Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] [verb] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
| 2 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 3 | All through tea I had waited for some indication on his part that he knew I had seen the girl — as he must have known , for it was obvious that the nocturnal concert had been given to announce her presence . |
| 4 | And that was the film with the scene of the boy coming into the bar that I said I thought of when I saw Boy coming in sometimes . |
| 5 | ‘ Sexual liberation ’ , the appearance of pornography seemed , again , to have a freedom and an ease that I thought I did n't have . |
| 6 | You , who wanted me to enter you on the same night , with the same sound still in my head , a sound that I knew I had somehow , somewhere , heard before . |
| 7 | But in the severe turbulence that I encountered I had no control over my canopy and there was very little that I could do . |
| 8 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 9 | Though it was when I heard her using bad language to my housekeeper and being unwarrantedly rude to Ivo that I decided I 'd had enough of the woman . ’ |
| 10 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 11 | It would take far too long to tell you in detail how I identified the specific genetic patterns of these chromosomes ; you 'll have to accept my assurance that I believe I did identify them . ’ |
| 12 | From its throat , where a carelessly tied scarf failed to conceal deep scars , to its feet , encased in boots that I imagined I recognized , the monster was a monument to grime . |
| 13 | Gareth 's ‘ BACK FOR GRUB ’ message was still pinned to the corkboard , and it was with a distinct sense of release that I remembered I 'd said that I would go back for his camera . |
| 14 | It was just as I was sitting down in the living room with my cup of coffee that I realised I 'd left my bag on the train . |
| 15 | ‘ But I knew at the time that I felt I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
| 16 | That was something at the time that I felt I did n't really need myself . |