Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 2 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 3 | I dreamt that I went down those signless roads to the assembly of Leprechauns by a river of stars , and we embarked in an armada of fairy boats , and sailed till the dawn to an unimaginable sea . |
| 4 | It was n't until he called in at the vicarage and found the vicar shot , stabbed , strangled and poisoned that I gave up completely . |
| 5 | I asked Alan to fish the first drift , in order to settle down , and towards the end he suggested that I put up the dap . |
| 6 | When a friend suggested that I take up racing , my initial reaction was that at 42 I was too old . |
| 7 | He believed me and the next day suggested that I moved out . |
| 8 | Anyway Mr Kobold suggested that I press on to Manchester tonight . ’ |