Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [that] i [vb past] [pers pn] " 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 n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ That sound changes as I go from the window that I picked it up in , to a different window , or to the desktop . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I knew whenever I saw her , first time I was in the shop that I recognized her from somewhere . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That was the point that I heard him make in Brighton . |
| 12 | Inside the jacket that I lent her , she shivers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We had passed so close to the Dutchman that I thought we must have run over his foot . |
| 15 | And we saw that in the calculation that I gave you at the end of last week 's lecture . |
| 16 | We 've , we 've just been told to write it about either kidnapping or erm about the thing that I told you |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | that 's the way that I saw it . |
| 20 | He answered prayer not in the way I sought , Nor in the way that I thought he ought , But in his own good way , and I could see , He answered in the fashion best for me . |
| 21 | th th that I have stamped the date that I received it , |
| 22 | The sheet that I gave you . |
| 23 | It was n't until the party that I knew I could n't pretend to myself any longer . |
| 24 | That was something at the time that I felt I did n't really need myself . |
| 25 | ‘ But I knew at the time that I felt I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
| 26 | And just keep a record of the time that I recorded it and er a little bit I 've just got to give the first names of the people that were talking but it 's done anonymously so there 's no no problem with that . |
| 27 | It 's small wonder that this plateau has claimed lives , since in the weather that I experienced it 's impossible to have any sense of direction at all without the constant use of a compass and map . |
| 28 | the chap that I sent he thought he knew what a confined space was . |
| 29 | Of course , ’ he added with a twisted smile , ‘ it was n't until your last day in the office that I realised you were under the impression that it was I who 'd had the affair with Elise . ’ |
| 30 | My regard for her was reflected in the fact that I asked her to be my son , Giles 's godmother . |