Example sentences of "[adv] that i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found much that I identified with , the old lady looking in the TV shop window , enjoying all channels , one assumes , the ‘ Eye-drop ’ queue in the hospital . |
| 2 | Well I can say personally that I went from a size twelve to a twenty and its a medical problem , its the , not an eating one though , you know any thing to with any diet or any thing like that , completely medical so er it takes a bit of coping with when you 've been slim and then all of a sudden you have this weight that , no diet will remove . |
| 3 | So that I married into what you call a railway family . |
| 4 | She drew the word out , so that I heard in its simple syllable all the pain and hurt of the drug . |
| 5 | Then they felled me , so that I lay by Elsbeth and was as helpless as she . |
| 6 | Her hair was fair , so that I thought for a moment of the other woman I had met recently , Elizabeth Lavenza . |
| 7 | In some places there were nagging clouds of black flies , so that I climbed through the trees like a new Orestes , cursing and slapping . |
| 8 | It was half-hidden by mud , so that I trod on its legs before I realized . |
| 9 | It was some time after ten o'clock that I strolled through the gate on to the terrace . |
| 10 | Yes , yes , oh yes I 've well you know the fires on that I had in all the winter I 'm going to get on that today . |
| 11 | It 's just that I happened to . |
| 12 | ‘ Generally that I had to be convinced any person posed a risk — and to give a warning before I fired . ’ |
| 13 | Not that I planned on dying . |
| 14 | It was not that I objected to the public baths . |
| 15 | It is not that I inferred from the resemblance in shape that it was a man , until I began to doubt I was not thinking about it at all . |
| 16 | My youngest daughter Ella will be two on Sunday — yet it seems like only yesterday that I looked at her pink , scrunched-up face for the first time and fell in love with her funny , quirky personality . |
| 17 | It was not until years later that I heard about the societies known as Buffaloes and Foresters . |
| 18 | It was not until eleven years later that I returned to England and saw Biddy and Joe again , although I had been writing regularly to them . |
| 19 | It was to be many years later that I learned of the strictures Tata had accepted once he had proposed marriage to my mother , a Roman Catholic . |
| 20 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 21 | He had known where the coal was kept , and the Calor gas poker , and he had had a key — which , now that I thought about it , I should certainly have asked him to hand over to me … |
| 22 | And now that I thought about it , I had vaguely wondered at the ‘ good time ’ I had made on my walk from the cottage , and at the leisurely stretch of time I had had on the island . |
| 23 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |
| 24 | ‘ Now Bathsheba , ’ he said , laughing , ‘ you know very well that I had to be very careful , as a single man working for you , a good-looking young woman . |
| 25 | Had I read enough French novels at the time , I would have known what to expect ; and of course it was here that I fell in love for the first time . |
| 26 | Curiously enough , once Don was on , he took over so naturally and hilariously that I forgot to be frightened , had a thoroughly rumbustious time and breezed through the remainder of the show . |
| 27 | IT WAS the middle of the week when the Marui Pipeline Masters should have been on and was n't that I ran into Pottz in D'Amicos . |
| 28 | It was then that I went to school for the first time , to a Roman Catholic convent in Ealing , not because of my parents ' religious beliefs but because it was thought to be educationally superior to any of the state-run schools in the locality . |
| 29 | It was Joan who told me of her death , and it was probably then that I wrote to your father and we started to exchange Christmas cards . |
| 30 | This he did , and it was then that I experienced for the first time his unexpected propensity for one-liners , conjured out of thin air . |