Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believed for many years that I could move towards the future and leave the past behind , that there was no need for me to return home . |
| 2 | I was an incurable romantic and yearned for a romantic friendship before it would be too late , for I believed in those days that romantic friendship was possible only in youth . |
| 3 | After having carefully measured my horse 's girth and length from point of withers to top of tail , I discovered with some astonishment that my horse weighed 954 million pounds . |
| 4 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 5 | To my way of thinking you had seen too much of my secretary , I decided on that instant that to take you out of his vicinity was an excellent idea . ’ |
| 6 | I decided at that moment that I 'd had enough . ’ |
| 7 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 8 | But I loved the orchestra the moment I stood in front of it ; and I knew from that moment that wherever my musical life might lead me in the meantime , this was what I wanted . |
| 9 | I knew from that moment that it was only a question of time — and perseverance on his part — before he would be completely cured . |
| 10 | I understood from those words that the lives of all honest men on the ship depended on me alone ! |
| 11 | I went through these areas that I wanted to work in and I argued with Jeremy that we had n't allowed for ‘ things visual ’ , that we had a visual medium , that Britain was profoundly under-educated visually , so that we should actually use television for visual education and he fell for this . |
| 12 | I learned from that outing that there is in top-level racing , as well as intelligence , a physical dimension which is vastly important . |
| 13 | ( I learned from this experience that rigor mortis takes much longer to set in than I had supposed ; quite some time , in fact . ) |
| 14 | I said at half time that , if the players did n't make silly errors , the game was all over . |
| 15 | So I 'm not creeping back for my job but anything erm it 's not that and erm But the lads in the lodge sometimes you 've got to and er I 've got a bit of er well a speery voice you know rough so sometimes I get a little bit of control on them and erm also as I said about these chaps that are working , erm we 're not blind , we know what 's happening and we 've got sympathy even with them . |
| 16 | ‘ It may be more of an intuitive thing , but I considered at that time that there were shades of Edward VIII about him . |
| 17 | I decided to apply for some help , so my daughter Lilya ( Aliki ) and I wrote a letter to Andropov and Brezhnev , and I explained in these letters that what had been stolen was a large number of works from the collection that I had intended to give to the Tretyakov Gallery . |