Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the voice was larded with the tones owed to ‘ land in the family ’ , the man himself was decent , polite , unpretentious , and unpatronising throughout the half hour or so that I spent photographing him . |
| 2 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 3 | I thought once or twice that I saw a glint of sardonic amusement in Conchis 's eyes , but I could n't be sure . |
| 4 | For David there is not really a lot more to tell except perhaps that I got some new teeth and as a result a few more pounds have been gained . |
| 5 | ‘ It has helped me see more than ever that I compete for my country and always will . ’ |
| 6 | He seemed so much more sensible than before that I agreed to have lunch with him . |
| 7 | And so that I hope that I hope you find that interesting . |
| 8 | The general point here and I want to make is that er , these are n't officers ' promises these are the members ' promises and er , erm , we 've got to be careful that er when they 're all drawn together that we are n't making a hostage fortune , erm and so that I think it is very important members take aboard er what is suggested and test them themselves to see that they are realistic , I would also say that er as these promises are being considered by the various committees and I note a considerable variation in standards which will need to be addressed when the promises er , have come back to the Policy Committee , these are particularly in reference to the time required to respond to er , erm complaints etc , it 's no use having the Highways Committee wanting two weeks and incidentally on promise number two erm I think that er any up , somebody else 's point er straight forward wants to be deleted , erm the highways require two weeks to respond er , erm hearts and libraries want a , you know half a day , er and we 've got to get these er erm more or less synchronized I think , and whilst I 'm thinking Chairman on the last page er of the er favourite for , for first for agent authorities , but it does n't give any indication about the contact point and as most of our population live in the agent authorities that the er it needs to be expanded to give the contacts er points for the members of the public . |
| 9 | and , and Northbrooks ever since it was built right next door to me when I was living there er , many years ago and er get the , the new development done , and so that I do n't think we should hold on . |
| 10 | I 'm not very good at listening to God , but between one and three am God spoke to me so powerfully and painfully that I have never felt so broken before him ( and still do ) . |
| 11 | I wept buckets , but it was n't until later that I realized what had happened . |
| 12 | It was n't until later that I realised what it was . |
| 13 | It was n't until later that I saw what ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ was capable of , in Block 10 . |
| 14 | I thought she might have been the subject of a newspaper article or something like that , but it was n't until later that I found out just how famous she was . |
| 15 | But there was still a problem about the label Education , and also that I did have such a very large chunk of air-time , 15 per cent of the Channel . |
| 16 | I actually took all those letters home and I went and I listed all the things that were listed er mentioned in all the letters and also that I tried to consider giving you know my impression of the meeting and tried putting exactly what what they 're saying . |
| 17 | But it wo n't be that much because I 've been out of things for the last year and before that I had shut my eyes anyway . |
| 18 | ‘ I was always the top broker at any firm I worked for on Wall Street and before that I sold memberships at the Museum of Modern Art . |
| 19 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |
| 20 | Er previous to that I held the licence for The Mason 's Arms at for three years previous to that and before that I 've been connected with the catering and licence trade from being fifteen . |
| 21 | You could n't join the library until you were seven , and before that I read my Hans Christian Anderson back to front when I 'd read it twenty times from start to finish . |
| 22 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 23 | This is my garden — and now that I 've dug the tunnel , I want you to think of it as your garden , too ! ’ |
| 24 | I grew away from the Church being a clergyman s son , of course , and now that I 've come back to it I find it the same only more so — fewer people and even more cups of tea . ’ |
| 25 | And now that I come to think back , ’ said Cadfael , shaking his head between doubt and conviction , ‘ that wind that blew in was gone before ever the page settled . |
| 26 | And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before . |
| 27 | I declare here and now that I intend to follow that same path . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And now that I looked again at Mr White Face , I saw that beneath his paint his face had some of the configurations of a rat , with sharp little jaws and pointed nose , not at all like the inhabitants of Sarawak , a blunt-faced company , with which I was acquainted . |
| 30 | And now that I have become a partner in business I can work from very early and right through in order to be free at night to train . |