Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] that i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was on the morning when registration began that I had my fatal encounter . |
| 2 | Only the pain was getting rather tedious and Meg insisted that I had it done now before I retired , on the theory I suppose , that better in the Government 's time than my own . " |
| 3 | ‘ Your absence meant that I had her all to myself at breakfast — with the additional pleasure of escorting her personally to school . ’ |
| 4 | It would have been nice if it had been a decade to the day since the dog died that I exhumed its skull , but in fact I was a few months late . |
| 5 | When the good Doctor suggested that I override your wish and write to … ’ |
| 6 | It was not so much by what Basil said that I remember him but by what he did . |
| 7 | It would have been so easy and commonplace to move into some bushes ; but my partner insisted that I light my second candle . |
| 8 | ‘ By God , Sally-Anne , your mother said that I spoiled you rotten , and I think that she 's right . |