Example sentences of "[noun sg] that i [vb past] to " in BNC.

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1 ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’
2 ‘ I do n't recall giving any indication that I wanted to . ’
3 Well , well actually , there 's one thing I 've missed out which I said I 'd come back to , and that was the front line review that I referred to .
4 May I draw my right hon. Friend 's attention to the delegation that I led to the Lord Chancellor to consider the problem of bail bandits and light sentencing by Crown courts , and to the concern in my constituency that the Hampshire police authority is short changing the Isle of Wight in terms of the number of constables on the beat ?
5 Do you con will you continue that story that I listened to a week before cos I was n't here last week
6 The bad news is the second difference from ordinary hydrogen that I alluded to , namely that whereas hydrogen is stable , muonic hydrogen is not .
7 ‘ Yes , that money that I took to the taxi rank this morning .
8 The bloke that I went to out with .
9 That old boy that I spoke to , when his he was with his daughter , I said you give me my bloody keys and you money !
10 ‘ And ‘ t was not for the hand of a child that I wrote to your father a year later . ’
11 question that I meant to , meant to ask , which I do n't know whether there are women there , cos mainly the scriptures mentioned about , it 's the man that 's got the lead is n't it ?
12 I regarded it as a very happy accident that I went to U.C.L. to study English , not knowing at the time that I was going to a Department and to a College distinguished for English language studies .
13 'After that I went to sleep . ’
14 the main point that I made to him was that after such a superb beginning where , where they actually state how much rubbish we produce , there 's absolutely no mention even though there 's space at the bottom there 's no mention of recycling at all .
15 I reiterate the point that I made to the hon. Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow ( Dr. Godman ) .
16 The point that I made to the Committee is that if we wish to reduce the hours of the House or change the sitting times — that is still an open question — it is important that we consider how the time of the House is used at present and to make reductions pro rata .
17 Going to another church ( of the Presbyterian Church of England ) my love of God came to be the central factor in my life , and aged almost sixteen I told my headmistress with quiet confidence that I wished to be ordained .
18 Right erm these notes are sort of based on a lecture that I went to when I was in sixth form erm and the theme for it is , Men And Women , Do We Speak The Same Language ?
19 They are leading us in the direction of a central truth about life on Earth , the truth that I alluded to in my opening paragraph about willow seeds .
20 It was a measure of my despair that I dared to be so disdainful .
21 ‘ It was a character that I felt to be a very basic part of me and when I read it I had that immediate connection with him .
22 On the last occasion that I spoke to Lady More , our President , she gave me permission to reprint this extract from the book .
23 If he had done a little more research and had seen the evidence that I gave to the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee in 1987 , he would have seen then — when we had a fiscal surplus of many billions — that I indicated that it would be right , in a downturn , to borrow money in a recession .
24 I was so anxious not to be late for my appointment that I got to Passy two hours early .
25 Thus it was with a certain amount of relief that I acceded to our editor 's request to look at FloorPlan Plus , ( FP from hereon ) which promises to make this kind of thing much easier to sort out .
26 I was experiencing what he meant ; a new self-acceptance , a sense that I had to be this mind and this body , its vices and its virtues , and that I had no other chance or choice .
27 I began to despair in the local press I noticed an advert for an evening class , cookery for men being the young one in the family I plucked up courage and enrolled but it was great , with great apprehension that I went to the first class .
28 From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way .
29 ‘ Killer blah , ’ he said in a strange tone of voice that I took to be a warning so I went back under the chair .
30 But certainly that man that I went to that time he was very very nice and
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