Example sentences of "that i had [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir , It is a sad reflection on the high street banks ' attitude to their customers that I had to rely on FARMERS WEEKLY for financial information vital to the overall profitability of my farming business . |
| 2 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 3 | Food was short and for two days I was kept running round trying to buy up supplies , with the result that I had to retire to bed with blistered feet . |
| 4 | Although it would be mad to claim that I felt happy , my first feeling was one of cheer that I had escaped from prison . |
| 5 | It was with deep regret that I had to leave for home later that evening . |
| 6 | Of course he was n't always there because frequently there were notes from his mother to say that he had earache or something , but later on I realized , of course , that those notes had been faked , the same as the notes that I had sent to school from my mother several generations before that . |
| 7 | Given that they had the ‘ weather works ’ that day in the shape of sleet , hail , wind and rain , whilst simultaneously a view of quite a lot of snow on Vesuvius , I was glad that I had stayed at home with a good book . |
| 8 | It was not with my reason that I had fallen in love with him and come to live with him , but it was with my reason that I was going to leave him . |
| 9 | ‘ The first time I met her , while I was working for him , I think she knew that I had fallen in love with him and yet she was kinder to me than anyone I 've ever known . |
| 10 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 11 | He added , alarmingly , of the November shipment : ‘ I know that that is in my memory that I had heard of France being connected with such a thing . ’ |
| 12 | He picked up one of those brown shiny golf-balls that I had seen at Pike 's and rolled it across the desk to me . |
| 13 | Now that I had turned against John to protect myself , everybody blamed me . |
| 14 | Those were the words that I had written for Antoinette ! |
| 15 | Andrew agreed , and told Service that I had gone to China and was engaged in broadcasting work there . |
| 16 | I told them that I was British , that I had gone to Stuttgart under the British flag . |
| 17 | Major Hal , who met us on arrival , insisted that I had qualified for membership in the ‘ Short-Snorters ’ Club ’ . |
| 18 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 19 | For so long I resisted any change to my hairstyle — I thought I knew what suited me — I was entrenched in an image that I had held from years gone by . |
| 20 | I held up a bottle of Long John that I had brought from Helsinki . |
| 21 | Everything here seemed so unreal that I had to come to terms with it as soon as possible , so that I can begin work . |
| 22 | I peered down and for a moment believed that I had come on Percy Bysshe Shelley . |
| 23 | He had such a talent for self-dramatisation that I would n't have put it past him , on finding that plunger , to have invented the whole thing — except that I had watched in horror as he deliberately forced the wretched mestizo over the edge , thrusting at his face with that dummy hand until he had disappeared into the gorge below . |
| 24 | Quite apart from the sheer mystery of all that I had to behold on arrival at an up-to-date operational station . |