that I prefer Callum 's company to yours ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ How do you know that I knew Elise ? ’ he asked in a low voice . |
| 20 | He had heard that I knew Robert W. Service and felt it would be a ‘ good idea ’ if they could get Service to fly up and formally open the new building . |
| 21 | When I say that I saw Karen at the funeral , I mean that quite literally . |
| 22 | As I looked I was sure that I saw Boris , my bear , wink at me . |
| 23 | Nothing moved inside except out of the corner of my eye I was sure that I saw Boris winking . |
| 24 | It was about two weeks later that I saw Clive again . |
| 25 | I believe that that was the only occasion , in both public and private , that I saw Eliot not to his best advantage . |
| 26 | It was rare that I saw people , though now and then I came across sheep and goats being herded by children — boys in night-shirts or girls in blue gingham , every dress made from the same roll of cloth . |
| 27 | And one day I will say that I saw Erika Nordern , say that I coached her . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't suppose it 's important , but I thought I ought to tell you that I saw Mr Riddle on Friday evening . ’ |
| 29 | And she says now you know and Raymond knows that I bring David |
| 30 | Excuse my ignorance , but living in the ‘ plains ’ of the US makes it very hard to keep up with English soccer ( er , football ! ) especially Leeds a team that I 've benn supporting for close to 20 years now . |