Example sentences of "[noun] that i [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 2 | ‘ It was only during the afternoon that I remembered it was my 15th birthday . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ That sound changes as I go from the window that I picked it up in , to a different window , or to the desktop . ’ |
| 4 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 5 | I was so carried away by the wisdom of my hon. Friend 's question that I found it necessary to repeat it . |
| 6 | But once I have the thing and make it available , and say here is the gift that I promised it 's yours , it 's available , then , all you have to do is come and take it . |
| 7 | It was only when friends accused me of being a pompous , humourless prat that I realised it was meant as a joke . |
| 8 | Apart from my earlier comment that I felt it might be slightly otiose in the fact that you 've suggested within the preamble that a new settlement should be located beyond the outer boundary and I did raise the question of whether there was another greenbelt which may come into play . |
| 9 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 10 | No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago . |
| 11 | that 's the way that I saw it . |
| 12 | th th that I have stamped the date that I received it , |
| 13 | Early in my first tour I argued with my colleagues that I doubted it would be possible to ditch a Wimpy or a Whitley on water , particularly if there was a heavy swell . |
| 14 | And just keep a record of the time that I recorded it and er a little bit I 've just got to give the first names of the people that were talking but it 's done anonymously so there 's no no problem with that . |
| 15 | It 's small wonder that this plateau has claimed lives , since in the weather that I experienced it 's impossible to have any sense of direction at all without the constant use of a compass and map . |
| 16 | The fact that I knew it was wicked to expose my smooth bare slit gave me a feeling both of pleasure and of power , never vocalised . |
| 17 | ( The fact that I found it offensive to have to make any such argument for human equality shows that I was working with an ethical a priori approach , but I believe that a case can be made . ) |