Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |
| 2 | So , there 's me , in agony with me ankle , hobbling over to the hole that I 'd made in the wall of the office . |
| 3 | I got there first , ordered a Scotch , and opened the evening paper that I 'd bought on the way . |
| 4 | Just as a matter of interest , would you have believed me if I 'd said that I 'd bumped into an old acquaintance near the museum ? ’ |
| 5 | No , who was that I 'd got ta a statement about then ? |
| 6 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 7 | ‘ It was in Kabul that I got caught in a safe house , ’ another term he 'll always think of differently , ‘ by the secret police and I was put in prison . |
| 8 | I said that I feared going down the road of different regional governments having different tax rates . |
| 9 | It was only when I bought a collection of 12 Nalevich drawings and documents that I began to think about a constructivist show . |
| 10 | It was only weeks after the speech that I began to read in the press that actually her theme had been positive and she had presented a positive forward view . |
| 11 | He glared at me , quite beside himself with rage , and the whole scene seemed so absurd and nothing to do with anything that had really happened , that I began to laugh in a wild , helpless way , snorting through my nose . |
| 12 | I could not believe my eyes as every film , one after the other , that I lifted dripping from the hypo , was totally and absolutely blank . |
| 13 | It was through this work that I came to hear of the case of Dr Ron Carrington , a 35-year-old psychiatrist . |
| 14 | He was so frightened that I went to look for the animal . |
| 15 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 16 | I have made all the amendments that I wished to make to the procedures and I have done it in pencil with a copy to circulate . |
| 17 | He had written a book called Stilfragen on the history of the acanthus motif , and that I had studied as a student . |
| 18 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 19 | To me she represented all that I had imagined of the bygone days of sail . |
| 20 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 21 | I gave up the stiff white collars that I had worn at the advertising agency and was careful to wear plain ties ; but my suits were Burton 's at £10 a time . |
| 22 | And against all sense and credibility I worked out that I had landed in the midst of what might be called a farmstead , Fraxilly-style . |
| 23 | and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job . |
| 24 | Except that I had to live with the aftermath . |
| 25 | One thing that I had grasped about the whole business was that we were going to live in a country area where there would be lots of wildlife , and I had heard of King Arthur , of course . |
| 26 | It was dark , I could n't make out their features , but I was terrified that I had jumped from the pot into the flames . |
| 27 | And it was perfect for me because a lot of the vibrato that I had developed over the years suddenly sounded more like me , because the vibrato bar was n't there taking up the slack and giving way every time I applied vibrato . |
| 28 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 29 | In the morning I explained to Diana and Mary that I had to go on a journey , and would be away for several days . |
| 30 | He said he did n't want to see my baby , and that I had to go into a home for unmarried mothers . |