Example sentences of "[noun pl] that i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
2 | There are two other books that I co-authored which cover this aspect . |
3 | As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness . |
4 | I would say to other pregnant teenagers that I think it 's great if they are happy about it . |
5 | ‘ I was so wrapped up in my own performances that I needed someone with experience to help . |
6 | and er I was looking at in , there 's a lot of slang words that I think what |
7 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
8 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
9 | The working party on Equal Opportunities that I said I would convene ? |
10 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
11 | At times I become so obsessive about the dangers that I find myself making lists of what could go wrong . |
12 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
13 | ‘ In those Go-away times that I knew you had I should have guessed you needed help . ’ |
14 | I started off the way I write every album — wrote a couple of songs , got a feel for the music and called up the musicians that I thought I could do the songs with . |
15 | A storm arrives from the west , the snow falling so thickly in a few minutes that I fear I will lose my way . |
16 | One set of typefaces that I like there are on the slightly goofy side are the Goudys erm and it took me a long time of , your know , hearing purists try to explain to me why before I understood the distinction . |
17 | She looked so pornographic in her gimmicks that I wanted her to take them off again , or better , much better , push bits of them aside . |
18 | It follows that I am not using language properly if I say that you ought to do something , unless I hold by some universal principle from which this prescription follows and all other implications of which I would be prepared to endorse , most notably those which would prescribe under certain circumstances that I do something . |
19 | Well , I have been following this mailing list and have yet to post a message , but am sad to see that it is under these circumstances that I post my first … |
20 | However , during our visit to India he had been constantly with us , and in Jaipur I had experienced a gratifying sense of shared adventure ; but it was perhaps in the camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly . |
21 | He feasted for months , for years , on a small pair of my slippers that I gave him ; I expect he has burnt them by now . |
22 | I liked York very much , because it was set round a lake and it was the first one I went to , but I must say of the other modern universities that I know I would say that Sussex was erm was the other best one that I 've been to and the one that I felt most comfortable and happy . |
23 | I liked York very much , because it was set round a lake and erm it was the first one I went to , but I must say that of the other modern universities that I know I would say that Sussex was erm was the other best one that I 've been to and the one that I 've felt most erm comfortable and happy in . |
24 | ‘ He never once put his hand into his box all the years that I served him , ’ meaning he never gave me a gift of money , a bonus for service above and beyond the call of time . |
25 | No I , well the , the colours that I like you know the cerise and the |
26 | Because any one of these two or three things that I show you is enough if it 's a surprise to them they will blow you out . |
27 | I 'm going to have some headed notepaper as soon as I can get the laser printer printing out things that I tell it to rather than printing out Courier Ten . |
28 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
29 | It has made me question every aspect of my teaching , including things that I thought I was doing well ! |
30 | I wonder if it 's one of those things that I mean she 's reading the story aloud , I wonder if you were reading that story as as well |