Example sentences of "[that] i [vb past] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt that this was possibly a chap I should look at — quite apart from the fact that I knew little of him except that he had somehow or other got out of Holland and become the ADC to Queen Wilhelmina at the Dutch headquarters in London . |
| 2 | Violet Sangston promised me that I knew most of the other guests . |
| 3 | And if it 's discovered that I spent most of my childhood in care , then reporters could make enquiries and turn it into a big thing . ’ |
| 4 | So that 's three times this that I ate three of the |
| 5 | So dismal was it that I thought first of Byron 's prophetic poem of the death of light , and then of the lands that lie north of the line of the Arctic Circle . |
| 6 | There is no doubt about the high quality of housing stock that has been built by the Housing Executive in Northern Ireland and every time I see it I am envious and wish that I had some of it in Wigan . |
| 7 | It was a part of becoming adult that I grew aware of the great invisible universe of personality which controls us as surely as do physical laws . |
| 8 | It was just around this stage that I became aware of the first footman beside me , who whispered : ‘ Miss Kenton would like a word with you , sir . |
| 9 | It was during this incident that I became aware of Husseys Hatches , as the Fire Brigade used the water from one of these , nearly opposite the Brown Street Baptist Church . |
| 10 | Once when I was young , innocent and unaware of eating amnesia , ‘ weighers-wilt ’ ( ‘ I 'll just take a guess at this — looks like two ounces … ! ’ ) and other related disorders , I became so alarmed about all the people who could n't seem to shed weight on 1,000 calories a day that I interviewed many of them , carefully selected a group of twenty of the most baffling and genuine cases , and incarcerated them in a health farm for a week . |
| 11 | It was with absolute truth that I answered one of the interviewers who asked ‘ Are you a bird of passage by choice or do you really wish for a steady job ? ’ |
| 12 | I could probably give you the best idea by saying that I conducted most of my tests at an output rating of only 8 watts per channel and that there was sufficient volume to overwhelm a large mammal . |