Example sentences of "that [pers pn] sometimes [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were fairly frequent serious and ‘ humorous ’ comments made in the staffroom and at the dinner table that I sometimes challenged . |
| 2 | I once shocked him by admitting that I sometimes took it in my tea . |
| 3 | This doubt of not quite knowing so worried me that I sometimes approached my visualization as if addressing a public meeting . |
| 4 | I was enjoying Oxford so much that I sometimes forgot that moment in Clare 's bedroom when I made my decision about my future vocation . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , there are so many bolts from so many routes on this dome that I sometimes found it difficult to stay on route . |
| 6 | But Kay has admitted ( in her charming Ivy and Stevie ) that she sometimes had difficulty in deciphering her notes , and that Ivy was often mysterious and contradictious . |
| 7 | She was single-minded and uncompromising in her work , so that she sometimes provoked exasperation among her colleagues , a feeling immediately tempered by the admiration they felt . |
| 8 | She had a vision of him sometimes , struggling for breath beneath the crassness of her impulses , in the same way that she sometimes imagined her fattening body to be asphyxiating his small fine frame in bed . |
| 9 | Though what she said was that you sometimes had what she called ‘ bad turns ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ When I went to old Abuelo Freitas , Maria told me that you sometimes worried too much about him — that you did n't understand that he only wanted to be left alone . |
| 11 | If there is to be any criticism of our play , it is in relation to our tactical awareness , to the fact that we sometimes made wrong choices which more experienced people would not have made ’ . |
| 12 | This power given to individuals by the Spirit is not the naked ruach that we sometimes met with in the Old Testament days in men like Saul and Samson . |
| 13 | This , he claimed , meant that they sometimes had to act more rather than less on their own initiative . |
| 14 | The percentage reporting that they sometimes felt lonely increased from 10 per cent of males and 16 per cent of females aged 70 — 74 to 18 per cent and 27 per cent respectively of those aged 85 + ( Victor 1987 ) . |
| 15 | In fact , the whole programme had an unsually philosophical undercurrent ( quoting , for example , philosopher Mary Midgeley ) — so much so that it sometimes seemed less like a current affairs report than an enquiry into a fundamental shift in Western attitudes to nature . |
| 16 | Except for the few who tended , from time to time , to inconvenience the landlord by dying there , passing so imperceptibly that it sometimes went unnoticed for an hour or two , from a state which had not really been living at all . |
| 17 | The fact that it sometimes did not work after that operation was incidental . |
| 18 | The ghost of my son pursued me yet , his translucent image being reflected from the trunk of every tree , so that it sometimes appeared ahead of me as well as on every side . |
| 19 | Such a weight of worry and terror and contempt had been lifted off his shoulders that he sometimes thought , when the end-music started up beneath the wagon and the audience began to toss like a field of corn , that he could spread his arms , if he wanted , and soar off his ledge , above their heads and round the church tower . |
| 20 | Alexander ‘ I am in control ’ Haig , Nixon 's last national security assistant , was quoted as saying that he sometimes had to act as president when ‘ Nixon was drunk . ’ |
| 21 | Untaught , he did what he could ; and it seemed to many of his colleagues , professionals or not , that he sometimes played at it , doing the things he thought secret agents did , even when they were unnecessary . |
| 22 | There is no reason to suppose that she and Mozart did not discuss his work together , and that he sometimes took her advice . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , little is known about how Æthelred raised tributes : the charter S 943 of 1006x11 shows that he sometimes sold land for the purpose , but as the national council ( the witan ) usually participated in the decision to pay , the main burden almost certainly fell on the people . |
| 24 | I remember the editor of ITN saying at a meeting in the 1960s that he sometimes wished he could precede every bulletin with : ‘ Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world went about their lives today without anything unusual happening to them . |
| 25 | He was also a vegetarian , although the story goes that Chapman persuaded him to eat steaks after hearing that he sometimes felt faint when heading a ball . |
| 26 | The name is a reference to Mr Donovan 's evidence that he sometimes applied lemon juice to lighten his hair , although never bleach . |
| 27 | A curiosity in Enescu 's output is the way that he sometimes bracketed under the same opus number works of the same genre but widely separated in time : the two Op. 24 piano sonatas of 1924 and 1935 , for example ( the latter in fact called No. 3 , since the composer confessed that No. 2 existed only in his head and was never written down ) , or the more extreme case of the two Op. 26 cello sonatas of 1898 and 1935 . |
| 28 | If Cnut was primarily responsible for the expulsion it would show that he sometimes dealt in a fairly high-handed manner with ecclesiastics who incurred his displeasure . |
| 29 | Indeed he claimed that he sometimes drew upon his knowledge of British policies and methods — past and present — when developing his own ideas . |
| 30 | Little wonder that he sometimes gave the impression of inattentiveness in class ; he was inebriated in a world of letters , engulfed by an avalanche of ideas and images , forms and metres , essays and critiques : a fast-changing , provocative kaleidoscope which took his already well-stocked and fertile mind to fresh heights . |