Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] that i " in BNC.
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| 1 | You , Mr. Speaker , would not permit me to give a full answer to the right hon. Gentleman 's question , which reminds me of a minute that I sent out , when I went to the Home Office in 1987 , to the then permanent secretary . |
| 2 | because where all the sort of a route that I reckon I know I , I am not gon na know it all . |
| 3 | Mind you I was glad cos I got hell of a temper that I kept myself alright cos I was gon na swing for her like . |
| 4 | E actually yours made me think of a story that I was told many years ago on a coach trip over Dartmoor |
| 5 | ‘ And ‘ t was not for the hand of a child that I wrote to your father a year later . ’ |
| 6 | And he gives me a look of a kind that I do n't altogether like . |
| 7 | Let me inscribe these words on this papyrus of a person that I have become and trust , my saviour , that one day they will enlighten me . |
| 8 | I enclose a copy of a statement that I have prepared for you . |
| 9 | I was a bit bored this lunchtime , so I though I 'd type in a bit of a report that I read in the Daily Mail about the Hibs game . |
| 10 | When you have thought about all these things , when you have fully absorbed into the darkest parts of your mind the sub-human horror of them , you will realize , must realize , with the blinding force of a revelation that I could not by the very nature of my soul be so implicated in such a maze of lust and filth . |
| 11 | of a thing that I know . |
| 12 | Seeing a Catholic church , I went in , but a huddled family inside looked so shocked at the sight of a stranger that I hurried out again , suspecting a funeral . |
| 13 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 14 | Erm there was a , I mean there was a lot of friction , I mean , I mean I 'm really lucky to have the strength of a friendship that I did because you know , if , I would n't have got , you know where I am , sort of without it , I think . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's the end of an adventure that I thought would last for ever . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was sitting in front of an audience that I hardly knew but believed to be very worthy that brought back that old feeling of being a bit of a fraud , particularly when one lady , catching the shreds of my zeal said I had taken away her fear of cancer ! |
| 18 | or was more accurately a fire officer for a part of an office that I was n't aware of , so I mean I think . |
| 19 | So , it was like a relief that I could talk to him about being pregnant . |
| 20 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 21 | ‘ If you 've some crazy notion in that muddled excuse for a brain that I 've got designs on your person , allow me to disabuse you of it right now , ’ he told her bluntly , bringing hot , but thankfully invisible , colour to her cheeks . |
| 22 | I teased him for a bit that I did n't get it , it went for so much . |
| 23 | I do n't think for a minute that I can work them out in movies . |
| 24 | ‘ And you did n't believe for a minute that I would agree and that 's why you said it . |
| 25 | In the words of the director of the Yeshive University Museum , New York : ‘ This is the most difficult project for a museum that I can imagine . |
| 26 | In fact , the only thing me and that apology for a wench that I 'm forced to share this column with can agree on is that the Sega games are just too flamin' easy . |
| 27 | She added that to herself while , aloud , she elaborated , ‘ I was fishing for a coin that I 'd accidentally dropped down the back of the chair … and there was my passport and the rest of my stuff . ’ |
| 28 | Now what that 's saying is , today is the due date for a job that I gave Barbara . |
| 29 | But do n't think for a moment that I 'm duped by my own little lies . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I have not suggested for a moment that I regard all humanity as rotten , ’ George said icily . |