Example sentences of "that i [adv] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Er so what I did was something a bit simpler than that I just went through the memorandum and and ticked off what I regarded as restrictive statements as against positive ones . |
2 | Then there was this thing that I constantly talked to the press . |
3 | Now that I actually stood in the house of Victor Frankenstein , I felt myself no more than a character in a fantastic film . |
4 | Not that I ever went into the house , for the doctor 's surgery , which he shared with one other , stood in Witney High Street where it widened into the market place . |
5 | It 's , it 's like the one aunty Lynne had and I , I bought for aunty Lynne , years ago , that I still got in the cupboard you know . |
6 | I was so thankful she was well that I too laughed at the repartee . |
7 | He lifted and transferred my soul from the depths up to the heights , so that I ardently longed for the pleasures of heaven more than I had ever delighted in physical embrace or worldly corruption … |
8 | He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes . |
9 | The flat in West Kensington was really only three large , formerly elegant rooms , with ceilings so high that I often gaped at the room 's proportions , as if I were in a derelict cathedral . |
10 | I studied piano , too , then trombone , but it was n't until someone at school turned up with a guitar which had been ‘ converted ’ into a bass that I really thought about the instrument . |
11 | Annoyingly , I have just discovered ( on my ‘ Fantasy League ’ mail being sent back to me ) that every single pounds sign that I lovingly put in the mail has been intpreted by the damn stupid mail program as ‘ stlg ’ or ‘ u ’ , and I 'm sure there will be plenty of other variations . |