Example sentences of "that [noun sg] [vb past] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't buy that jumper did I , Mikila , cos it 's not very |
| 2 | That bit made me think even then . |
| 3 | I do n't frighten easy , but that geezer frightened me . |
| 4 | That 's all that Christian offered me when I went up there to lay out that poor young wife of his . |
| 5 | That bike took me all over the place . |
| 6 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 7 | That episode made me quickly learn how to repair a puncture and from that time on I always carried a repair outfit . |
| 8 | I think the shock of that recognition drove me a little crazy myself . |
| 9 | That was my auntie and that was the l the woman who gave me that tea set I were telling you about . |
| 10 | Would you believe that the sight of her in that condition made me feel differently about her ? |
| 11 | Well I shall go because if that fella 's been from , if that fella said I did n't have a job I 'll be jumping up and down like a what d' ya call it ! |
| 12 | It was that angel put me right . |
| 13 | ‘ That boy scratched me deeply . ’ |
| 14 | A boy came out and looked at me , a bit suspicious , and I felt a fool , but that boy took me back thirty years . |
| 15 | Well when I went to Citizen 's Advice tha that lady said I do n't think it 's viable to have four dogs in a semi- detached anyway ! |
| 16 | Perhaps it was n't that loneliness chose me , but that I chose it , proudly wrapping myself in it , like a cloak against the pollution of the world . |
| 17 | I 'll admit that hearing about that sermon gave me a cowardly frisson of fear . |
| 18 | For the next fourteen days I spent all the daylight hours either on the forest road , on which no-one but myself ever set foot , or in the jungle , and only twice during that period did I get near the tigress . |
| 19 | And then when that job finished I started with . |
| 20 | ‘ I was employed , sir , ’ said the captain , ‘ on secret orders , and to sail this ship where that gentleman ordered me to sail it . |
| 21 | That bicycle gave me so much joy for many years . |
| 22 | That knowledge made me feel good . |
| 23 | Hints that merry muses were at work on Woman 's Hour that day made me re-tune the tranny to FM to catch the results . |
| 24 | One of the stories , maybe , that Maman told me when I was small . |
| 25 | That offer gave me a lifeline . |
| 26 | My life lay away from them now , and the problems I had brought to work with me that morning reclaimed me with redoubled urgency . |
| 27 | Half an hour after that was taken , that cheetah bit me through the calf … |
| 28 | ‘ Chris , I really did n't know who to turn to ; and that voice made me shiver . |
| 29 | ‘ Actually , that voice reminded me of a certain warrior queen , so tell me — who the hell was it ? ’ |
| 30 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |