Example sentences of "[noun prp] [that] i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It was on one of these weekend trips to Regina that I wrote my first outside interview for the paper — an interview with John Philip Sousa .
2 David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going .
3 It was precisely because the measures in the social chapter would have damaged first employment prospects and secondly our competitiveness against Japan and the United States that I found them unacceptable .
4 As I was applying to art school I needed a reference so I told Vivienne that I thought I 'd ask Malcolm , since he was my employer .
5 ‘ Will you write Charles Napier that I made his man Moncrieff a lieutenant , ’ Keith wrote , ‘ and I am now obliged to invalid him to prevent his being dismissed by a court martial .
6 It was in May that I met her , on a return visit to Cley .
7 It was not until the middle of May that I discovered what it was that had so stimulated my friend .
8 It was also in May that I started my new programme of intensive stretching exercises and aerobics .
9 And by that I was looking at er things like discussing with Alan that I felt we were un under , had , had less management time than we should .
10 It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa .
11 ‘ 'T WAS on the Isle of Capreee that I found her … ’
12 It was only when I was in Holland that I had my first serious doubts that I might actually fail and have to marry Janice — in which case there was no way I would wish to claim custody . ’
13 ‘ I was n't ; it was only when I was talking about it to Gina that I thought I ought to come here and tell you . ’
14 It was only after moving to Llanberis that I did my next winter route in Wales — a quick solo of Sinister Gully .
15 It was down at Riverside that I had what you might call my first ‘ exotic ’ sexual experience .
16 ‘ T'was on the isle of Capri that I met her … ’
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