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

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1 You see and that al old aunt that I told you about she always referred this road through as the new road .
2 It was only when friends accused me of being a pompous , humourless prat that I realised it was meant as a joke .
3 No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago .
4 Carson was such an affable chap that I persuaded him to agree with me ( and Alf ) to continue along progressive lines .
5 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 .
6 But in the severe turbulence that I encountered I had no control over my canopy and there was very little that I could do .
7 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 .
8 So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do .
9 He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him .
10 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 .
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