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 .
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