Example sentences of "[prep] that [adj] [noun sg] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So if you was me , what would you think about that happy-birthday message I got ? ’ |
| 2 | As I thought about that perceptive question I realised its implications . |
| 3 | During that short pause I am vulnerable unless I draw booster power from our Titan 's plasma reactor and opt for maximal fire . |
| 4 | During that last sentence I was at Styal again and then at Askham Grange . |
| 5 | During that painful walk I managed to work out the general outline of these pages . |
| 6 | If I have a shade card for that particular yarn I write the tension on that too , to save me the bother of knitting another tension swatch when I next come to use the yarn . |
| 7 | ‘ For that gracious apology I 'll allow you to get up for dinner tonight . ’ |
| 8 | But when she came up to me after that third seminar I was so shocked and embarrassed that I could barely speak . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , all in a day 's work , but I must add that after that little fiasco I decided to join a more conventional hotel group and enjoyed the civilized calm of the Savoy for a while . |
| 10 | A cabin cruiser was chugging down the wide brown river towards that little harbour I 'd seen , and over the other side the bank was so steep that the rows of terraced houses were leaning over each other to get a view . |
| 11 | It does not efface the picture I have of that young cripple I carried ten miles before me on my horse , she mad with pain , blistered from her shoulders to her temple ; and the cloying smell of her burns is there now in my nostrils . |
| 12 | By the end of that first evening I 'd discovered that , however much of a rebel your younger sister might be , you were made of tougher , truer steel . ’ |
| 13 | By the end of that second night I never wanted to see a chip again . |
| 14 | Well , Mrs. Jewkes , if it were not for the thought of that cursed parson I believe in my heart , so great is my weakness , that I could yet forgive this intriguing little slut and take her to my bosom . |
| 15 | So if you go back to the sort of where we gave it five or six headings yeah or three to six headings you should be aiming say well I 'll input a bit of information on that side of it and at the end of that little section I 'll build in some practice in participation and the participation can be any of those ones you 've put in there on that list you gave us early on er practical allocations |
| 16 | ‘ I was rather wondering , Uncle , ’ he smiled at the man who had kept a fatherly eye on him from the age of ten , ‘ how you felt about serving some of that excellent champagne I know you have in your cellar . ’ |
| 17 | In defence of that same honesty I think he could be shrewd enough , and ruthless enough , too . |
| 18 | fucking er it was like that but they ai n't just do n't go and get very close to the like that So I 've gone up under arch of the wheel got my like that right state I got in ! |
| 19 | Well you were n't like that last time I saw you |
| 20 | Against that general background I now consider the detailed statutory provisions relating to administrative receivers . |
| 21 | I believed that with that double victory I had now achieved more than most in British athletics , with the exceptions of course , of Coe , Cram and Ovett . |
| 22 | All along that awful journey I 'd been tortured by the thought that someone might have found and moved the dinghy and that I would be trapped in this hellish marsh . |
| 23 | ‘ From that first time I met you . |
| 24 | ‘ From that first moment I felt like his mother . |
| 25 | From that small beginning I noted down quotations that I found meaningful , prayers that I found helpful to my spiritual life , occasionally writing a prayer that almost wrote itself after a meditation . |
| 26 | ‘ From that untidy bush I will make a fine bird , ’ she said . |
| 27 | I laced my arms round his back , under his own arms , letting his face fall on mine , and in that awkward position I blew my own breath into him , not in the accepted way with him lying flat with most things in control , but into his open nostrils , into his flaccid mouth , into either or both at once , as fast as I could , trying to pump his chest in unison , to do what his own intercostal muscles had stopped doing , pulling his ribcage open for air to flow in . |
| 28 | In that same year I was posted to South Shields on the south bank of the River Tyne and quickly became aware that I had an enormous burden to carry , simply because I had spent all of my previous service on ‘ the other side of the river ’ . |
| 29 | Whether it was that in that heightened state I had a premonition of what was to follow , or was simply recalling Dennis 's corpse-like stupor in the next room , I felt a perverted thrill , as though I were desecrating the most holy altar of all . |
| 30 | I understood that pantun was a form of Malayan poetry , and could not grasp how this might annihilate anything ; but , as he continued , I began to see — or I thought in that dazed state I saw that he believed all human perceptions to be governed by words and , indeed , distorted and ultimately betrayed by words . |