Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was largely due to him that I managed to negotiate successfully with government officials and tribal chiefs during the months that followed . |
| 2 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 3 | I did my best , but I suppose it was during that time that I began to drink too much and that finished off my promotion chances . |
| 4 | Sine then , whatever the frame , I 've rarely had them off my nose , to the extent that I began to hide defiantly behind them , never fighting being four-eyed except in specs and a ball gown , when I always feel decidedly Everage . |
| 5 | It was then that I began to understand how archaeologists could be led into serious error if they decided in advance what they were going to find . |
| 6 | It was as I got towards the end that I began to look more towards his future . |
| 7 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 8 | The one good thing was that I began to get on much better with my children . |
| 9 | ‘ I felt that I began to get very complacent in my guitar playing and that 's why we asked Craig to leave . |
| 10 | At night I tossed and turned to dreams of such emotional intensity that I went to work as tired as I was the day before . |
| 11 | Fearnley was by now talking so quietly that I had to lean close to hear him . |
| 12 | Circumstances dictated that I had to wait nearly two years ( how did I survive ? ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was so stiff , so shocked , that I had to go on . |
| 15 | So I thanked Mr. Lennis for his frankness , explained that I had to go back to the bank to deal with some work , and departed . |
| 16 | It was n't a very full list cos erm er it did n't occur to me until about seven o'clock this evening that I had to go out quite soon and then I just ran around frantically doing things . |
| 17 | This was a thing that I had to judge entirely for myself . |
| 18 | Because my experience was not of being poor , the discomforts of the poverty that I had to put up with in the rue Victorie did not suggest themselves as unending . |
| 19 | ‘ As the full-time mother of pre-school twins , I just thought that I had to put up with Sam 's barely concealed fling with a neighbour , ’ says Tina . |
| 20 | The threat of unemployment , even for apparently ‘ qualified ’ people , was such that I had to cast round desperately for a job . |
| 21 | Often I felt so full after eating that I had to lie down or drag myself to lectures , feeling as though I 'd just eaten three Christmas dinners . |
| 22 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 23 | There was one that I had to throw away because it was erm |
| 24 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 25 | I told myself that I had to face up to things ; John might have forgotten me , he might have been changed beyond recognition by his experiences ; he would not want me to mope . |
| 26 | With that my respondent turned and attacked the ice with such ferocity that I had to step back to avoid the avalanche of detritus . |
| 27 | He started knocking me about and telling me that I had to bring in this or that amount of money . |
| 28 | One of the biggest challenges was the fact that I had to work quite direct , once the colour was put on it was incredibly difficult to lift off completely and so I could afford to make very few mistakes . |
| 29 | He produced the paper after supper , and dictated an absurd letter that I had to write out . |
| 30 | I must say that it sheds some light on the state of some of the aircraft that I had to fly in then . |