Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Megan joined her plea to Ann 's , with such eager sincerity that I laughed and agreed . |
| 2 | Basic Instinct is such preposterous , pernicious trash that I laughed and laughed . |
| 3 | It was in that office on the fourth floor that I heard and felt the city of Dublin roar and shudder with the explosion of three massive bombs which ripped through the heart of the city and its people . |
| 4 | It so happens that I can remember the firsts serious poem that I wrote and published , which was actually when I was in my mid-twenties . |
| 5 | I was filled with such great uneasiness and hatred that I chattered and jibbered and made myself horrible . |
| 6 | Now in the lock museum I 've taken some locks th that I collected and took them over there they used to do speed locks butted locks sidecar locks er then , as the motor trade changed from all wood frames to metal frames , other types of locks , I took there but this is what is amazing me , they , at the lock museum they highlight all the Willinghall locks which are the padlocks , which are locks er wardrobe locks , cabinet locks and all the smaller type of locks but there was the biggest industry , I mean Walsall locks are still in existence now , they made er er locks for , for , for cars , the Bloxwich lock , that was their biggest trade was er , was er the bigger locks . |
| 7 | I am able to say to my right hon. Friend that I raised that matter with President Yeltsin very forcibly indeed . |
| 8 | So marked were my anxieties that I buried that experience for several years . |
| 9 | ‘ Now I 'll go back and tell that silly little receptionist what a silly little toad he is too and if he does n't turn over the keys to the apartment that I booked and paid a deposit on I 'll scream all the way to his boss . ’ |
| 10 | When we were shown into the chargé 's office , I studiously avoided shaking hands or having any eye contact , determined to alert him to the fact that I understood and respected their religious customs , in the hope that it might make a difference . |
| 11 | Yes I did er I sh I wo n't say the exact words but they were words to the effect that er that I was sorry , that I understood and appreciated that er erm his family would have been terrified by the experience . |
| 12 | I was chatting to her one lunch-time and just happened to mention that I kept and bred barn owls . |
| 13 | From then on I decided to leave all that I had and collect nothing but Avant-garde . |
| 14 | Or that I killed and mutilated a half-mad witch ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He knew the potential that I possessed but had refused to acknowledge . |
| 17 | He saw the work that I examined and dealt with , and on the Tuesday , I was saluting him as an inspector . |
| 18 | I said I did n't know , and thought no more of it and it was n't until David returned and was performing at the Arts Lab on the Sunday night that I remembered and said to David , ‘ Oh , by the way , while you were away I had a message — your father is not very well ’ . |
| 19 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |
| 20 | I make sure , then prepare to leave , but I want to make it appear that I entered and left the church like a ghost . |