Example sentences of "[noun pl] that i [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was on these - " moderate " walks that I came to appreciate the astonishing versatility of' the Dales , how inhospitably barren they can look from the brow of one hill , then how welcomingly like the gentle South Downs from the next ; how one village , little more than a pub and a row of stone cottages , might be as gaunt and forbidding as some remote Highland hamlet , while another will be so prettified and roses-round-the-door picturesque that , but for the backcloth of soaring hills or looming crags , and the uncoursed rubble walls wending like strips of children 's Plasticine up to the horizon , it could be in Mummerset . |
| 2 | When Phil Collins came on , his jacket had such wide shoulders that I had to lean to one side to see the monitor TV set which the producer uses to scribble messages to me . |
| 3 | With this background , as a teacher I saw the subject as a collection of facts and skills that I had to impart to my pupils in a well-defined sequence . |
| 4 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
| 5 | When I was chided by someone for seeming oblivious of ‘ the magnitude of the accounting operation ’ I said that it was because of my consciousness of the magnitude of all other operations that I dared to make these demands of Mr Whalley , who perfectly understands in any case . |
| 6 | Bill Francis looked so much worse in twelve hours that I had to control my expression when I went back to him . |
| 7 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 8 | I told my parents that I wanted to go to the lavatory and have a wash . |
| 9 | I went through these areas that I wanted to work in and I argued with Jeremy that we had n't allowed for ‘ things visual ’ , that we had a visual medium , that Britain was profoundly under-educated visually , so that we should actually use television for visual education and he fell for this . |
| 10 | ‘ I tell you , Charles , it was only after I heard that they 'd signed up Micky Banks that I agreed to do it . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's probably only the past two or three years that I started to feel comfortable with myself . |
| 12 | The , the present , the present day er in Edinburgh , the present day buildings that I helped to build up are now in Pilton and in fact er out in Saint I built , that was a er built a fact I did all the rough . |
| 13 | I had n't bought any tea and there was an Alan Freeman radio programme on the story of the Kinks that I wanted to listen to . |
| 14 | I mean one day , I mean I was in a customer care meeting for three hours on Monday , so obviously I lost some there , but you know , that particular day I was on a , just on the phone personally on my B M S for just over three hours , and just looking at the other things that I had to deal with . |
| 15 | It left me free to do all kinds of other things that I wanted to do . |
| 16 | Suddenly I realised that there were all sorts of things that I wanted to do that I had n't done . |
| 17 | They took things that I wanted to pass on to the children |
| 18 | It 's like the stupid things that I tried to do once myself with that great pope of Velasquez . |
| 19 | ‘ As a matter of fact it was about your father-in-law 's business affairs that I wanted to talk to you . |
| 20 | It was when I started having health and financial problems that I began to re-evaluate my life , and I could see that it was an appalling misery . |
| 21 | It seemed to me that there were two types of variations that I wished to explore , and there were a number of different methods that I would have to employ to resolve some of the problems that arose once I started to ask questions about these variations . |
| 22 | Sir , It is a sad reflection on the high street banks ' attitude to their customers that I had to rely on FARMERS WEEKLY for financial information vital to the overall profitability of my farming business . |
| 23 | Once again it was during some exchanges with colleagues from other establishments that I began to realise the significance of ‘ who is on your side ’ . |
| 24 | He regarded it as one of my most endearing qualities that I seemed to want nothing from him . |
| 25 | Most of the files that I wanted to see were either closed for 75 years or were ‘ retained by the department ’ , which effectively closes them forever . |
| 26 | It was as much to disprove some of their absurd assumptions as to help you prove your own theories that I agreed to come in on this project . |
| 27 | I have made all the amendments that I wished to make to the procedures and I have done it in pencil with a copy to circulate . |
| 28 | to actually create the right learning environment for them , there were a thousand little details that I had to attend to , like had I planned my lesson right , was I progressing in the right way round the classroom , had I remembered to chase up certain people 's homework , and stuff . |
| 29 | I was lowered from the stance to lie amongst the boulders and heather whingeing at my discomfort and misfortune as the crag was smothered by a swarm of conscientious drones climbing routes that I wanted to do . |
| 30 | Focusing in on social services , the points that I wanted to make to start er , to you were first of all the complexity of the community care situation , and you have a separate paper on that which Mr will be going through you , going through with you in detail . |