Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [that] i [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 [ reading ] " I always thought my young master a fine gentleman as everybody says he is , but he gave these good things to us with such a graciousness that I thought he looked like an angel . "
2 You , who wanted me to enter you on the same night , with the same sound still in my head , a sound that I knew I had somehow , somewhere , heard before .
3 It was only a chance that I rang her .
4 Then his wife was frightened , and she said , " It is only a tale that I told you to ease your heart .
5 At least I you see , with the virus I was sometimes in such a state that I thought I might have bowel cancer
6 I was shaken by its totality , its danger — here was a being that I knew I would die for without hesitation .
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