Example sentences of "[art] fact that [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think for me I love erm er er er I love a challenge , and er I suspect the fact that before I went into it people said it was erm something which was erm absolutely impossible er er and that the their was no way that one could make a go of it erm made it made it made it perhaps all the more challenging to try to prove them wrong . |
| 2 | I knew he loved and needed me , but the fact that while I washed up , scrubbed , cleaned and tidied for us both he was making contact with people I had never met , would never meet , and whose names I did not know , formed a cloud over my days . |
| 3 | What with Mrs Clements and the girls also gone for the week , I suppose I was very conscious of the fact that once I departed , Darlington Hall would stand empty for probably the first time this century — perhaps for the first time since the day it was built . |
| 4 | This was due , no doubt , to the fact that though I motored further and further from the house , I continued to find myself in surroundings with which I had at least a passing acquaintance . |
| 5 | Thing I do n't approve of is the fact that when I ask questions |
| 6 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |