Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] that i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , it was on this condition that I joined your company : you agreed that should your business ever go public , I would have fifteen per cent of the equity for the nominal sum of fifteen thousand pounds . |
| 2 | It was at this moment that I decided I must learn to dance , so that I could stay on at the pensione instead of roaming about . |
| 3 | And so it was in the light of this suspicion that I examined my friend 's body and my own . |
| 4 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 5 | I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness . |
| 6 | If you were a professional model I should probably require you to take every stitch of clothing off , let alone your shoes and stockings , and , if you will remember , it is on the grounds of the business-like aspect of this arrangement that I have your aunt 's sanction to paint you . |
| 7 | It is with some trepidation that I mention our feathered friends — LARUS CANUS — the common gull . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
| 9 | So I 'm hoping that this system that I give you will allow you to do that , anybody been a best man at a wedding ? |
| 10 | It was during this visit that I realized what people must have gone through simply to immigrate to the United States . |
| 11 | I was at this time that I renewed my acquaintance with Herbert Read , whom I had met first at Oxford in the company of Nevill Coghill . |
| 12 | The draft reply contained one threat to report I M R O to the Securities and Investment Board for excessive enquiries er and for an unreasonable attitude and the other er bit of the reply was effectively a form of covering up presenting full financial information and disclosure to I M R O. Those replies were drafted by people inside the Maxwell organisation and you may want to comment on er the position , although I should stress at this stage that I like you have not seen the final version of any reply and I do not know whether I M R O persisted . |
| 13 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 14 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 15 | Well I mean it 's gone much beyond that I mean they the reality of the situation is er is not like that I 'm afraid I mean it Eighteen men have been sacked and and these are men that have put those quarries where they are . |
| 16 | It is with much concern that I find myself unable to comply with a request from you and Mr. Browne , but indeed you pay me too great a compliment in supposing me capable of writing upon any subject that is proposed to me . |
| 17 | The wireless and the cinema gave me such enjoyment that I decided I 'd become an actor , a film star . |
| 18 | He graced his office with dignity and performed his duties with such excellence that I know I may have difficulty in walking in his footsteps . |
| 19 | And you look so topping in that dress that I thought you might be a sport . |
| 20 | But it is not on that subject that I address you . |
| 21 | That walk that I 've one That I 've walked it twice , gone right out Glen Baily and right into Glen Shee and down Blackwater , down to the and come along and round in , thirteen mile Maybe twelve or thirteen miles . |
| 22 | It is for that reason that I include it on the shortlist for the Worst Building in the World title . |
| 23 | ‘ In the same battle that I lost my leg , old Pew lost his sight . |
| 24 | If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you |
| 25 | If I needed any proof that I bore you , that you do n't care about me — ’ |
| 26 | In the same way that I doubt your power of judgement . |
| 27 | I can not believe my luck that nobody else had the sense to carry you off but that you should still be there for me and that — ’ Well , that could be taken two ways , on second thoughts that might not be the thing to say , no ; ‘ my luck that you should want me in the same way that I want you . |
| 28 | I speak without volition , in the same way that I do everything else . |
| 29 | You 've got ta stick to the same order that I showed you this morning , yeah ? |
| 30 | So alien was it to see Mary Joe playing that way that I suspect she was injured and an android had been substituted , and wrongly programmed . |