Example sentences of "that [pers pn] came " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only after extensive reading through the writings of many authors that I came across the work which undoubtedly gave the author this particular inspiration . |
| 2 | I have dreamed that I came back here — in twenty years . |
| 3 | It was after the boy was born that I came to live in London . |
| 4 | Thank goodness that I came back this morning . ’ |
| 5 | That I am living in Britain in the first place has everything to do with the fact that I came here to start the magazine you are reading , a magazine for men . |
| 6 | It was a month yesterday , I thought , that I came here . |
| 7 | ‘ But you must not think it is only to bring you charity that I came . |
| 8 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 9 | I have fished all over Scotland but the first place that I came across this system , which is used to distribute available fishing fairly amongst guests , was at Scourie , and it works very well indeed . |
| 10 | It was through this work that I came to hear of the case of Dr Ron Carrington , a 35-year-old psychiatrist . |
| 11 | It was in this cave that I came across another example of Yorkshire wit : revealed in the light of a torch was a daubed inscription on the wall of the cave , ‘ J. CAESAR B.C. 44 ’ . |
| 12 | I had n't intended to speak on the external affairs section , but the discussion had widened so much that I came in with the attached remarks . |
| 13 | An excellent overview of organisational communication research written specifically with reference to the external organisational environment appears in a valuable compendium Handbook of organizational communication — a volume that in this context I am not ashamed to admit that I came across just by chance in a bookshop whilst looking for something completely different ! |
| 14 | In this I may be vulnerable , for I was on the lookout for miracles and it was while watching Nancy , listening to her and eventually breaking my own icy shield and talking to her , that I came close to seeing what I was looking for . |
| 15 | Indeed , it was watching television recently that I came to the conclusion that what the Lord 's Day Observance Society needs is a good PR man . |
| 16 | I was having some of my aquatint plates of the Lake District steel-faced and when , in conversation with Mr. McQueen , he discovered that I came from this area , he recalled that in the past his forebears had printed for another artist from the Lakes . |
| 17 | Thus it was with pleasure that I came across this series of ‘ cartoon stories for adults of any age ’ , created by French scientist Jean-Pierre Petit . |
| 18 | It was at this point that I came face to face with the realisation that human beings could be studied like other animals , and I went on , past chimpanzees , to investigate the behaviour of this strange creature that I christened The Naked Ape . |
| 19 | That has given the whole company a step up , including Crate , who , as we mentioned earlier , are now making use of the systems that I came here with . ’ |
| 20 | It was in 1945 that I came back to England after five years ' absence in Greece and Egypt . |
| 21 | It 's so good that I came to know Jesus as Lord before this silly disease got so bad . |
| 22 | It was only years later that I came to learn that the easily remembered collects were those that had been translated by Archbishop Cranmer from the Sacramentaries of Popes Leo , Gregory and Gelasius , while the difficult ones to remember were in almost every case the work of reformers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 23 | It was with this old — and , to my mind , unresolved — dispute at the back of my mind that I came to write ‘ Hylas Fights Back ’ . |
| 24 | The President was amused , conceding that not much cricket or rugby was played in the United States , but as a sports fan himself he understood — especially as a Southerner , aware of the significance of sport in the Deep South , and of the fact that I came from an ever Deeper South than he did … |
| 25 | And much as I coveted a wonderful watercolour by Albert that I came across in an Alice Springs gallery for 4,000 dollars I was even more taken with the traditional native art , particularly since it seemed to offer useful hints about a problem I had of seeing the outback in ways other than through the window-on-the-world vision that developed in Renaissance Italy . |
| 26 | Maybe it is time that I came in out of the storm . " |
| 27 | It was through the Society 's occasional Newsletter that I came to hear about , and attend , a residential weekend course at Horn castle College of Adult Education in Lincolnshire . |
| 28 | He laughed back when I told him that I came from a poor barrio in Britain and that we were no longer referred to as people either . |
| 29 | " I tried the Univite diet and any other diet from a women 's magazine that I came across . |
| 30 | ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’ |