Example sentences of "[adj] that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at times like this that I felt very small in the landscape . |
| 2 | It is at times like this that I regret not doing a scientific 0-level and becoming a brain surgeon so that no one would ask me to wash up or scrub floors . |
| 3 | It is this that I mean when I talk metaphorically about " wandering " through Biomorph Land . |
| 4 | The only other thing I have to put to you is this that I 've already put to er what we allege went on in that bedroom . |
| 5 | It was through the need to obtain money for this that I took the part-time job with Mrs Morton and her husband , Weary Willy . |
| 6 | I have always counted on my fingers and still do and I had been so nervous about this that I went to classes with the ATC in Darrowby before my call-up , dredging from my schooldays horrific calculations about trains passing each other at different speeds and water running in and out of bath tubs . |
| 7 | It is this that I had in mind in proposing at the outset my three notions and calling one of them , the last , language as replay . |
| 8 | So that 's three times this that I ate three of the |
| 9 | I do not mean by this that I expect managers to cry , or to clasp one another like footballers after a goal has been won . |
| 10 | It is on this that I lie and visualize the various ‘ assaults ’ upon my cancer cells that I have already described . |
| 11 | So appealing a plant do I find this that I have planted a ‘ fairy ring ’ of eight where the hurricane left a space . |
| 12 | I have lost so many big barbel on the Hampshire Avon , Dorset Stour , and the Severn through this that I have been ready to dispense altogether with swimfeeder fishing for big barbel . |
| 13 | These documents appear to be expanding in length daily , but the principal provisions tend to remain constant , and it is because of this that I have felt able to expound a series of amendments which I believe a commercial conveyancer should have in mind in considering the draft documentation . |
| 14 | What is this that I feel ? ’ |
| 15 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 16 | Also , I believe I made it clear that I knew what I wanted from a partnership with a sponsor and was precise and convincing in my presentation . |
| 17 | It was so clear that I knew I 'd been blind . |
| 18 | I know beyond question that I am Oedipus and he is I. I should make it clear that I hold no truck with the theory of reincarnation ; it is just as clear to me that I am Marie Romanov , whose life overlapped with mine . |
| 19 | Is it , is n't it clear that I get |
| 20 | Finally , foreign museums started contacting the Ministry of Culture and asking if they could buy , let us say , a picture by Malévich or Popova , and then it became clear that I had the pictures . |
| 21 | Once I realized I loved her and that she loved me it became clear that I had to leave my wife . |
| 22 | From a letter to my mother dated 2 May , which has escaped destruction , it is clear that I had just written to Eliot explaining that I realized the undesirability of publication , unless indeed Rowse himself were prepared to give it his endorsement . |
| 23 | Of course , you did make it clear that I had n't disturbed a lovers ’ tryst out there by the lake , so I 'm curious to know what did send you rushing through the grounds in such a state of agitation ? ’ |
| 24 | I have always made it clear that I take seriously any allegations of misbehaviour in any children 's home in Wales . |
| 25 | I made it clear that I wanted our discussion that morning to focus on business matters , but I realised that she had a need to talk to someone , preferably someone discreet . |
| 26 | This choice was helped to be made when one of them wrote me a nasty letter saying that it was clear that I wanted the other as my friend ( which , if I may say , was a lot of nonsense ) ! |
| 27 | The right hon. Gentleman said : ’ That is a firm commitment , costed and clear that I pledge our Labour Government will carry out . ’ |
| 28 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
| 29 | ‘ I just want to make clear that I pay you every correctitude for what you were involved in there . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I admired Lewis and his friends immensely , ’ Wain reported years later in an autobiography ; but ‘ already it was clear that I did not share their basic attitudes , ’ which were Christian , conservative and anti-modern . |