Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] i [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Francis looked so much worse in twelve hours that I had to control my expression when I went back to him . |
| 2 | My exposure to the energy and subtle abilities of my Subud brothers in Java had so ignited my optimism and sense of wonder concerning our hidden natures that I had wangled my way into Lancaster University 's Department of Comparative Religion to write a doctorate on transformational consciousness , in a field which was later to be referred to as psycho-anthropology . |
| 3 | ‘ I tell you , Charles , it was only after I heard that they 'd signed up Micky Banks that I agreed to do it . |
| 4 | It was the first time in years that I had blown my top in such a way , and I vowed that it would never happen again , that I would save all my aggression for the track . |
| 5 | Through the years that I 'd known him , I 'd watched him grow in mind and body and now felt a twinge of pride that he had grown so well . |
| 6 | It was when I started having health and financial problems that I began to re-evaluate my life , and I could see that it was an appalling misery . |
| 7 | He regarded it as one of my most endearing qualities that I seemed to want nothing from him . |
| 8 | What made it worse was that in order to explain the frustrations that I had experienced I found myself making stereotyping judgments about Africans as lazy — not even caring to look after themselves — and as unreliable . |
| 9 | Field work to acquire the specimens that I drew took me scuba-diving in the warm , subtropical waters of Natal and Zululand and braving seasickness on a research ship off the Transkei coast . |