Example sentences of "[that] i [vb past] [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It was only when I got home and looked up the dictionary that I realised what a gem it had been .
2 ‘ It was then that I realised what a lovely person he was , ’ says Avril .
3 It was only after we had left , and were returning home that I realised what a good feeling it was to have helped someone in pain .
4 No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago .
5 These recent watercolours , larger , bolder and stronger than his earlier work , pleased me so much when first I saw them that I offered him an exhibition at Abbot Hall .
6 Clearly it was I who should have spoken these words , but already I had a feeling that I knew what the brown paper and the ribbed cardboard concealed , and I was n't going to say a word until time or circumstance compelled me .
7 The famous sequence when the helicopters gather in the sky before the great attack has music with it — very familiar music ! — but , do you know , I was so gripped by the power of Coppola 's image , the helicopters , the music , that it was n't until many , many hours afterwards that I realized what the music was he had been using .
8 I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict .
9 Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man .
10 I 'm unashamed to report that I enjoyed it a lot , and I 'm sure I would have loved it as a child .
11 He was the goalkeeper for Manchester United and I joked later that I threw him the bag of money and he dropped it !
12 Hanging around with the photographer sparked Tony 's interest in the medium , ‘ It was a combination of things ; one was the bull , the adventure , the romance , and I really found that I liked it a lot .
13 And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force .
14 Once I had said that I found it a lot easier to speak to her .
15 Having read what the Queen 's Speech says on matters of foreign policy , I must say that I found it a bit of a mish-mash .
16 But Jim insisted , insisted that I bought him a pint and asked me to caddie for him the following week at St Anne 's .
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