Example sentences of "that i had [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt that I had progressed from just wanting to ‘ be gay ’ to being ‘ Black and gay ’ . |
| 2 | He had written a book called Stilfragen on the history of the acanthus motif , and that I had studied as a student . |
| 3 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 4 | To me she represented all that I had imagined of the bygone days of sail . |
| 5 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 6 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 7 | I gave up the stiff white collars that I had worn at the advertising agency and was careful to wear plain ties ; but my suits were Burton 's at £10 a time . |
| 8 | Although it would be mad to claim that I felt happy , my first feeling was one of cheer that I had escaped from prison . |
| 9 | And against all sense and credibility I worked out that I had landed in the midst of what might be called a farmstead , Fraxilly-style . |
| 10 | Stopping to ask a local woman where I might find Dr Mareda , I discovered that I was speaking to his companion , Vera , and that I had stopped outside their front door . |
| 11 | One thing that I had grasped about the whole business was that we were going to live in a country area where there would be lots of wildlife , and I had heard of King Arthur , of course . |
| 12 | It was dark , I could n't make out their features , but I was terrified that I had jumped from the pot into the flames . |
| 13 | Of course he was n't always there because frequently there were notes from his mother to say that he had earache or something , but later on I realized , of course , that those notes had been faked , the same as the notes that I had sent to school from my mother several generations before that . |
| 14 | Mrs Sandison senior was sitting in the stern , complaining about the lack of rising fish , and the useless flies that I had mounted on her cast , when the trout grabbed . |
| 15 | Given that they had the ‘ weather works ’ that day in the shape of sleet , hail , wind and rain , whilst simultaneously a view of quite a lot of snow on Vesuvius , I was glad that I had stayed at home with a good book . |
| 16 | And it was perfect for me because a lot of the vibrato that I had developed over the years suddenly sounded more like me , because the vibrato bar was n't there taking up the slack and giving way every time I applied vibrato . |
| 17 | Petra surpassed anything that I had visualised in my kitchen fantasy-life . |
| 18 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 19 | It was not with my reason that I had fallen in love with him and come to live with him , but it was with my reason that I was going to leave him . |
| 20 | ‘ The first time I met her , while I was working for him , I think she knew that I had fallen in love with him and yet she was kinder to me than anyone I 've ever known . |
| 21 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 22 | He added , alarmingly , of the November shipment : ‘ I know that that is in my memory that I had heard of France being connected with such a thing . ’ |
| 23 | Largely forgotten until recently , Watson 's fine sun-dappled landscapes had elegant figure studies have begun to reappear in London galleries , including Richard Green , and Blamey was surprised that I had heard of him . |
| 24 | I just rea I mean I knew that I had heard of it then I realized . |
| 25 | He picked up one of those brown shiny golf-balls that I had seen at Pike 's and rolled it across the desk to me . |
| 26 | It rekindles memories of those old-fashioned Hollywood romances of the Thirties and Forties that I had seen as a child . |
| 27 | It seemed a very personal and special wave — the kind that I had seen in my mind 's eye in a night of tangled dreaming . |
| 28 | Admission into the complex followed a similar pattern to that I had seen in the English prisons : searches , registration , allocation , different coloured uniforms for the various categories of prisoner , etc . |
| 29 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |
| 30 | Following the work that I had done at the MU on the Circuit Board Fault Diagnostic Aid in connection with my MSc project , 2 members of the staff had gained experience of expert systems : the Chief Technician and a civilian who had assisted me during the project . |