Example sentences of "[that] i [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is funny , because all the Manson girls that I 've seen on film and stuff , when they talk about Charlie 's music they always say , he was great , he was as good as Tom Jones ! |
| 2 | You 're asking me to believe that I 've fallen in love with a nothing . ’ |
| 3 | It 's just , " said Adrian , " that I 've fallen in love . |
| 4 | and er , it helps me to , it 's only a hobby , you know , but er , it 's one that I 've had for donkey years , I want to er keep going with it as long as I can |
| 5 | But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’ |
| 6 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 7 | Although it would be mad to claim that I felt happy , my first feeling was one of cheer that I had escaped from prison . |
| 8 | Of course he was n't always there because frequently there were notes from his mother to say that he had earache or something , but later on I realized , of course , that those notes had been faked , the same as the notes that I had sent to school from my mother several generations before that . |
| 9 | Given that they had the ‘ weather works ’ that day in the shape of sleet , hail , wind and rain , whilst simultaneously a view of quite a lot of snow on Vesuvius , I was glad that I had stayed at home with a good book . |
| 10 | It was not with my reason that I had fallen in love with him and come to live with him , but it was with my reason that I was going to leave him . |
| 11 | ‘ The first time I met her , while I was working for him , I think she knew that I had fallen in love with him and yet she was kinder to me than anyone I 've ever known . |
| 12 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 13 | Those were the words that I had written for Antoinette ! |
| 14 | Major Hal , who met us on arrival , insisted that I had qualified for membership in the ‘ Short-Snorters ’ Club ’ . |
| 15 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 16 | He had such a talent for self-dramatisation that I would n't have put it past him , on finding that plunger , to have invented the whole thing — except that I had watched in horror as he deliberately forced the wretched mestizo over the edge , thrusting at his face with that dummy hand until he had disappeared into the gorge below . |
| 17 | In the debate on the Second Reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill , he gave what was in effect one of the best arguments against a single economic authority that I have heard in Parliament . |
| 18 | I have been interested in the number of representations that I have received from country areas and I see no reason why the Bill can not apply to villages , too . |
| 19 | Practically everything that I have said about borrowing is applicable to cash , in reverse . |
| 20 | Even of that first ecstatic experience with Mohammed in 1895 he would write much later , ‘ Every time since then that I have sought after pleasure , it is the memory of that night I have pursued ’ ( If It Die , 283 ) . |
| 21 | There are some recent lessons that I have learnt about prayer , and meditation . |
| 22 | I have found that the pupils designated as having moderate learning difficulties that I have worked with can : concentrate for long periods of time ; sustain protracted investigations ; be systematic ; reason logically ; find patterns and relationships ; make and test predictions ; generalise ; record and explain their findings . |
| 23 | I can then learn by its tic-tic that the robin is at my feet , judge by smell that I have trodden on thyme or bumped into a rosemary bush , and tell by touch that the leaf in my hand is comfrey and not common dock . |
| 24 | It does , however , hold the distinction of being the second-longest-running job that I have held to date . |
| 25 | But we now have erm following research by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust in relation to the document that I have described as appendix eight . |
| 26 | The most valuable of the representations that I have had on manufacturing industry is the excellent report from the manufacturing advisory group of the CBI , which hails the resurgence in manufacturing that began in the 1980s and calls on us to continue and to build on the policies that brought that about . |