Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] that i [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 It was through them that I heard about the forthcoming penny farthing races at Ferrymead Historic Park , on Waitangi Day ( the NZ national day , Feb. 6th ) .
2 I felt such a strong love for them that I planned to spend the rest of my life among them , and to try to become more like them .
3 Well I did n't know anything about any none of us knew anything about anybody in those days , cos it was so early on in the , and we were n't , I was influenced more by people like blues er black blues singers , American blues singers like Muddy and Lightning , all those old blues , , er they were the heroes for me that I grew up with playing skiffle and and then Lonnie became my first Lonnie became by first hero and I er modelled a lot of my early singing on Lonnie .
4 Lucky for me that I got out before you could entice me into the ultimate folly of going to bed with you . ’
5 It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain .
6 I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well .
7 Instead , I sent him one of me that I took one weekend , with the sun coming in the window and shining on my hair .
8 And she thumped the cake down so hard in front of me that I expected the plate to shatter .
9 ‘ You see , Shelley , there 's so much of me that I thought was dead , coming alive in this place .
10 I remember a go , a go with some of them that I thought I could do , but realised I ca n't do , do you know what I mean ?
11 there were some of them that I had missed er completely but
12 ‘ I know this is going to sound a bit silly , but in a way it was because of her that I came here . ’
13 I was so proud of her that I wanted to take lots of photographs of her while she was young , just like a proud parent with a new baby .
14 I told you in another part of this saga of mine that I took over a Night in No 7 Squadron from a Flight Commander .
15 I brought some bits for you that I thought would probably be redundant , but they 're obviously not .
16 ‘ It was for you that I had to leave that hotel suite and not return until daylight . ’
17 ‘ Sweetie what can I do for you that I did n't already ?
18 It was not until many years after the whole Jean-Claude episode was behind me that I realized the extent to which my physical appearance had dictated the terms of my life in Paris .
19 ‘ Is there something wrong with me that I felt such a blankness ?
20 Then Holmes checked with me that I had my gun , an army revolver .
21 I spent so much time with them that I began to think like them , to see the world from their point of view .
22 I was so in love with her that I rented a house and hired servants for her .
23 I 'll , I can endorse that by saying that we should n't , as I noticed a certain offhandedness with him that I did n't like at all .
24 I felt I had music inside me that I wanted people to hear .
25 The first evidence of Cat 's ‘ I felt I had music inside me that I wanted people to hear .
26 ‘ When I die , ’ she said , ‘ you can tell him from me that I had n't forgotten him .
27 Dragged answers from me that I did n't want to give . ’
28 I was talking to him about that and I got a totally different response from him that I expected did n't mind .
29 And here we did see , by particular favour , the body of Queen Katherine of Valois ; and I had the upper part of her body in my hands , and I did kiss her mouth , reflecting upon it that I did kiss a Queene , and this was my birthday , thirty-six years old , that I did kiss a Queene . ’
30 I had been horrified at his scarecrow appearance when I first saw him at the clinic , and when I met him by chance in Tala-Tala I felt so sorry for him that I asked him if he would like to come for dinner .
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