Example sentences of "that [verb] i [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time they came forward , you expected something to happen ( perhaps It was sitting in the north bank with the Cockney scum that made me think this ! ! ) . |
| 2 | That was the obsession that made me write this . ’ |
| 3 | I stayed wooden , afraid of the power that let me say those words ; afraid to hold him too hard or too close . |
| 4 | In the years that followed I made many flights with those ‘ intrepid bush pilots ’ and watched the development of aviation in Canada . |
| 5 | Over the weeks that followed I noticed more of them . |
| 6 | More important to me was the need to obey this instinct that warned me to put some distance between us . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I knew there were only seconds to go and could feel my strength failing with each moment , and a drifting kind of sleep coming on me which whispered , ‘ Give up , Minch , give up … ’ and it was only the knowledge that I was of Callanish , the greatest of the sites , that kept me fighting those few more seconds . |
| 8 | And it is only the love of Christ in me that enables me to say that . |
| 9 | I can only tell you that had I done that … |
| 10 | And that 's when I felt that I wished I had of went for a career in the trade union or I felt that had I done that , I would have been satisfying something that was there . |
| 11 | In the remarks that follow I offer some answers to these questions , make some scattered observations about how these answers relate to concerns about the environment , and indicate where my own sympathies lie . |
| 12 | All the time you ought to be asking yourself : " why should anyone believe what I am writing ? " and " what have I noticed in the text or in background , contextual materials that makes me think this ? " |
| 13 | The only thing that makes me doubt that is that the general proposition underlying it appears to have received some incoherent support from the Leader of the Opposition . |