Example sentences of "[that] i [vb past] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 2 | Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings . |
| 3 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |
| 4 | The wind was high when I knocked at her door , and I heard a voice from within that I knew not what to make of , though it sounded like the lullaby of a Mother to her Baby . |
| 5 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 6 | Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one . |
| 7 | ‘ It was then that I made up my mind that r would never leave England , ’ declares Lotte Bray ( Lowenstein ) . |
| 8 | The first thing that I noticed when I arrived in the dusty Managua airport , besides the tanks parked in the landing field , was an enormous poster of an unmistakable Daniel Ortega , clad in blue jeans and a cowboy shirt , holding an infant with an earring . |
| 9 | In fact , I 'd become so accustomed to relying on her that I wondered how I would . |
| 10 | that I did n't I brought the rest for Laddy . |
| 11 | It was n't until The Byrds ’ ‘ Untitled ’ double album came out with the liner notes explaining all about the string-bender that I found out what a fool I 'd been … |
| 12 | Oh , well that the money that I found out my pocket and the payment granny gave me . |
| 13 | It was n't until I was much older still that I found out she 'd committed suicide . ’ |
| 14 | So I closed all those books and it was then that I opened up my eyes and looked around me and said , ‘ Now I 'm reading ’ . ’ |
| 15 | Ridging and patching were the first jobs that I tackled once it became apparent that I was neither going to find another job nor be content to remain a labourer . |