Example sentences of "this [noun] that i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 On the other hand , it was on this condition that I joined your company : you agreed that should your business ever go public , I would have fifteen per cent of the equity for the nominal sum of fifteen thousand pounds .
2 It was at this moment that I decided I must learn to dance , so that I could stay on at the pensione instead of roaming about .
3 And so it was in the light of this suspicion that I examined my friend 's body and my own .
4 And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force .
5 I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness .
6 If you were a professional model I should probably require you to take every stitch of clothing off , let alone your shoes and stockings , and , if you will remember , it is on the grounds of the business-like aspect of this arrangement that I have your aunt 's sanction to paint you .
7 Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself .
8 So I 'm hoping that this system that I give you will allow you to do that , anybody been a best man at a wedding ?
9 It was during this visit that I realized what people must have gone through simply to immigrate to the United States .
10 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 .
11 The draft reply contained one threat to report I M R O to the Securities and Investment Board for excessive enquiries er and for an unreasonable attitude and the other er bit of the reply was effectively a form of covering up presenting full financial information and disclosure to I M R O. Those replies were drafted by people inside the Maxwell organisation and you may want to comment on er the position , although I should stress at this stage that I like you have not seen the final version of any reply and I do not know whether I M R O persisted .
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