Example sentences of "that [noun sg] i [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I returned home that afternoon I was surprised to find Dad already sitting in his chair by the fire . |
| 2 | Now I know that when I had made love to you that afternoon I was right to follow my instincts . ’ |
| 3 | From that sketch I was asked to do a painting , ’ she recalled . |
| 4 | On that circuit I was vaguely conscious that there were more blue uniforms on the streets than normal , but then that was normal in the West End for the pre-Christmas rush . |
| 5 | Yeah well we got that lasagne I was going to do that for you today but |
| 6 | Up to that point I was very happy . |
| 7 | At that point I was just satisfying my curiosity about what it was like to make records . ’ |
| 8 | Not long after that meeting I was faced with a problem over my official duties and I urgently sought his advice . |
| 9 | I had a phone call , and you know that place I were going this afternoon ? |
| 10 | I knew I must talk with her again , but at that moment I was content to have used the words of the last of the great desert explorers . |
| 11 | Late that evening I was still looking . |
| 12 | All that evening I was obsessed by a feeling of dread . |
| 13 | That evening I was all right — Joanna would be afloat in the late afternoon , and I could get away before dark . |
| 14 | No , for that job I was doing last night . |
| 15 | Sometimes , when preparing for a long haul , I would only manage four hours ' rest , but that night I was asleep by eleven-thirty and did not rise till six . |
| 16 | On the Green that night I was ready to say I had backed a loser , and to be graceful in defeat , a gentleman to the end . |
| 17 | That night I was just too tired to go to the team party . |
| 18 | That night I was very happy . |
| 19 | That night I was again subjected to the ordeal by wedding dress . |
| 20 | That night I was woken by a thin , tinkling sound and sat up wondering where the hell I was . |
| 21 | I was waiting for you … and then after that night I was here with you , I tried to convince myself that it was over , that I did n't need any more . |
| 22 | That night I was really depressed . |
| 23 | I was there that night I was , sometimes when I was a little boy I used to go with my mother you know to , for the ent I did n't know whether , yells of laughter used to come out of his shop . |
| 24 | Oh , I knew that that night I was in a very difficult position , if he had been on the public highway I could have taken him to the police station and taken him |
| 25 | Later that day I was the guest of Locheil 's gamekeeper , Donald Cameron , who informed me that Fiona had died three days after her admission to hospital in Inverness , ten days ago . |
| 26 | This suited me well and by 10am that day I was hoeing and raking the 60-foot square potato patch in preparation for the sowing . |
| 27 | But that day I was leaving the school gates with a group of boys when I saw Helen . |
| 28 | Later on that day I was sent into the Corporals ' quarters with a mop and bucket and as I went in a Corporal came out buttoning his flies . |
| 29 | That day I was lucky , and the sea carried me to the shore . |
| 30 | I got to the Imperial at about half twelve and waited for Mark and co , unfortunately I had told him I would be in a leather and , due to the leather not being available that day I was wearing a lumber jacket ! |