Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [pron] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was not until I saw how Messer Bartolomeo 's news was received by your friends that I realised its importance for you . ’ |
| 2 | But you who knew me , pass on these words : that I squandered my youth for my country , that while the ship was fighting I kept to my post up in the cross trees and , when she sank-I went down with her . ’ ’ |
| 3 | We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently . |
| 4 | The bat flitted so low that I saw its silhouette for a brief moment against the Milky Way . |
| 5 | I hope that I chose my words with some care ; I do not want to add to them . |
| 6 | It was during my visit that I made my acquaintance with Woolworths and thought it a marvellous store with goods that were priced at either 3d or 6d ; the firm did not arrive in Salisbury until 1927 . |
| 7 | I remember that I left my bag on the table for a few minutes at coffee time in the afternoon . ’ |
| 8 | Nor was it mere coincidence that I arranged my holiday for a special part of September . |
| 9 | I felt relieved that I had my scar from the fight at the summer party and so looked the same as everybody else — I was afraid of appearing different or clever which meant that I would be noticed by the Corporals and picked on by all the others . |
| 10 | At this distance in time , I can not pretend that I had my doubts about its merits : what I did dwell on was a certain psychological subtlety in retailing the author 's love-life , though in terms which today would he considered ludicrously niminy-piminy . |
| 11 | The first is that I felt my battle to be with authority , whether in the form of teachers , matrons , parents , or even nature itself . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I must say that I enjoyed my time in hospital . |
| 14 | One evening as I was nearing Farr 's entrance , I was running , tripped , with the result that I banged my head on the pavement . |
| 15 | It was on Stephen Leacock 's advice that I tried my hand at writing humour and found it very arduous work ; writing ordinary prose was hard enough , but trying to make it funny was even harder . |
| 16 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 17 | They suffered me to the extent that I did my column for 530 weeks in a row but over the years there was more and more of a crackdown on giving me facilities in the office . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I must confess , my dear Fanny ( his sister ) , that I found your judgement of him was inadequate ; perhaps , too , he may not have been in the mood for playing when you heard him , which is probably often the case ; but I was again enchanted by his playing , and I am convinced that if you , and Father too , had heard some of his best things in the way he played them to me , you would say the same . |
| 20 | You will now release me : the resulting implication being that I bought my freedom at the expense of his . |
| 21 | The impression you gave that I provided your reporter with new information following the meeting is totally false . |
| 22 | Erm I did give out a plea about two hours ago that I lost my umbrella at the music festival this weekend . |