Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 After you calmly tell me that I walked through a fucking wall ! ’
2 I repeat a proposition that I made to a previous Leader of the House .
3 He laughed back when I told him that I came from a poor barrio in Britain and that we were no longer referred to as people either .
4 Despite the fact that I succumbed to a mild form of food-poisoning through eating at the cheapest restaurants — a meal could he obtained for ten ( old ) francs or less , but less meant the more chance of prostration — I have never known Paris so surpassingly beautiful as that year .
5 To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me .
6 I was so overjoyed with the diagnosis that I celebrated with a huge meal , a bottle of champagne and a large cigar .
7 I was , however , systematic about the 30 or so in-depth interviews that I conducted on a random sample basis by allocating each member of the movement in Britain a number which had an equal chance of being selected from a book of numbers especially prepared for such purposes .
8 It was in September 1953 that I arrived as a new boy at Woolverstone Hall School and it may be that Ray was also new to the school .
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