Example sentences of "[that] i [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beesley 's case offered corroboration : the hero of the Titanic was a blanket-forger and transvestite imposter ; how just and appropriate , therefore , that I fed him false cricket scores . |
| 2 | It was much later that I realized my subconscious tendency towards preferring complicated solutions , merely to demonstrate my clever mental logic . |
| 3 | The monitoring process , until eventually I work out that I get my two sales . |
| 4 | It was then that I made my never-to-be-forgotten answer , ‘ Mum 's lost , down the fair . ’ |
| 5 | I was so disquieted by it that I finished it that evening . |
| 6 | It was through the OTC that I met my future husband , Eric , who was at that time a permanent staff instructor . |
| 7 | ‘ I am so sorry that I caused you such grief by acting as I did , by going off without telling anyone . |
| 8 | But it was not until 1990 that I had my first spawning , and raised fry . |
| 9 | But it was in Colchester Park that I had my first lesson in conservation in microcosm , if you like . |
| 10 | ‘ It was all thanks to a woman at the meeting today that I had my first inkling of what had really been going on . ’ |
| 11 | Later , he would tell Radio One 's Janice Long : ‘ I believed that I had my own work to do . |
| 12 | He 'd expected it , he added , since he noticed that I had my own plate and cup at work , and bought tea for whoever was sitting with me . |
| 13 | It was on the morning when registration began that I had my fatal encounter . |
| 14 | That I break his miserable china duck . |
| 15 | I won both the 60 and 200 metres , but it was in the final event , the relay , that I received my greatest fillip . |
| 16 | Safety pundits will be pleased to note that I received my just desserts that evening , on unpacking my rucksack and discovering that the action had mashed a forgotten egg sandwich into my hat . |
| 17 | It is with some trepidation that I mention our feathered friends — LARUS CANUS — the common gull . |
| 18 | You 've got ta stick to the same order that I showed you this morning , yeah ? |
| 19 | It was also in May that I started my new programme of intensive stretching exercises and aerobics . |
| 20 | The staff all know what 's got to be done and they go off and do it ; it 's just when jobs are different that I give them any guidance . |
| 21 | It would have been so easy and commonplace to move into some bushes ; but my partner insisted that I light my second candle . |
| 22 | And these words , that I command thee this day , shall be upon thy heart ; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children , and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house , and when thou walkest by the way , and when thou liest down , and when thou riseth up . |
| 23 | It is as a stranger that I greet my own self , and see it as an unknown fellow traveller through time . |
| 24 | Joan while I remember in my car I 've got some things that I want your professional advice about . |
| 25 | They also insisted that I sue their front door — and not my own — so that people had to go through their gallery . |
| 26 | ‘ Would you prefer that I do what some man should have done years ago ? |
| 27 | The right hon. Gentleman said : ’ That is a firm commitment , costed and clear that I pledge our Labour Government will carry out . ’ |
| 28 | It was only after moving to Llanberis that I did my next winter route in Wales — a quick solo of Sinister Gully . |
| 29 | He rubbed at his jaw and the back of his neck with the towel and said , ‘ I 'm not drunk , I was dog-tired , not that I owe you any explanation . |
| 30 | His correspondent had lately left the academic world for military service ; and with his own bookish situation , so detrimental to " independent thought " , Nietzsche contrasted and , in part , commended his friend 's active life : " … not that I applaud your present profession as such , bud only insofar as it is the negation of your previous life … |