Example sentences of "that i [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing that I later ate in a restaurant was as good as our dinner , the finale being a ‘ tender coconut ’ pudding , a dish I had never eaten anywhere in the tropics . |
| 2 | He used some such expression in the text of an unpublished essay that I later found at Harvard . |
| 3 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 4 | Er so what I did was something a bit simpler than that I just went through the memorandum and and ticked off what I regarded as restrictive statements as against positive ones . |
| 5 | No , I do n't want to do that I just said to her , I said you know , you can sort of erm ask Brenda she said I 'm doing that I 'm not on christmas day , would you ? |
| 6 | The things I said may have been unjustified , and the fact that I just happened to be bloody tired and bad-tempered was no excuse . |
| 7 | I was so astonished by the sudden question that I just gaped at him . |
| 8 | This seemed to me a poor reason for making the announcement and I told him that I strongly disapproved of his breach of trust . |
| 9 | The rod that I eventually settled with was made from an AFTM 10 reservoir fly rod blank , after an interesting morning inspecting blanks at the Horizon factory at Redditch . |
| 10 | Now the relevant point about briefing this is a you 've mentioned Glasgow and Birmingham that I already knew about , that we 're tendering against . |
| 11 | There were plenty of filing cabinets , with half-full bottles , and an empty water cooler that I evidently kept as an excuse to have a tower of paper cups . |
| 12 | I mused on Toby 's story as I walked towards the clubhouse and so intent was I on my thoughts that I nearly knocked over Sally Drayton as I passed the PGA hut . |
| 13 | It happened so fast and so drastically that I nearly slid after him , managing only instinctively to pivot on one foot and throw myself headlong back onto the boards still remaining solid behind the hole . |
| 14 | Then there was this thing that I constantly talked to the press . |
| 15 | Naturally he was very happy when I was able to tell him that I recently came across a couple of cases of them we did n't know we had . |
| 16 | I think perhaps that I actually needed to be able to think the worst of you , however personally unpalatable that worst was to me , as some sort of a defence , so that I could despise you even if it meant despising myself as well . |
| 17 | Now that I actually stood in the house of Victor Frankenstein , I felt myself no more than a character in a fantastic film . |
| 18 | ‘ Except in cases that require learning and skill ’ , says Baxter , ‘ she was better at resolving a case of conscience than most divines that I ever knew in all my life . ’ |
| 19 | Not that I ever went into the house , for the doctor 's surgery , which he shared with one other , stood in Witney High Street where it widened into the market place . |
| 20 | Not that I ever wanted to . |
| 21 | All that I ever learned at college of philosophy had been a conception of the external world as a colourless and soundless wilderness whose true nature one could never know , which one could not even imagine — but which I did , none the less , imagine as a vast landscape of polar spaces in whose eternal twilight one wandered , preoccupied and deluded by a flicker of magic-lantern pictures which danced inside one 's mind and for ever remained private to oneself . |
| 22 | But I could n't sa I could n't say that I ever worked on any of the big |
| 23 | I wanted nothing more , though I think Dana must have wanted other things that I never thought of offering him ; with him alone I would have been happy to do what I had always denied others . |
| 24 | I was so used to his bullying that I never thought of hitting him back . |
| 25 | And he did wonderful things with my clockwork trains that I never thought of doing . ’ |
| 26 | It was fortunate for you that I never insisted on accompanying you . ’ |
| 27 | The Sun had all sorts of details about my private life that I never knew about . |
| 28 | Another poem that I have dated in the typescript ‘ December , 1957 , Plaza de Anaya , Salamanca ’ , is one I was able to write for myself , and that I never showed to Dana . |
| 29 | She gave two sharp little nods , as if that finished the matter , which no doubt it did , except that I still looked for gaps in her defences . |
| 30 | It 's , it 's like the one aunty Lynne had and I , I bought for aunty Lynne , years ago , that I still got in the cupboard you know . |