Example sentences of "that [vb past] i [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ And then there 's George Harrison on ‘ All Things Must Pass ’ , and The Stones ; I was a massive Stones fan , and like a lot of white middle-class American kids , it was The Stones that led me back into listening to a lot of early blues .
2 One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information .
3 No , it 's Greg and you that got me on to saying that .
4 These were the only things on the Sorrento that got me down ; at night they sallied from every crack and crevice and nibbled dead skin on the soles of my feet .
5 No I backed the first winner today and that got me out of trouble .
6 I ran across one the other day that lifted me up on wings of heady prose , only to plunge me into the deep end of bathos .
7 ‘ It must have been the noise that woke me up , ’ Jessamy retorted sarcastically .
8 Car , though that woke me up .
9 Was that that bloke that rang me up ?
10 In an interview shortly before his death , he said , ‘ I think it was these imaginings and wonderings to music — that sort of fantasizing to music — that started me off to wish to be a choreographer . ’
11 It was that phone call that sent me up the cul-de-sac .
12 But as the Air New Zealand 747–400 that brought me back home took off from Auckland International what came into my mind were the lines at the head of this article .
13 It was Stu 's persistence that wore me down .
14 So that put me off a bit .
15 So I signed , and then she said something that rocked me back on my heels .
16 There 's a landlord with a broken nose in Brighton , and a DHSS hostel that kicked me out .
17 Perhaps it was Nassim 's mention of the baby that sparked me off , however subconsciously .
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