Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This was a very comforting thing , although I must admit that I heard of no cases occurring in the period that I was in Mespot . |
| 32 | It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger . |
| 33 | It was one of the few references to the former prime minister 's gender that I heard during the whole week of leadership crise . |
| 34 | ‘ But why I mentioned her was that I heard by chance that she has married again . ’ |
| 35 | She drew the word out , so that I heard in its simple syllable all the pain and hurt of the drug . |
| 36 | Axelrod had already begun to think in ESS terms , but I felt that this tendency was so important that I wrote to him suggesting that he should get in touch with W. D. Hamilton , who was then , though Axelrod did n't know it , in a different department of the same university , the University of Michigan . |
| 37 | Before I left , I expressed the hope that he could pay another visit to Oxford , though this time a purely private one , and I see that I wrote to him repeating this towards the end of term — the final term — because on 17 June he replied to my home address : |
| 38 | ‘ And ‘ t was not for the hand of a child that I wrote to your father a year later . ’ |
| 39 | You will recall that I wrote to you in June requesting that this work be carried out , and I was given a job number ( which I do not have to hand ) , but no date for the work to be done . |
| 40 | It was Joan who told me of her death , and it was probably then that I wrote to your father and we started to exchange Christmas cards . |
| 41 | Well now I have in front of me my book that I wrote with Rachel Lowe about these erm these early film erm makers of Britain , and leafing it over I see some of the facts which lie behind the Brighton 's , Brighton 's contribution to this . |
| 42 | However , I would also like to remind him that I wrote in response to a report which I assumed to be factual . |
| 43 | There were faces among them that I recognised from England , and from the training centre at Achnacarry . |
| 44 | It would be churlish of me not to say how much I welcome that statement , and how much I rejoice in the fact that to add to the four climbdowns that I announced at 4 o'clock , there is a fifth — the abandonment of the proposal announced by the Home Secretary in column 167 of Hansard on 2 July . |
| 45 | In addition , it will be eligible for up to £3.66 million under the urban crime fund initiative that I announced on 26 November . |
| 46 | I believe that the spending levels that we are now seeing , through the new scheme that I announced in the summer , vindicate the judgment I made because the £17 million that was spent in the two years of the initial scheme represents an average spend of £8.5 million . |
| 47 | The independent panel that I appointed in July as you are aware , reported yesterday . |
| 48 | The whole process became disheartening and , although I tried various mantras , from words I repeated endlessly to candle flames that I stared at , my thoughts always got the better of me . |
| 49 | I knew that I possessed a sidereal compass and that I belonged to another world . |
| 50 | Yes , a lot was happening in 1933 , but my arrival still managed to create a bit of a stir in the ordinary , working-class South London family that I belonged to . |
| 51 | It was unbearable that the gallery girl should imagine that I belonged to Syl , that his glances and suggestive remarks had ensnared me . |
| 52 | Although I had seen you , Frankenstein , for only a few moments , I knew that I belonged to you . |
| 53 | They were trying to insinuate that I belonged with the psychiatric patients . |
| 54 | I opened two bottles that I retrieved from the sticky mess on the cabin floor . |
| 55 | Did n't happen any town that I knew of except London and I can understand why they did it in London — very expensive place for a young detective to make a shape — cost too much money keeping in front of your job there . |
| 56 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 57 | One of the most interesting cases that Maureen came across that I knew of was a peregrine falcon . |
| 58 | There had n't been any lapses in my security that I knew of . |
| 59 | It is hard to imagine the effect water can have on the lives of normal everyday people , there were about six or seven houses that I knew of that almost completely wrecked . |
| 60 | Not in the same way that I knew of his brother , who made money in biscuits and owned a gleaming Daimler car which he drove very cautiously over the potholes in the road outside our house . |