Example sentences of "that i [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's rather like the scene that I penned at the beginning of this column . |
| 2 | If , no matter how randomly you threw matter around , the resulting conglomeration could often be said , with hindsight , to be good for something , then it would be true to say that I cheated over the swallow and the whale . |
| 3 | " Since we were n't being shown any buffalo , " replied the senator , smiling easily , " we bagged a muntjac that I spotted on the plain — for one of our smaller groups . " |
| 4 | This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement . |
| 5 | I remember very well from the moment that I fell from the boat and felt my feet strike some soft substance . |
| 6 | Sir — It was with deep sadness that I heard of the death of Fred Daly , to date the only Irish winner of The Open . |
| 7 | Suppose that I point at a chair and say ‘ By ‘ chair ’ I mean that ’ , nothing in what I have done creates the desired meaning for the word ‘ chair ’ unless I can further characterise what it is about the object I am pointing to that I am taking as relevant ; for example , I might say ‘ that sort of furniture ’ , and this would improve matters , but I have to have the concept of furniture first . |
| 8 | It is against that background that I return to the conclusion of the majority of the Court of Appeal that the mere fact that Wickes might be able to advance such an argument founded upon article 30 , which was at least not a groundless argument , compelled the Court of Appeal to require an undertaking in damages from the council . |
| 9 | I believe that the spending levels that we are now seeing , through the new scheme that I announced in the summer , vindicate the judgment I made because the £17 million that was spent in the two years of the initial scheme represents an average spend of £8.5 million . |
| 10 | ‘ I realise that I come into the picture as a relative , and I do feel natural interest and concern for my great-uncle . |
| 11 | I 'm not er a great fan of the monarchy , although that I would say that I come from a family which is , devoted a large portion of it 's life in service and work to the royal family . |
| 12 | But I do n't think there were any anyone that I knew on the railway were not against nationalization . |
| 13 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 14 | He recommended that I go to a hospital and see a psychiatrist . |
| 15 | Their reasoning — that ‘ when all safeguards are respected and the best interests of the patient are taken into account , it is certainly not murder ’ — parallels the apparent logic behind the Soviet cleansing of antisocialist elements , the Indian practice of murder/suicide of widows , and the infanticide that I observed among the Tsamai in south-west Ethiopia . |
| 16 | Tt and er one of the passages that I read during the service , is this one , psalm a hundred . |
| 17 | One of my constituents that I read in the newspaper about the erm , the green way in which the party should be moving , and said that erm , he would like me to express my disquiet to and I thought this , perhaps this would be quite a useful place to his disquiet , but Council tax money is being spend on this sort of erm , work when there are far more urgent erm , services needed in the County , and he would much rather have the highways , er , money from , which is now going into the Environment to go into highways , erm , so as er , Chairman council , I 'm passing his comments on to you , through this committee . |
| 18 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 19 | Now that my sons are becoming more independent , I have time for myself and confidence in middle age that I lacked as a youngster . |
| 20 | It seems that I count as a visitor . ’ |
| 21 | I give all the children vitamin drops that I get from the clinic but I sometimes wonder whether they 're really necessary . |
| 22 | How long ago was it that I looked on the world with such innocent eyes ? |
| 23 | What really struck me was that I looked like a concentration camp prisoner . |
| 24 | One day , in one of these tiny streets , with shops on either side and with stalls of street vendors in front of them , the way was so crowded that I got to a place where it was impossible to move . |
| 25 | It 's a piece of pipe that I got at a plumbing supply place ; I bought a twelve foot piece of pipe and had it cut into pieces a little over an inch long . |
| 26 | This meant that I got into the Library . |
| 27 | But I was surprised that I got round the room , cos I 'm awful at remembering names I think I 'm gon na have to try and |
| 28 | And then the other one is the one that I got from the library by Luhmann . |
| 29 | ‘ The important thing is that I got in a couple of block tackles , which was significant . |
| 30 | May I draw my right hon. Friend 's attention to the delegation that I led to the Lord Chancellor to consider the problem of bail bandits and light sentencing by Crown courts , and to the concern in my constituency that the Hampshire police authority is short changing the Isle of Wight in terms of the number of constables on the beat ? |