Example sentences of "the [noun sg] that i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |
| 2 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 3 | ‘ It was only during the afternoon that I remembered it was my 15th birthday . ’ |
| 4 | It was through the OTC that I met my future husband , Eric , who was at that time a permanent staff instructor . |
| 5 | And the story that I heard which may not be true that he had he did n't have the wig and gown . |
| 6 | It was only when I got home and looked up the dictionary that I realised what a gem it had been . |
| 7 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 8 | John , of Pontypridd , Mid Glamorgan , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't until I came to pay for a car at the auction that I realised what I 'd done . |
| 9 | ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently . |
| 12 | One evening as I was nearing Farr 's entrance , I was running , tripped , with the result that I banged my head on the pavement . |
| 13 | Then there was the women 's clothes shop at Number 133 with its dresses in the window that I felt I would never be able to afford . |
| 14 | ‘ That sound changes as I go from the window that I picked it up in , to a different window , or to the desktop . ’ |
| 15 | And that was the film with the scene of the boy coming into the bar that I said I thought of when I saw Boy coming in sometimes . |
| 16 | I knew whenever I saw her , first time I was in the shop that I recognized her from somewhere . |
| 17 | But once I have the thing and make it available , and say here is the gift that I promised it 's yours , it 's available , then , all you have to do is come and take it . |
| 18 | I can give the hon. Gentleman the undertaking — it is of the sort that I gave him in Committee — that I believe that many things should be done with the extra resources that we shall have , and in the context of administrative matters the care of records is relevant . |
| 19 | That was the point that I heard him make in Brighton . |
| 20 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 21 | Inside the jacket that I lent her , she shivers . |
| 22 | But the old market square was still there , the ferry to North Shields ; Ocean Road , the Town Hall , the Library , Trow Rocks , the sands , the pier … . ft was on the pier that I made my first stumbling attempts to start writing poetry on my own again ; my very own poetry : |
| 23 | one or two members who are resident in St Albans did ask me about their position on item two St Albans Transport Study er the advice that I gave them was that unless they er did which is likely to be affected by any identifiable schemes in the study they do not have a need to declare either a pecuniary or a non-pecuniary interest . |
| 24 | We had passed so close to the Dutchman that I thought we must have run over his foot . |
| 25 | ‘ I was shocked in the sense that I knew what inspectors could do , but I was n't worried because I thought they were just wasting their time . ’ |
| 26 | And we saw that in the calculation that I gave you at the end of last week 's lecture . |
| 27 | We 've , we 've just been told to write it about either kidnapping or erm about the thing that I told you |
| 28 | I started off at the s at the start I was er I was getting mouth ulcers , and then well I did n't get them to the severity that I got them with the sulfasalazine |
| 29 | The uncertainty in the number that I gave you , about fifteen to eighteen billion years , is not in any sense an error due to inaccuracies of measurements of the rate at which the universe is currently expanding , but there are systematic differences of opinion about how one should calibrate the expansion rate , because people have different means of measuring the distance from us of the most luminous objects . |
| 30 | And the idea that I resisted her desire to vamoose from my apartment , that I was unmoved when she burst into tears — how could I , an aficionado of opera , fail to respond to lachrymosity ? — is a ridiculous exaggeration . |