Example sentences of "[noun] that [vb past] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 2 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |
| 3 | That was the obsession that made me write this . ’ |
| 4 | But it was your axe that hit me , borne down by his sword . |
| 5 | At first I did n't believe her but there was something in her eyes that told me it was true . |
| 6 | But it was her eyes that startled me . |
| 7 | When I think of love or beauty or gardens , the images that moved me in my everyday life appear again and I feel the same sensations as when I first found them . |
| 8 | It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one . |
| 9 | Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’ |
| 10 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 11 | It was the therapy that gave me the strength to leave my girlfriend because through it I established the fact that I was prone to passivity , always waiting for other people to call the shots . |
| 12 | Thirdly , it was not just the bald declarations of innocence that impressed me , but the nature and quality of those declarations : there were passages in both books which , as in Meehan 's letters to me , had the sharp ring of truth . |
| 13 | It was probably the idea of having to hang on for no more than two months that convinced me of the value of these silly prophesies , but I was a true believer . |
| 14 | The boots have a Vibram dual density sole that gave me all the grip and comfort I needed over steep wet grass and rough ground . |
| 15 | It may have been the horse that roused me from my sleep . |
| 16 | ‘ It was the live side that struck me as being a bit special , ’ he says . |
| 17 | So in this merry mood of self flagellation I shall tell you the story of one monumental cock-up that taught me two very important lessons . |
| 18 | We talked a lot , laughed a lot , drank a lot — another round in the warming game of friendship that left me happy at the time , and aching afterwards as I contemplated the lonely bed . |
| 19 | I turned to go into the house , made with great difficulty the three or four steps that separated me from my room , and felt my arms and legs burning , also my body . |
| 20 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 21 | It was only this monthly accounting that worried me though , for I read every patient 's case notes with avidity . |
| 22 | And I chose a conception that promised me a child of certain defined personality characteristics as well as physical ones . |
| 23 | Then they cut the ropes that tied me and I was able to get to my feet . |
| 24 | It was your hair that got me . |
| 25 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 26 | Two years ago , I went on holiday to the States and witnessed scenes in clubs that made me realize women were n't as inhibited as I 'd thought . |
| 27 | Severed as I was from Father and from Helmut , living in a foreign country , was it the fear of further severance that kept me in this unequal concurrence ? |
| 28 | ‘ But this is the bit that took me longest to work out . |
| 29 | But it was quite a different contrast that struck me there in Alison 's kitchen : the aching disparity between the woman who stood there , impatient for me to be gone , and the one I was going home to . |
| 30 | It was Stu 's persistence that wore me down . |