Example sentences of "[vb past] i that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dank smell of the water was not unpleasant , and for years the scent of la Sologne that enveloped me that night would pierce my memory : a combination of stagnant water , slime , wild mushrooms , wispy dry grasses , sand and well-hung game . |
| 2 | I am so glad that the hon. Member for Derby , North asked me that question — |
| 3 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 4 | ‘ Me dad told me that story abaht Bobby Peel as a lesson . |
| 5 | Yeah , you told me that story |
| 6 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 7 | He three-putted the 14th , and then the television buggy came past on its way to the 15th , and the guys on board told me that Crenshaw — — who was nearest challenger then — had double-bogeyed 17 . |
| 8 | Nobody told me that bit . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's what poor Thomas told me that afternoon . |
| 10 | He told me that hair only shone after much combing , and that the same could be said of style . |
| 11 | My mother told me that Dad was on one of his frequent business trips to America and would be home in a couple of days . |
| 12 | At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died . |
| 13 | When you told me that night in Harcourt Street those things about your private life , honest to God , Stevie , I was not able to eat my dinner . |
| 14 | ‘ I picked it for you because Jeff told me that blue 's your favourite colour . ’ |
| 15 | One of the Tory MPs who supported him for the leadership of the party in 1990 told me that Michael Heseltine no longer had a political future . |
| 16 | ‘ You suspected that from the little you told me that morning at Coutances I had made investigations and found out something . ’ |
| 17 | I had no idea that it was Martin until you told me that morning . |
| 18 | ‘ When I was still involved with Vernons , we participated in the introduction of the lotteries in both New York and Sydney , and our experience then told me that football pools would be swept away should lotteries ever come to Britain . |
| 19 | Drummond once told me that Radio 3 broadcasts to about 30 minority tastes , each of which is characterised by its intense dislike of the other 29 . |
| 20 | One of the numerous girls in the film , Catherine Schell , told me that Lazenby was never difficult or temperamental . |
| 21 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
| 22 | She handed me that envelope , then took another from the briefcase . |
| 23 | But a friend , who arrived from Baghdad in the middle of February , informed me that morale is now high . |
| 24 | Derek Piggott , my instructor/demonstrator who has many hours on the Chevron , informed me that climb rate can be increased considerably by using thermal activity , and he showed very adequately the power off characteristics of the aircraft by stopping the engine and demonstrating the very impressive 17 to 1 glide ratio . |
| 25 | The Sergeant informed me that No. 46 Royal Marine Commando had come ashore in Normandy on D-Day + 1 and had gone into action almost straight away at a spot further along the coast from here , against a crack German S.S. Unit ( Hitler Youth ) . |
| 26 | 14.45 : Secretary informed me that Class Teacher had written a letter to parent of child with Head Lice to replace one written by Head . |
| 27 | The next day , some well-planted flowers and a nippy little spider that jumped quite considerable chasms to get to where it wanted to go showed me that juice was still to be had for Life and , quite soon after , I found bits of myself on a train looking out at the curious modern mixture of silver birch trees growing on slag heaps . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's six months since you first showed me that X-ray . |
| 29 | It showed me that d-i-y decorating and repairs need not always be so technical and difficult — and you do n't have to be a big strapping man to do d-i-y . |
| 30 | ‘ I knew for certain when you showed me that photograph , and I realised it was Gaston , not Fabien whose picture she had kept all those years . |