Example sentences of "a [noun] that i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ 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 . " |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was only a chance that I rang her . |
| 4 | Then his wife was frightened , and she said , " It is only a tale that I told you to ease your heart . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At least I you see , with the virus I was sometimes in such a state that I thought I might have bowel cancer |
| 8 | 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 . ‘ |
| 9 | I was shaken by its totality , its danger — here was a being that I knew I would die for without hesitation . |
| 10 | ‘ Sexual liberation ’ , the appearance of pornography seemed , again , to have a freedom and an ease that I thought I did n't have . |