Example sentences of "[adj] that i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 61 | I did the rest of my round in a state of gloom and at lunch I was still so preoccupied that I wondered what had happened when Tristan served the meal . |
| 62 | ‘ And he just stood there , ’ Emlyn concluded , ‘ looking so desperate that I gave us both an enormous gin and tonic ! ’ |
| 63 | I was so superior that I considered myself to be virtually beyond criticism . |
| 64 | Its just that I thought you would n't come here any more … not after last night . ’ |
| 65 | I was so excited that I forgot I was going into a cage with a wild bird . |
| 66 | There were two such concepts in particular that I felt I had to include . |
| 67 | Terry , whose gentleness of heart so melted my own that I helped him sell his newspapers outside factories , on picket lines and outside East End tube stations at seven-thirty in the morning , was encouraging . |
| 68 | It was so close that I felt I could reach out and touch her . |
| 69 | For a few horrible moments I thought the motor would n't fire , but after several pulls it caught , then I just hooked my overnight bag over one shoulder , took the tiller and made for the shore , which looked so close that I felt I could have swum across . ’ |
| 70 | It was not that I was so self-blind that I saw nothing to be learnt . |
| 71 | I thanked my lucky stars for Twelve French Poets , the A-level syllabus , and our rectangular French teacher , who was so thorough that I found I could discuss symbolism and synaesthesia without batting an eyelid . |
| 72 | 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 . |
| 73 | The laugh she gave was so dirty that I knew it was going to be all right . |
| 74 | I was so surprised that I followed him without a word . |
| 75 | It was in the winter of 1987–88 that I announced I was going to race mostly in Britain in Olympic year . |
| 76 | In fact when I was about twelve , I wrote a piece of music called ‘ Anxiety ’ — it was so silly that I framed it . |
| 77 | er , it got that bad that I thought she was taking the piss out of me . |
| 78 | ‘ She was so bad that I thought it well to have oxygen administered ; this I procured from Blake , Edgar 's . |
| 79 | I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark . |
| 80 | " I had chest pains so bad that I knew I would be unable to give 100 per cent . " |
| 81 | But it was not until 1990 that I had my first spawning , and raised fry . |
| 82 | ‘ I was so terrified that I fought him all the way . |