Example sentences of "a [noun] that i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | because where all the sort of a route that I reckon I know I , I am not gon na know it all . |
| 2 | I started — and still do — in a field that I call my Chagall field because Chagall once painted one exactly like it . |
| 3 | [ reading ] " I always thought my young master a fine gentleman as everybody says he is , but he gave these good things to us with such a graciousness that I thought he looked like an angel . " |
| 4 | It is as a stranger that I greet my own self , and see it as an unknown fellow traveller through time . |
| 5 | You , who wanted me to enter you on the same night , with the same sound still in my head , a sound that I knew I had somehow , somewhere , heard before . |
| 6 | It was only a chance that I rang her . |
| 7 | Then his wife was frightened , and she said , " It is only a tale that I told you to ease your heart . |
| 8 | Clearly it was I who should have spoken these words , but already I had a feeling that I knew what the brown paper and the ribbed cardboard concealed , and I was n't going to say a word until time or circumstance compelled me . |
| 9 | In actual fact my walking stick and gloves are ( I am almost too ashamed to admit ) an elaborate affectation which has by degrees grown into such a habit that I find it difficult , if not impossible , to lay them aside . |
| 10 | Mind you I was glad cos I got hell of a temper that I kept myself alright cos I was gon na swing for her like . |
| 11 | At least I you see , with the virus I was sometimes in such a state that I thought I might have bowel cancer |
| 12 | She even told Sybil that the frog in the school pond was enchanted , and poor Sybil was in such a state that I thought someone ought to teach Mildred a lesson . ‘ |
| 13 | I was shaken by its totality , its danger — here was a being that I knew I would die for without hesitation . |
| 14 | But in those rare flashes when one can shed the present self and all it is in command of I realise that there were really only two occasions when I did personally feel the times on my pulse in such a way that I remember them , and not what I have since reconstructed of them . |
| 15 | Cos I have got a verruca the si anyway that 's a problem that I have I do n't really want to share it with you . |
| 16 | ‘ Sexual liberation ’ , the appearance of pornography seemed , again , to have a freedom and an ease that I thought I did n't have . |
| 17 | It 's only when I 'm writing an article that I give it its proper name ! |