Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhat taken aback by this development I tried to explain why I accepted without reservation the account in Genesis to be correct , adding of course that I also accepted that there are genuine brothers and sisters in Christ who are evolutionists . |
| 2 | Delving deep into its archives it has come up with some winners , not least a luscious 1947 performance of Bax 's The Garden of Fand that I once possessed and enjoyed in its original , 78 rpm form . |
| 3 | On the walls were small pieces of wood that I later learned were the sculptures of one of Signe 's ex-boyfriends . |
| 4 | It was a piece of work that I very much enjoyed organising and following through to completion . |
| 5 | I had a sudden pang of conscience that I really ought to tell them that the funny-looking herb on the left of their kitchen garden was not really an obscure form of ivy and on no account must they attempt to smoke its leaves . |
| 6 | They were the same sort of things that I never got invited to again . |
| 7 | They make me want a lot of things that I never had . |
| 8 | More often than not , it was accompanied by the sort of halo that I once put around others ' heads , and now often wear myself . |
| 9 | So I have discovered reserves of strength that I never knew I had . ’ |
| 10 | well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything . |
| 11 | ‘ I would dearly love to know why you keep sticking me with motives that I just do n't have ! |
| 12 | He also has the rather unenviable job of being the go-between between the leadership and us , which means he has to tell us any things which ‘ are not done ’ ( for example that I ill-advisedly introduced Confucius into one of my examples ) , and also has to clear any demands we make with the leadership . |
| 13 | At that time erm , I was a commercial traveller and Harlow was part of my district and they reluctantly accepted the fact that because I was a commercial traveller working in Harlow that I actually did work in Harlow which was stretching a point , but I really think that the Development Corporation 's officials were getting a little tired of my being able to talk their own language and to write letters in the same vein as they could write , they were n't used to this , and , at any rate , as I said earlier we got here . |
| 14 | It is with this conception of the Newbolt Committee in mind that I now wish to examine their Report as a statement of cultural policy in the guise of a proposal for meeting educational requirements by merely technical means . |
| 15 | A rifleman hit two men crouching near the Colonel , who later wrote that ‘ this was the first time in warfare that I truly felt fear . |
| 16 | His own description of what followed is worth repeating : ‘ I found this location in Glasgow that I really liked and took about 15 shots of it . |
| 17 | I mentioned to Ewen that I still had some ( I told him 10 , but it appears to be only 8 ) copies left of GGE , and yesterday I approached Bargain Books on Princes Street , where I see they 're selling it for £6 , in the hope that I might add my copies to their stock and get a cheque for you . |
| 18 | I also place it on record that I very much welcomed the Minister 's attitude in Committee . |
| 19 | One of the things we said the worst training session can be is going over stuff that I already have done , already known , what training have I received that they received in the past ? |
| 20 | Congress , it 's against this background , against a lifetime of commitment to equality that I firmly oppose the change . |
| 21 | This profile is for samples that I just north of South Georgia in the south Atlantic in nineteen eighty six . |
| 22 | I like some of the heavier stuff from America : I heard a couple of things by Superchunk that I really liked , and obviously the Nirvana album was a ground-breaking record . |