Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that i [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange .
2 And do lots of things that I knew he was capable of doing .
3 ‘ 'T WAS on the Isle of Capreee that I found her … ’
4 ‘ T'was on the isle of Capri that I met her … ’
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 And by that I was looking at er things like discussing with Alan that I felt we were un under , had , had less management time than we should .
8 It has made me question every aspect of my teaching , including things that I thought I was doing well !
9 Although Korda was now more of a financier than an active producer , it was his suggestion that led Graham Greene to visit Austria to see if he could find the background in the four-power occupation of Vienna which would inspire him to extend his one-line story : ‘ I had paid my last farewell to Harry less than a week ago , when his coffin was lowered in the frozen February ground , so that it was with incredulity that I saw him pass by , without a sign of recognition , among the host of strangers in the Strand . ’
10 It was in May that I met her , on a return visit to Cley .
11 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 .
12 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 . ’
13 ‘ I was n't ; it was only when I was talking about it to Gina that I thought I ought to come here and tell you . ’
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