Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some of them figured that I played Headless Horseman on bass — y'know … the weirdest concepts ! |
| 2 | Just after I 'd finished at college , I went along to someone 's party and I remember telling this girl who I was chatting up that I played bass . |
| 3 | The mates that I played football with were skinheads into Blue Beat while the girls were into that pop group The Love Affair . |
| 4 | And it was then that I touched flesh . |
| 5 | And it was as I was standing like that , in the shadows some distance from where the two gentlemen sat amidst those rows of empty chairs , that I heard Lord Darlington talk about Herr Bremann , his voice as calm and gentle as usual , somehow resounding with intensity around those great walls . |
| 6 | to Coronation Street do not know all the facts of course , we are ignorant of the finer points of the time gone by , but why is Deirdre so lasted to Ken I 've yet to catch up with Wednesday night 's proceedings on my video contraption , but the last thing that I heard Deirdre say to Ken as he was recovering on a put-u-up in her front room was , I 'm stuck with you till you back on your feet and as far as I 'm concerned it ca n't come soon enough for me , Ken lay there immobile , stunned , a cruel carry on , what 's the poor chap done , but then I 've missed too much |
| 7 | He always publicly denied the label : ‘ It was because I hated realism that I wrote Madame Bovary . ’ |
| 8 | I would hope , obviously , that I wrote poems that could sometimes speak to the reader 's condition , and it would be too grandiose to say helped him to sort out his own feelings , but at least helped him to get a feeling of recognition and , if the poem is successful , you know , some kind of satisfaction that the feeling has been turned into that permanent form . |
| 9 | I had to admit that I envied Sam and Nolan . |
| 10 | I pointed out that I kissed Frankie but she dismissed my puzzlement . |
| 11 | ‘ How do you know that I knew Elise ? ’ he asked in a low voice . |
| 12 | He had heard that I knew Robert W. Service and felt it would be a ‘ good idea ’ if they could get Service to fly up and formally open the new building . |
| 13 | When I say that I saw Karen at the funeral , I mean that quite literally . |
| 14 | As I looked I was sure that I saw Boris , my bear , wink at me . |
| 15 | Nothing moved inside except out of the corner of my eye I was sure that I saw Boris winking . |
| 16 | It was about two weeks later that I saw Clive again . |
| 17 | I believe that that was the only occasion , in both public and private , that I saw Eliot not to his best advantage . |
| 18 | It was rare that I saw people , though now and then I came across sheep and goats being herded by children — boys in night-shirts or girls in blue gingham , every dress made from the same roll of cloth . |
| 19 | And one day I will say that I saw Erika Nordern , say that I coached her . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't suppose it 's important , but I thought I ought to tell you that I saw Mr Riddle on Friday evening . ’ |
| 21 | It is with interest , that I read Amanda Archibald 's recently published notes of her thoughts as a U.K. citizen , now living and working in the U.S.A. By all accounts , she has been profoundly impressed , and she has done a good job in introducing ‘ Contact ’ readers to some of the many positive aspects of living as an expatriate in the U.S.A. As a person proud to enjoy dual nationality of Canada and England , however , I should like to redress the balance somewhat , and question some of Amanda 's blanket statements . |
| 22 | The book-list also shows that I read Virginia Woolf , Aldous Huxley , Samuel Butler , Maxim Gorki , Henry James , Samuel Beckett , and so on . |
| 23 | It was with interest that I read Audrey Haagensen 's letter in the September issue of The Artist , saying she was the owner of a 1938 edition of your magazine . |
| 24 | It seems to me that I wore glasses before I wore zinc and castor oil cream . |
| 25 | It seems to me that I wore glasses before I wore zinc-and-castor-oil cream . |
| 26 | mind you , not that I 'd lite , the fire , not the glow that 's what you did one night put the |
| 27 | I 'd said to Mr Palmer in 1960 after St Andrews that I 'd caddie for him anywhere . |
| 28 | Now I found that I got results that way . |
| 29 | Did you know , for instance , that I led Birdman on Kilnsey Crag , or that I spent several days top-roping and practising Zero on Idwal 's Suicide Wall ? |
| 30 | He treats both subjects with a wit which is lucid and ambiguous at one and the same time , so that I recalled Charles Lamb 's remark about the possibility of obscurity through too much meaning . |