Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [that] i [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 2 | It was at this moment that I decided I must learn to dance , so that I could stay on at the pensione instead of roaming about . |
| 3 | You see and that al old aunt that I told you about she always referred this road through as the new road . |
| 4 | It was only when friends accused me of being a pompous , humourless prat that I realised it was meant as a joke . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
| 6 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 7 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 8 | No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago . |
| 9 | The wireless and the cinema gave me such enjoyment that I decided I 'd become an actor , a film star . |
| 10 | Carson was such an affable chap that I persuaded him to agree with me ( and Alf ) to continue along progressive lines . |
| 11 | I think it was Angie and Tony , going back to that incredible support that I told you about when I first met them , that they were also dreamers and had such faith and believed in David 's future and his destiny . |
| 12 | But in the severe turbulence that I encountered I had no control over my canopy and there was very little that I could do . |
| 13 | And you look so topping in that dress that I thought you might be a sport . |
| 14 | Er and the only reason that I thought they may have been favourable , would have been based on the principle of fair play , but then erm when you think of er companies who are making profits from year to year which were in excess of the previous years , then by the time three years expired , our members could have been in a loss situation , if indeed they had n't gone forward and argued the case at domestic level . |
| 15 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 16 | He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him . |
| 17 | If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you |
| 18 | You 've got ta stick to the same order that I showed you this morning , yeah ? |
| 19 | Er , it was the best word that I felt I could use at this time , it may be that a , if a debate ensues from this , or from er , other er , writings about , of myself and other people over this next few months , that a term will emerge that people feel happy with , but certainly we are talking about community partnership . |
| 20 | I would have sworn at that time that I loved her as much as she did me , more even , but subsequent events proved me wrong . |
| 21 | Er , I am mindful chairman that I embarrassed you acutely at the end of education meeting on Friday , erm , and I know that I , I have a circumstance coming up in February , where I have a child who is unexpectedly on a training day , erm , on a day where I actually have two meetings of this council , now either I get substituted , or we arrange for a one off carer situation . |
| 22 | ‘ I told you in my letter last week that I wanted you to arrange for me to meet him . |
| 23 | Apart from my earlier comment that I felt it might be slightly otiose in the fact that you 've suggested within the preamble that a new settlement should be located beyond the outer boundary and I did raise the question of whether there was another greenbelt which may come into play . |
| 24 | Playing tunes that bring a smile to my face and a sentimental tear to my eye , for the last time that I heard them was the day of the first Gittel 's wedding . |