Example sentences of "that i [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scene was so exciting that I failed to sympathise with my grey-faced guest who returned with tales of third world conditions in the gents . |
| 2 | The toy that I remember lasting for quite a long time was a beautifully made wooden engine with its tender and two trucks . |
| 3 | Due to the publication schedule of ‘ Contact ’ I am actually writing this before the AGM , so I ca n't say anything more about it except that I intend to resign at it , due to the fact that I expect to be leaving the London area , so this will be the last time you will hear about London Branch from me . |
| 4 | ‘ It means , simply , that I intend to look for another job . ’ |
| 5 | Moreover , now that I come to think of it , it is perhaps not so surprising that it should also have made a deep impression on Miss Kenton given certain aspects of her relationship with my father during her early days at Darlington Hall . |
| 6 | In fact , now that I come to think of it , I have a feeling it may have been Lord Darlington himself who made that particular remark to me that time he called me into his study some two months after that exchange with Miss Kenton outside the billiard room . |
| 7 | His brother , on the other hand — this did seem a little odd , now that I come to think of it — had apparently learnt his German locally ; from his voice I should have said he was Austrian . |
| 8 | I should 've arranged it , now that I come to think of it . |
| 9 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |
| 10 | One that I saw looked like harp in a chamber of pure light ; and at that moment I could understand the frenzy and madness of the bees that visit these studios of paradise , full of sweetness , and can not cease until they die . |
| 11 | The very substantial meat pie , with vegetables ( followed by sponge pudding and custard ) that I saw served on Weald wing drew generally favourable comment . |
| 12 | You 'll notice that I 've said to you we 're going to run the . |
| 13 | It 's simply the way that I 've adopted since the plans I laid were destroyed . |
| 14 | Which is funny , because all the Manson girls that I 've seen on film and stuff , when they talk about Charlie 's music they always say , he was great , he was as good as Tom Jones ! |
| 15 | One of the most positive aspects of Switchboard that I 've seen over the past seven years , apart from the callers , has been the way that many of its members have continuously struggled to put their politics and convictions about gay and other rights into practice ( though some of them might not care to put it that way ) and the strength that working on it has given some people to do so elsewhere . |
| 16 | er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room . |
| 17 | ‘ All this , with the bonus of an organic approach , makes it one of the most original books on gardening that I 've seen in a long time , ’ says our kitchen garden correspondent , Adam Pasco . |
| 18 | I switched increasingly to erm political history , then I moved from economic and political history to social history , to some extent linking the two , and increasingly over the last ten years , partly through the work that I 've done on the history of broadcasting , and on twentieth century history , I think I would say that I would now be a cultural historian . |
| 19 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 20 | The danger is when they 're the ones that if they 're the ones that stop other people sorting out their own feelings and emotions erm and I think in the work that I 've done in schools and in other situations following disasters one of the biggest problems has been that those expressing denial or saying that we should be able to cope with this , children are resilient , they do n't have these problems , erm they 've often stopped people getting the help that they need ; often stopped other teachers getting the help that they need . |
| 21 | Sir , i it was a terrible brief point about clad in jodhpurs , riding boots and hacking jacket but all the point that I was going to make that I 've heard about riding roughshod over Europe but Mr Deputy Speaker this is ridiculous , I the er the honourable |
| 22 | ‘ Well , let's say that I 've heard of married blokes who always had to go to the office on Saturdays , and it usually was n't office work they were doing . |
| 23 | ‘ None that I 've heard of . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm sure that I 've heard of instances where , er , the results have been falsified , |
| 25 | ‘ Ca n't say that I 've heard of it . ’ |
| 26 | A thing that I 've heard from a few directions recently is erm the thought of work shadowing . |
| 27 | I know that I 've written to British gas . |
| 28 | I feel so much better now that I 've written to you , Joan . |
| 29 | the the reasoning being that I 've gone into the aspects of erm income support and that and basically i it 's about seventy pound a week to live on . |
| 30 | He said : ‘ Do you really think that I 've waited for days and days for you to come back here , just to play bloody party games ? |