Example sentences of "[adv] [that] i [vb past] it " in BNC.
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1 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
2 | The wide , airy nature of the streets here give the city a marvellously spacious feel , so that I found it most easy to spend some hours just strolling in the gently warm sunshine . |
3 | What is incontrovertible is only that I had it , not that it was caused by anything ‘ out there ’ beyond my experience . |
4 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
5 | ‘ It is since that I studied it , ’ said Greg . |
6 | ‘ It was just that I heard it call so I knew there must be one about . ’ |
7 | Just that I caught it as I moved my finger . |
8 | It was n't until much later that I saw it metaphorically . |
9 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
10 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
11 | ‘ The abuse happened so often that I thought it was normal . |
12 | It was just then that I heard it ; a small knocking sound coming from the direction of the cupboard . |