Example sentences of "[that] i [vb past] the [adj] " 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 | As I recall , then , it was only an hour or so after being first entrusted with the mission that I noticed the young Mr Cardinal alone in the library , sitting at one of the writing tables , absorbed in some documents . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was when I was resting my hand on her flank to steady her that I noticed the little swelling under the skin . |
| 14 | I am delighted that it has now decided to co-operate with the Government and solve a problem that I brought the regional affairs committee of the European Parliament over to look at 14 years ago . |
| 15 | I announced such a review at a conference that I addressed the other day . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ But it was just after that that I discovered the bleeding , and I 've been … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was not until I had been in the camp some days that I learnt the full story of the past . |
| 20 | So you could test your theory that I killed the old woman . ’ |
| 21 | They form a national network and it is from their conference statement that I took the above quotations . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So vivid was his description that I suggested the only kindness would be to put the nag down before the race . |
| 24 | ‘ Where 's your proof that I lit the slow fuse ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Not that I minded the actual going , as it were . |
| 27 | He would far rather that I acted the good housewife instead . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ! |