Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was none of the humour you usually saw in it , and there was a fixed look about the eyes that I found almost frightening . |
| 2 | ‘ It was just that you seemed so interested in my being one of the survivors that I got quite the wrong initial impression . ’ |
| 3 | One Sunday , I went to one of the best planned and happiest birthday parties that I have ever been invited to . |
| 4 | In that case the solutions that I have so far given to the first equation would no longer be acceptable , but one could take x=1 , y=2 , and z=1 . |
| 5 | Yet some of the people concerned would be people I was at school with ; and in any case it would cal 1 upon questions and allegiances that I had continuously pushed into the rear recesses of my mind . |
| 6 | Karajan 's response to Honegger 's Symphonie liturgique and its near contemporary , Strauss 's Metamorphosen , of which he made the first recording in 1947 , provides specifically musical evidence of Karajan 's priorities and allegiances that I have yet to see considered by those who have become so concerned to analyse and recycle often erroneous information about his alleged political sympathies before and during the Second World War . |
| 7 | In the very short space of time that we have available this afternoon there are three subjects that I need simply to bring to the attention of Synod . |
| 8 | The nose and beard also seemed to imply , to produce , to secrete constantly a certain kind of mind which had nothing to do with the intelligence diffused throughout the books , books that I knew so intimately , and which were permeated by a gentle and God-like wisdom . ’ |
| 9 | It 's given me the chance to look further into two books that I 've really enjoyed reading than I ever usually would . |
| 10 | The Secretary of State made one of the worst speeches that I have ever heard from a Minister in the House . |
| 11 | That you do n't like these designs that I 've just shown you ? ’ |
| 12 | The candlelight on the peeling walls made scary shapes that I 'd never noticed before . |
| 13 | It is for these reasons that I felt then , as I do now , that in pursuing an industrial career I was performing a social service , of no less significance than my service in the armed forces . |
| 14 | None of that , for reasons that I have already explained , is put in jeopardy by the trust proposal . |
| 15 | The church as I have already mentioned , is built ‘ on three tiers ’ and appears to be very grand , even although Saint Francis was a person who lived simply with few superfluous belongings , for the reasons that I mentioned earlier . |
| 16 | And in , certainly in the two cases that I 've just mentioned , those were the key worries that they had ; but I would hazard a guess and say those are the exceptions to the rule . |
| 17 | It 's presenting to my superiors that I find really scary . |
| 18 | I prevailed with the gaoler ( the sheriff denying me ) to take some of the seamen that I thought most dangerous [ i.e. the likeliest to try to escape ] a week ago , and , notwithstanding the strength of the place , from a turret … four men slipped away by a cord in a minute … |
| 19 | Spending time there and in Biella , I have a good balance of values that I like personally . ’ |
| 20 | The stars of the show here just have to be the aged scratchplate , covers and knobs that I mentioned earlier . |
| 21 | Despite their manifest differences , all five views that I have just sketched out are united in that none of them hangs or falls on the notion of critical abilities . |
| 22 | The caddis lives inside its house , and the parasites that I have so far discussed have lived inside their hosts . |
| 23 | A pleasant change from the heat of Mespot , but with a deal of other diversions that I found easy enough to take . |
| 24 | Quite unfairly , it was the few who did cause a hiccup in the smooth turnover of the lettings that I remember best . |
| 25 | It is one of my proudest boasts that I have never thought about insurance and I am convinced that , even under torture , I could resist the temptation . |
| 26 | And again there will be the same erm circumstances that I have just been describing for other people applying here . |
| 27 | Although there is an assumption that most of those people are little old ladies who live in the circumstances that I described earlier , I suspect that we do not really know who the beneficiaries will be , but if the Government do not know , they should tell us . |
| 28 | I took to listening to Wagner , but reports in magazine articles that I drank heavily are an exaggeration . |
| 29 | I also had to wear new pink sandals that I had only received the morning of the wedding . |
| 30 | In one week I had been transformed into the two personae that I had always sworn to avoid : the preacher and the missionary . |