Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that [vb past] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Although it looked completely different , it was this truck that gave me the concept for ‘ MiniMag ’ , the 27ft ( 8m ) articulated truck that we used for Mrs Thatcher 's open-air meetings in the 1987 election . |
| 4 | And , perhaps , with this act of treachery I can finally buy my freedom from the burden of buried horror that bound me to Andy twenty years ago , so that — dispossessed of that trespass — I 'm left free to betray him again , now . |
| 5 | And yet , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I also knew that it was this cold that drew me , this steady destruction of body and imagination , this utter alienness , as though only that could still excite me , as though anything less alien would only leave me indifferent . |
| 6 | It was this question that decided me . |
| 7 | Yes , and I never heard of this And there 's another lady that brought me a picture with four generations in . |
| 8 | More important to me was the need to obey this instinct that warned me to put some distance between us . ’ |
| 9 | It was this image that accompanied me as I walked down the rue de Fleuve , stopping for a final coup d'oeil at the squat church crouching on its gravel ground . |
| 10 | Not in his normal voice but in a low , throaty baritone that reminded me of Vincent price in The Haunted Palace — my dad 's favourite picture : ‘ Albert Roger Quigley , do you remember me ? ’ |
| 11 | Another thing that surprised me more than anything was , our main supplier of tea , which we get over half our tea from now , is Kenya . |
| 12 | Another thing that surprised me was the manager 's quotes after the defeat at Spurs . |
| 13 | Another thing that struck me was the difference in sexual attitudes between Germany and Britain . |
| 14 | Another thing that interested me was a comment from an ex-Liverpool defender who said , and I quote : ‘ If Alan Shearer had joined Manchester United , it would have been a question of who finished second ! ’ |
| 15 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 16 | Another thing that tickled me about that game was that when vinny had got his second he went over to one of the hoardings that had ‘ Alexei Sayle ’ written on it and kicked the shit out of it for some reason ( same goal I think as above ) |
| 17 | ‘ I decided that I had to put the headmaster in a position to answer and it was this problem that worried me most — more than the outrageous charges against myself and the effect on my family . |
| 18 | Well this feller that rung me was sixty three . |
| 19 | Another flower that astonished me was the bloom of the Golden Abutilon . |
| 20 | Was that that bloke that rang me up ? |
| 21 | It was pure chance that made me notice the writing on the top file , as I pushed open the window . |
| 22 | My definition of harmful treatment would embrace not just treatment that exposed me to risk without any hope of compensating benefit but treatment of unproved efficacy that diverted me from having other treatments that were of proved value . |
| 23 | It was this separate account that confused me . |
| 24 | I detest the armoured , air-conditioned truck that deprived me of my final opportunity to desecrate the holy relic that is ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It was only this monthly accounting that worried me though , for I read every patient 's case notes with avidity . |
| 27 | But there was another deeper factor that endeared me to that little derelict church at Knowlton and slotted it into my spiritual pattern even tighter than my fictional one . |
| 28 | So I guess the bucket of cold water that hit me in the face did n't come as much of a surprise . |
| 29 | " Tell me , my sister , " said Vasilissa , " who was the white knight that passed me in the forest ? " |
| 30 | It was that final little hand that beat me . |