Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] be [adv] [that] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point , someone might rightly argue : ‘ I happen to live on earth , and it is here that I want to have a happy marriage ! ’ |
| 2 | I was now completely in the dark and it was here that I would shoot whatever film I had onto the skirting board of my makeshift cinema . |
| 3 | When my children were very small we used to live on the outskirts of Richmond Park , where every day I used to take my eldest child for a walk , and it was here that I first began to collect horse mushrooms . |
| 4 | The workshop classes were a mixture of all grades of academy , and it was here that I found common ground absorbing my trade instruction ; and happily in this field I was able not to be as conspicuous as I was at school . |
| 5 | We were fortunate in having an outdoor swimming-pool , and it was there that I learned to swim , and have continued to enjoy swimming the rest of my life . |
| 6 | So I closed all those books and it was then that I opened up my eyes and looked around me and said , ‘ Now I 'm reading ’ . ’ |
| 7 | And it was then that I almost tripped over her . ’ |
| 8 | And it was then that I touched flesh . |
| 9 | In return she sent me her third and latest novel , A View of the Harbour : and it was then that I recognized her as the author of At Mrs Lippincote 's . |
| 10 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |
| 11 | I stopped going to school when I was thirteen getting on fourteen , and it was then that I started getting into trouble , running away from home and thieving . |
| 12 | Andrew Stavanger was compelled to turn to the bank for help after the dock strikes , and it was then that I got to know him . |
| 13 | It was duly arranged that we should meet after work , and it was then that I gave him further details about my ‘ sponsored ’ trip to Paris and about my much more ambitious idea of a trip to Libya . |
| 14 | The young boy was extremely embarrassed but soon swallowed his pride and climbed back into his canoe while we all fell about with laughter around him and it was then that I heard the bang . |
| 15 | You have the facility to slow the music down to half speed , but it is here that I think Ibanez have missed the point . |
| 16 | You must think me very silly but it 's just that I 'm so excited ! |