Example sentences of "that i [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was probably this occasion which prompted Lloyd George to write of Balfour : ‘ I confess that I underrated the passionate attachment to his country which burnt under that calm , indifferent , and apparently frigid exterior ’ ; upon which Balfour 's latest biographer has somewhat severely commented : ‘ By ‘ passionate attachment to his country , ’ Lloyd George , presumably meant Balfour 's backing for him as Prime Minister … ’
2 It was , especially , upon retiring to bed late in the night of the seventh or eighth day after the placing of the Lady Madeline within the donjon , that I experienced the full power of such feelings .
3 I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way .
4 For I have not bothered to tell her that I spotted the blasted thing on our drive back from Bournemouth to London , lurking in a lay-by .
5 Last year , so piqued was I by this , that I plunged the outsize handbag of an excessively bossy senior stewardess from Central Office into a fire-bucket of water on the grounds that it could have contained an incendiary device .
6 During my time as a gamekeeper it was essential that I knew the precise location of all these extended burrows .
7 It was only when telling someone about the finale , weeks later , that I realized the unconscious pun of ‘ Sayer Little Prayer ’ and he washed over me all over again .
8 at this stage that I made the unconscious decision , later to manifest itself in physiological terms , to postpone sexuality until I felt myself ready to cope with it .
9 Point two is this , that I made the bottom border there er about be exactly five centimetres .
10 It was only then that I noticed the small man seated in the armchair next to mine .
11 It was only as we were doing this and grinning inanely at each other that I noticed the red Transit van turning out of the other end of the street .
12 I announced such a review at a conference that I addressed the other day .
13 I got remanded twice , then I got probation on condition that I attended the Winterborn Unit , a mental hospital near Oxford , as a day patient .
14 I am still rather surprised that I had the good sense for once in my life to follow my hunch and come and see you .
15 It was not until I had been in the camp some days that I learnt the full story of the past .
16 So you could test your theory that I killed the old woman . ’
17 It was through the need to obtain money for this that I took the part-time job with Mrs Morton and her husband , Weary Willy .
18 So vivid was his description that I suggested the only kindness would be to put the nag down before the race .
19 ‘ Where 's your proof that I lit the slow fuse ?
20 I think that I accused the hon. Gentleman of being a member of the Tribune group , which was then a significant force in the Labour party .
21 Not that I minded the actual going , as it were .
22 He would far rather that I acted the good housewife instead .
23 But very often I think tabloid journalism is interesting in terms of language because it 's very punchy it 's succinct because i i in some of our terms you might find people into a three minute reader and a thirty minute reader because in attention span and intellectual capacity are quite different but to actually condense something into meaningful short bursts , even if they are politically biased actually requires a certain amount of skill I would suspect the clarity index which I ca n't find is the process that I mentioned the other night where you take erm some people call it the fog index a correct me if I 'm wrong in my figures , but I think it 's a piece of something like two hundred or three hundred words you count the number of suc erm colons and full stops or is it only full stops ?
24 Daniel 's story certainly confirmed to me that I did the right thing — and that I should have done it years ago , if only for my children 's sake .
25 That was the year that we first went into Canada and I remember that I picked the Canadian franchise because she did n't war a bra !
26 It was near here , at roughly four o'clock on the green , that I placed the small house where the two friends Ella and Dimity lived amicably together for a number of years .
27 Since it was on 11th February in 1984 that I published the Apostolic Letter Salvifici Doloris on the Christian meaning of human suffering , I believe it is significant that the same day is set for the celebration of the ‘ World Day of the Sick ’ .
28 It was at this point that I came face to face with the realisation that human beings could be studied like other animals , and I went on , past chimpanzees , to investigate the behaviour of this strange creature that I christened The Naked Ape .
29 For it was with Mme Deloche that I discussed the little book I had started putting together in Paris : Cooking with Difficulty .
30 I tried an abortive term at Durham University Drama Department and that made me realise even more that I wanted the real thing ; by then I had , in any case , worked the AIM stint and I did n't need theory ; I wanted practice .
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