Example sentences of "the [noun] [that] i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her .
2 It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place .
3 ‘ It was only during the afternoon that I remembered it was my 15th birthday . ’
4 It was through the OTC that I met my future husband , Eric , who was at that time a permanent staff instructor .
5 And the story that I heard which may not be true that he had he did n't have the wig and gown .
6 I started off the way I write every album — wrote a couple of songs , got a feel for the music and called up the musicians that I thought I could do the songs with .
7 It was only when I got home and looked up the dictionary that I realised what a gem it had been .
8 Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third .
9 John , of Pontypridd , Mid Glamorgan , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't until I came to pay for a car at the auction that I realised what I 'd done .
10 ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’
11 Advanced age had by now somewhat mellowed my mother , with the result that I enjoyed my visits to the palace , for when the subject was other than myself she could be stimulating and amusing company .
12 We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently .
13 One evening as I was nearing Farr 's entrance , I was running , tripped , with the result that I banged my head on the pavement .
14 Then there was the women 's clothes shop at Number 133 with its dresses in the window that I felt I would never be able to afford .
15 ‘ That sound changes as I go from the window that I picked it up in , to a different window , or to the desktop . ’
16 And that was the film with the scene of the boy coming into the bar that I said I thought of when I saw Boy coming in sometimes .
17 I knew whenever I saw her , first time I was in the shop that I recognized her from somewhere .
18 ‘ He never once put his hand into his box all the years that I served him , ’ meaning he never gave me a gift of money , a bonus for service above and beyond the call of time .
19 But once I have the thing and make it available , and say here is the gift that I promised it 's yours , it 's available , then , all you have to do is come and take it .
20 I can give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking — it is of the sort that I gave him in Committee — that I believe that many things should be done with the extra resources that we shall have , and in the context of administrative matters the care of records is relevant .
21 That was the point that I heard him make in Brighton .
22 If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day .
23 Inside the jacket that I lent her , she shivers .
24 But the old market square was still there , the ferry to North Shields ; Ocean Road , the Town Hall , the Library , Trow Rocks , the sands , the pier … . ft was on the pier that I made my first stumbling attempts to start writing poetry on my own again ; my very own poetry :
25 one or two members who are resident in St Albans did ask me about their position on item two St Albans Transport Study er the advice that I gave them was that unless they er did which is likely to be affected by any identifiable schemes in the study they do not have a need to declare either a pecuniary or a non-pecuniary interest .
26 We had passed so close to the Dutchman that I thought we must have run over his foot .
27 ‘ I was shocked in the sense that I knew what inspectors could do , but I was n't worried because I thought they were just wasting their time . ’
28 And we saw that in the calculation that I gave you at the end of last week 's lecture .
29 And all the lies that I told you were to try to escape the lie that was my life .
30 We 've , we 've just been told to write it about either kidnapping or erm about the thing that I told you
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