Example sentences of "[adj] [that] i [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Finally , foreign museums started contacting the Ministry of Culture and asking if they could buy , let us say , a picture by Malévich or Popova , and then it became clear that I had the pictures . |
| 3 | This choice was helped to be made when one of them wrote me a nasty letter saying that it was clear that I wanted the other as my friend ( which , if I may say , was a lot of nonsense ) ! |
| 4 | And so it was quite accidental that I started the club . |
| 5 | To my astonishment the words came flooding back , and for some ten minutes , while the train lay cocooned in a web of silence and darkness , I continued my singing , grateful that I had the compartment to myself . |
| 6 | ‘ But it was just after that that I discovered the bleeding , and I 've been … |
| 7 | Like many others from the 1960s and before , I am fortunate that I missed the modern way and so view science as a richer and altogether more fulfilling experience . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | My sparrow had been lucky that I scared the cat off when I did . |
| 10 | It was only in 1960 that I saw the flaw in the argument . |
| 11 | I felt so good that I decorated the hall . |
| 12 | Suddenly I was sure that I knew the secret of life . |
| 13 | Even when I was a schoolboy I was able to disguise it because my parents made sure that I had the best of footwear specially made to build up my right foot without making it obvious that this was the case . |
| 14 | I knew that I wanted neither , but was n't sure that I had the strength or conviction to refuse them should they be prescribed . |
| 15 | honestly felt a wee bit nervous at the start just to make sure that I had the structure , that , that , I think that was the whole crux of the thing . |
| 16 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 17 | During my time as a gamekeeper it was essential that I knew the precise location of all these extended burrows . |
| 18 | Again , I am amazed that I accomplished the job so quickly seeing that most of the work was done at weekends . |
| 19 | Right alongside were the bows of a ship ; they seemed enormous and so close that I thought the bilge water would splash on our deck . |
| 20 | It was in the late summer of 1937 that I took the train to Newark , in Nottinghamshire , and paid a visit to Kelham , centre of the Community of the Resurrection . |
| 21 | The knowledge which I had acquired from the LCCIEB was so relevant that I enjoyed the course tremendously . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I think main that I had the chance to work with a very good choral society . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's true that I had the opportunity to be alone in the office , and we both know that I was angry and said a lot of things in the heat of the moment … but would I really be this vindictive ? ’ |