Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [art] [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 Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 I was so angry that I wrote a furious letter to him accusing him of being un-Christian and ignorant , and also wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury , whom I also regard as ineffectual .
7 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 .
8 During my time as a gamekeeper it was essential that I knew the precise location of all these extended burrows .
9 It was not until I reached Redcar that I saw a Northern Echo placard lettered Death of King .
10 then I had another I had another wee problem that I 'd been , I had been to see , and it was Doctor I had been , and the doctor that I saw the last time er I had three big bruises on my back , and she
11 For example , how does it happen that I married a good Catholic at seventeen and here I am at thirty-something , childless ?
12 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 .
13 I could not be bled and have been dealt more than a hundred blows so that I got a thorough grinding . )
14 But it 's still the same , but it 's the pains that I got the last time that 's gon it 's like sharp pains that 's going round about , just the insides of the nipple .
15 I am sure that the Minister will recall that I said a few moments ago that in our view the role of regional government is not delivery of services .
16 Note that I added a minor 3rd ( C ) in this run to give it more of a country flavour !
17 He said : ‘ I was happy about my time but I have to admit that I walked the last two or three miles after I hit what they call ‘ the wall ’ .
18 ‘ I 've been on 10 or 11 tours in my career and it 's time that I spent a little while with my family .
19 Looking back on the elements I have enumerated — of change , internationalism and achievement — I do not find it so surprising that I chose an industrial career , although I knew nothing of all this when I joined ICI .
20 No-one else in our aircraft appeared to be the least bit concerned , but my relief as we finally drew near the coast of England again and then began our descent to the safety of solid earth was so great that I made a little promise to myself that I would never again set foot in an aeroplane , so long as I could be permitted to survive this one trip .
21 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 .
22 My story is similar to Annie 's in that I made the same mistake and thought of my granddaughter as a substitute child .
23 Point two is this , that I made the bottom border there er about be exactly five centimetres .
24 ‘ Then I found out that I came a poor second to the real love of her life — money .
25 Looking back , I can not imagine that I understood the finer points of the contract M. Chaillot placed before me .
26 It was only then that I noticed the small man seated in the armchair next to mine .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 It was when I was resting my hand on her flank to steady her that I noticed the little swelling under the skin .
30 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 .
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