Example sentences of "[adj] that i [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made it clear that I wanted our discussion that morning to focus on business matters , but I realised that she had a need to talk to someone , preferably someone discreet . |
| 2 | The bat flitted so low that I saw its silhouette for a brief moment against the Milky Way . |
| 3 | My difficulty in breathing was such that I clutched my throat . |
| 4 | I felt relieved that I had my scar from the fight at the summer party and so looked the same as everybody else — I was afraid of appearing different or clever which meant that I would be noticed by the Corporals and picked on by all the others . |
| 5 | He seems to have known enough about ordinary medicine — and perhaps still have had the contacts within the profession — to make sure that I got my inoculations and injections at the correct times in my life , despite my official non-existence as far as the National Health Service is concerned . |
| 6 | It was when I was fifteen or sixteen that I committed my first big offence . |
| 7 | Then I went out and bought some anaesthetic spray and applied it , but the pain was so excruciating that I thought my foot would fall off . |
| 8 | Not only could I not do it but the effort was so excruciating that I opened my mouth to scream and could n't breathe enough for that either . |
| 9 | It was not until many years later when I was a principal inspector in 1965 that I had my first direct encounter with ICAO itself . |
| 10 | But it was not until 1990 that I had my first spawning , and raised fry . |