Example sentences of "then that i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was then that I saw her wild , inhuman face ! |
| 2 | It was just then that I heard it ; a small knocking sound coming from the direction of the cupboard . |
| 3 | It was then that I knew I could have a fight on my hands : If the manager sided with him and asked me to move a few feet away then I 'd have no choice but to join in the squabble . |
| 4 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 5 | I felt then that I understood her . |
| 6 | It was then that I noticed something suspicious . |
| 7 | It was about then that I noticed I could not touch the bottom and I felt myself going faster downstream than I was going across . |
| 8 | It was then that I made my mind up . |
| 9 | It was then that I made my never-to-be-forgotten answer , ‘ Mum 's lost , down the fair . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It was then that I realised what a lovely person he was , ’ says Avril . |
| 11 | But as I left my car and started to go into the house it was then that I realised I was falling under the spell of this Englishwoman who had been such a delightful and charming companion that day . ’ |
| 12 | It was then that I realised I needed some first aid training . ’ |
| 13 | It was duly arranged that we should meet after work , and it was then that I gave him further details about my ‘ sponsored ’ trip to Paris and about my much more ambitious idea of a trip to Libya . |
| 14 | It seemed to me then that I wanted everything , a whole new world , but could define no part of it . |
| 15 | ‘ I decided there and then that I wanted nothing more to do with him , ’ she says . |
| 16 | I struggled with the whole thing the night before Christmas and the whole of Christmas Day , and finally I realised then that I wanted you just as you were . |
| 17 | I knew then that I loved him and I would do anything for him , no matter what . |
| 18 | I knew then that I loved you , more than anything in the world , more than life itself ! ’ |
| 19 | In return she sent me her third and latest novel , A View of the Harbour : and it was then that I recognized her as the author of At Mrs Lippincote 's . |