Example sentences of "[pron] that [vb past] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw nothing that made me dislike her . |
| 2 | It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all . |
| 3 | There was just some little part of me that carried me wide of him . |
| 4 | In fact when I er er periods started it was them that told me all about it not me mother and did n't never think then about st er sex or anything , not a thing , I was as innocent as day was born when I was eighteen . |
| 5 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
| 6 | In trying to sort out this problem I was driven to delving through old logbooks , and it was reading them that made me realise just how often we had based ourselves in the area . |
| 7 | It was you that made me like him . |
| 8 | It was you that taught me to be a Darwinist , a decent gradualist . |
| 9 | ‘ It was thinking I 'd lost you that brought me to my senses . |
| 10 | No , it 's Greg and you that got me on to saying that . |
| 11 | I can only tell you that had I done that … |
| 12 | It 's you that told me about him was n't it ? |
| 13 | I sorted through my frocks but could find none that fitted me ; I 'd outgrown them all and was waiting until I 'd grown into Liza 's castoffs . |
| 14 | I destroyed everything that reminded me of her : photographs , mementoes . |
| 15 | ‘ The teaching was just something that kept me alive ; I 'd tried to live off music before that , and failed . |
| 16 | And then he said something that struck me as rather strange : ‘ He 's made up his mind now . |
| 17 | Something that struck me personally at this period was that he had a most strange and cultivated sense of humour . |
| 18 | Then Lorne said something that made me half-identify Rimbo as French . |
| 19 | So I signed , and then she said something that rocked me back on my heels . |
| 20 | The thought had barely come and gone , and I was in the act of reaching out to replace the whisky bottle , when a long burst of electric-blue light from the aperture showed me something that froze me in mid-reach . |
| 21 | I noticed , too , something that surprised me : an abundance of images of the sea . |
| 22 | Erm now , something that puzzled me for quite a long time when I started out doing philosophy of language er one or two years ago erm frequently you hear claims or we hear claims to the effect that this is a logical form of this sentence or this is the structure of this sentence , or this is the semantic structure of this sentence and I was never quite sure what that actually meant erm it 's partly because apart from Davidson , erm a lot of people who write on these issues do n't actually tell you what the background theory is and exactly what the point of the assignment of structured sentences is supposed to be , erm however after thinking about it for a while , I 've arrived at the following following general view there are at least three rather different enterprises er which might lead you to assign sentence structure and er one needs to figure out the relations between them . |
| 23 | something that puzzled me as I read it , er |
| 24 | It was something that gave me a framework for my experience , and in some ways kind of saved my life really because it gave me words to see that I was n't isolated , that there was a movement — it was very real and it was very gut . |
| 25 | ‘ I can not say why , precisely , but for hundreds , thousands — an infinite number of reasons — you fascinated me , and that fascination encouraged in me the desire to live , something that abandoned me on the death of my sister . |
| 26 | Foster , whose own career started at the tender age of 3 , discovered 9-year-old Adam in a New York classroom : ‘ It was him wanting to be something that drew me , ’ she says . |
| 27 | He was the one that got me pregnant and he says that I ca n't come home at all now and I phoned the hospital , yes , and they said that come in and if I go in then you 're going to arrest me and then you 'll just call my dad like you always have done every time I 've run away from home and then every time you lot have took me back home and then I end up getting pregnant . |
| 28 | He was the one that got me pregnant . |
| 29 | He was the one that got me pregnant . |
| 30 | The other one that worried me a bit , is how are we recr recruiting ? |