Example sentences of "[adv] that i [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some places there were nagging clouds of black flies , so that I climbed through the trees like a new Orestes , cursing and slapping . |
| 2 | It was some time after ten o'clock that I strolled through the gate on to the terrace . |
| 3 | Not that I approve of the way some of the young people were dressed today . |
| 4 | It was not that I objected to the public baths . |
| 5 | It is not that I inferred from the resemblance in shape that it was a man , until I began to doubt I was not thinking about it at all . |
| 6 | It was not until years later that I heard about the societies known as Buffaloes and Foresters . |
| 7 | It was to be many years later that I learned of the strictures Tata had accepted once he had proposed marriage to my mother , a Roman Catholic . |
| 8 | ‘ I shall also be reviewing the way we get independent advice , so that the public will be able to see absolutely clearly that I act on the best possible evidence , without fear or favour . ’ |
| 9 | You could say roughly that I deal with the bank , and they look after the stream . " |
| 10 | Indeed , now that I know about the Marmite and the teenage sons it seems more mysterious than ever . |
| 11 | On the second part , well nobody feels more strongly that I do about the problems of noise pollution and I agree entirely there er with what councillor has to say but may I remind members that this council did have a full service for a six months period , you all seem to have forgotten that , we did have a full service , an experimental one which ran for six months , er we were advised by the officers at the end of that period it was not necessary to run the full seven day a week service , it was not necessary we are still being advised that that is not necessary , that is the advice we were given at the last committee meeting and er the majority of members supported that . |
| 12 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 13 | Indeed , it was watching television recently that I came to the conclusion that what the Lord 's Day Observance Society needs is a good PR man . |