Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [that] i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 2 | On the other hand , it was on this condition that I joined your company : you agreed that should your business ever go public , I would have fifteen per cent of the equity for the nominal sum of fifteen thousand pounds . |
| 3 | It was through this involvement and my direct experience of lesbian oppression that I found myself wanting to be a part of creating a new lesbian feminist identity along with other lesbian sisters . |
| 4 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 5 | It was at this moment that I decided I must learn to dance , so that I could stay on at the pensione instead of roaming about . |
| 6 | And so it was in the light of this suspicion that I examined my friend 's body and my own . |
| 7 | And s some suggestions that I said I 'd put forward to Janet about streamlining nominations and so on . |
| 8 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 9 | You see and that al old aunt that I told you about she always referred this road through as the new road . |
| 10 | It was only when friends accused me of being a pompous , humourless prat that I realised it was meant as a joke . |
| 11 | I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
| 13 | They 're only some letters that I thought your mother would like to have ! ’ |
| 14 | It was during this visit that I realized what people must have gone through simply to immigrate to the United States . |
| 15 | I was at this time that I renewed my acquaintance with Herbert Read , whom I had met first at Oxford in the company of Nevill Coghill . |
| 16 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 17 | Nor was it mere coincidence that I arranged my holiday for a special part of September . |
| 18 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 19 | No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago . |
| 20 | The wireless and the cinema gave me such enjoyment that I decided I 'd become an actor , a film star . |
| 21 | It was n't until my second year that I told anything like the truth about my father . |
| 22 | Carson was such an affable chap that I persuaded him to agree with me ( and Alf ) to continue along progressive lines . |
| 23 | I think it was Angie and Tony , going back to that incredible support that I told you about when I first met them , that they were also dreamers and had such faith and believed in David 's future and his destiny . |
| 24 | I thought for an incredible moment that I caught something familiar in the sound — but it could n't be . |
| 25 | It was when we had settled down to talk in comfortable armchairs that I told him that the man for whom I had substituted at Marlborough , in the hope of replacing him altogether , now planned to return , so that once more I should be out of a job . |
| 26 | But at the time I was so excited by my good luck that I forgot what I owed to Joe . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
| 29 | The working party on Equal Opportunities that I said I would convene ? |
| 30 | My girlfriend , after my eleven-month absence , had understandably left me , and it was in the company of my two still-faithful black cats that I threw myself into writing . |