Example sentences of "[noun pl] that i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just taking aye , just songs that I liked and I just er take them off tapes and , and records , and I just write them down , |
| 2 | It was in this splendid fifteenth-century monument to the high architectural taste of the Catholic sovereigns that I read a message written by a fifteenth-century schoolboy on his classroom wall : Aquí supo lo que es bueno , y lo que es malo , / Lo que es dulce , y lo que es amaro ( Here I had knowledge of what is good , and of what is bad , / Of what is sweet , and of what is bitter ) . |
| 3 | Once again i caught on the three methods that I thought would work on the day and to say the least I was more than confident of getting good points . |
| 4 | No matter how carefully I listened , and the faintest signals that I dug up , all my finds proved to be items of 17th century date . |
| 5 | There was little to repel a European , yet it was with wide eyes that I saw a ‘ Trans-World Tours ’ motor coach taking its pale-skinned passengers through the town . |
| 6 | There was none of the humour you usually saw in it , and there was a fixed look about the eyes that I found almost frightening . |
| 7 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
| 8 | ‘ It was just that you seemed so interested in my being one of the survivors that I got quite the wrong initial impression . ’ |
| 9 | So marked were my anxieties that I buried that experience for several years . |
| 10 | It was only after extensive reading through the writings of many authors that I came across the work which undoubtedly gave the author this particular inspiration . |
| 11 | Yet some of the people concerned would be people I was at school with ; and in any case it would cal 1 upon questions and allegiances that I had continuously pushed into the rear recesses of my mind . |
| 12 | I kept myself very busy anyway erm in various erm hobbies that I had . |
| 13 | And there 's a lot of erm new books that I got last years for the library |
| 14 | I like the books , the original books that I had when I was a little rather than the new books . |
| 15 | The nose and beard also seemed to imply , to produce , to secrete constantly a certain kind of mind which had nothing to do with the intelligence diffused throughout the books , books that I knew so intimately , and which were permeated by a gentle and God-like wisdom . ’ |
| 16 | The altitude is not very good for some of them : a box of old books that I found had congealed together with the damp and had I dared to try and pull one out from the row of upturned spines , to identify it , all the others would have risen too . |
| 17 | There are two other books that I co-authored which cover this aspect . |
| 18 | I gave thanks that I had time and energy to simply enjoy and absorb . |
| 19 | There 's a few things we need from the shops that I did n't get yesterday . |
| 20 | ‘ I was so wrapped up in my own performances that I needed someone with experience to help . |
| 21 | I could see through slitted eyes many people who had the comfort of being three-dimensional , walking and talking words that I knew . |
| 22 | Those were the words that I had written for Antoinette ! |
| 23 | This was a very great help to me , because I was able to learn the meaning of many words that I had not been able to understand before . |
| 24 | The last words that I heard were , ‘ Good night , Piper , I shall leave the door open . ’ |
| 25 | The first words that I understood were words like ‘ fire ’ , and ‘ bread ’ . |
| 26 | I have no doubt that were he here today he would tell us that he was merely offering the hypothesis as a basis for argument ; but bearing in mind that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is the author of the words that I uttered a moment or two ago in support of the analysis of the historical nature of the government of Scotland , the Government should certainly take some account of this further straw in the wind . |
| 27 | She gave such an unpleasant laugh with these last words that I did n't know what to say , and as I left the house I felt even more miserable . |
| 28 | It was on these - " moderate " walks that I came to appreciate the astonishing versatility of' the Dales , how inhospitably barren they can look from the brow of one hill , then how welcomingly like the gentle South Downs from the next ; how one village , little more than a pub and a row of stone cottages , might be as gaunt and forbidding as some remote Highland hamlet , while another will be so prettified and roses-round-the-door picturesque that , but for the backcloth of soaring hills or looming crags , and the uncoursed rubble walls wending like strips of children 's Plasticine up to the horizon , it could be in Mummerset . |
| 29 | He was sure I was going to be sent to Siberia but I 'd given him all my film and all the pictures that I 'd taken already . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |