Example sentences of "a [noun sg] that i [vb past] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
| 2 | I thought for a moment that I had come second ; I had n't seen Ben at all . |
| 3 | At this point a job that I had thought a burden , turned out to be a fairy godmother 's wand . |
| 4 | A feeling that I had run a terrible risk and now everything was going to be all right . |
| 5 | We had gotten to that section of the tune where it was obvious that we had played enough for the outro and I decided , off the top of my head , to start playing a song that I had started writing earlier in the week . |
| 6 | This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake . |
| 7 | I looked at Robert 's painting , reflecting how I had spoiled my life : a life that I had muddied and bloodied and ruined . |
| 8 | And I would realise with a pang that I had forfeited my right to concern . |
| 9 | Then a film that I 'd made in India opened , and the producer of the film gave me a list of agents ' names , and said , ‘ You are going to be a star . |
| 10 | Later , at the time of the collapse of the empire , we also purchased the small er manufacturing plant in which again was a plant that I 'd started . |
| 11 | For so long I resisted any change to my hairstyle — I thought I knew what suited me — I was entrenched in an image that I had held from years gone by . |
| 12 | He and I have had a series of meetings about the provision of the slip road , and he reminded me of an undertaking that I had given when Minister responsible for health matters a few years ago . |