Example sentences of "[that] i [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was not until I saw how Messer Bartolomeo 's news was received by your friends that I realised its importance for you . ’ |
| 2 | But you who knew me , pass on these words : that I squandered my youth for my country , that while the ship was fighting I kept to my post up in the cross trees and , when she sank-I went down with her . ’ ’ |
| 3 | It 's not so much that , it 's that I prefer my cooking to your cooking . |
| 4 | We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently . |
| 5 | The bat flitted so low that I saw its silhouette for a brief moment against the Milky Way . |
| 6 | None of my previous assistants has ever suggested that I change my style of management , and I can assure you that I have no intention of starting now . |
| 7 | In the same way that I doubt your power of judgement . |
| 8 | It was during my visit that I made my acquaintance with Woolworths and thought it a marvellous store with goods that were priced at either 3d or 6d ; the firm did not arrive in Salisbury until 1927 . |
| 9 | I remember that I left my bag on the table for a few minutes at coffee time in the afternoon . ’ |
| 10 | You may , perhaps , have thought that I put my point of view too emphatically to you on a matter on which you hold strong views , whereas I am not a partisan on the question of the death penalty . |
| 11 | cos there 's a little coffee table sort of thing that I put my script on |
| 12 | I welcomed the Mozartean Players ' disc of the two Mozart Piano Quartets ( ) with open arms and I must say that I like their set of the Trios even more . |
| 13 | Nor was it mere coincidence that I arranged my holiday for a special part of September . |
| 14 | I felt relieved that I had my scar from the fight at the summer party and so looked the same as everybody else — I was afraid of appearing different or clever which meant that I would be noticed by the Corporals and picked on by all the others . |
| 15 | ‘ Not , ’ he went on hastily , ‘ that I liken my wife to Mr Landor nor to a wild animal , but she had similar need of kindness and nursing expertise . ’ |
| 16 | The first is that I felt my battle to be with authority , whether in the form of teachers , matrons , parents , or even nature itself . |
| 17 | I must say that I enjoyed my time in hospital . |
| 18 | One evening as I was nearing Farr 's entrance , I was running , tripped , with the result that I banged my head on the pavement . |
| 19 | It was on Stephen Leacock 's advice that I tried my hand at writing humour and found it very arduous work ; writing ordinary prose was hard enough , but trying to make it funny was even harder . |
| 20 | Different names may be current in my area , so that I give you information on the wrong fish . |
| 21 | ‘ If I accept your hospitality , ’ he said , ‘ it will not mean that I forfeit my right to kanly . ’ |
| 22 | They suffered me to the extent that I did my column for 530 weeks in a row but over the years there was more and more of a crackdown on giving me facilities in the office . |
| 23 | However , a year or more later I got a note from Colonel Leslie Glass saying that in a report received from an officer dropped behind the Japanese lines there occurred the statement , ‘ ’ I think I ought to add that I owe my life to a little booklet entitled Rubbing Along in Burmese . ’ |
| 24 | It 's no exaggeration to say that I owe my start in politics to the G M B because after having worked , as Dick said , for the G M B for a number of years it was the support of the G M B which helped me win the nomination for Chesterly Street and in the early eighties I can remember when er the Labour Party was going through a difficult period it was officials and members of the G M B who were a steadying influence in my constituency , as they have been ever since . |
| 25 | It is in this way that Foucault can return to the possibility of doing historical work that has political force through his notion of genealogy , which means , as he puts it , ‘ that I begin my analysis from a question posed in the present ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I must confess , my dear Fanny ( his sister ) , that I found your judgement of him was inadequate ; perhaps , too , he may not have been in the mood for playing when you heard him , which is probably often the case ; but I was again enchanted by his playing , and I am convinced that if you , and Father too , had heard some of his best things in the way he played them to me , you would say the same . |
| 28 | You will now release me : the resulting implication being that I bought my freedom at the expense of his . |
| 29 | Once my father had been laid in his bed , I was a little uncertain as to how to proceed ; for while it seemed undesirable that I leave my father in such a condition , I did not really have a moment more to spare . |
| 30 | The impression you gave that I provided your reporter with new information following the meeting is totally false . |