Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mates that I played football with were skinheads into Blue Beat while the girls were into that pop group The Love Affair . |
| 2 | When I say that I saw Karen at the funeral , I mean that quite literally . |
| 3 | I 'd said to Mr Palmer in 1960 after St Andrews that I 'd caddie for him anywhere . |
| 4 | Did you know , for instance , that I led Birdman on Kilnsey Crag , or that I spent several days top-roping and practising Zero on Idwal 's Suicide Wall ? |
| 5 | The idea was to try to bring back the spirit of entrepreneurship that I thought people in these neighbourhoods would be inclined towards if the right environment were established . ’ |
| 6 | So funnily enough , the girl that I made friends with when I was a tracer , Penny , erm she came to see me in land army uniform you see , and I said , ’ Right , if I ca n't go in the forces , I 'll join the land army ’ , so I said ’ alright ’ . |
| 7 | It was at this point that I came face to face with the realisation that human beings could be studied like other animals , and I went on , past chimpanzees , to investigate the behaviour of this strange creature that I christened The Naked Ape . |
| 8 | ‘ I was always the top broker at any firm I worked for on Wall Street and before that I sold memberships at the Museum of Modern Art . |
| 9 | He must have assumed that I meant trouble from the twins , for he suddenly became surprisingly loquacious . |
| 10 | All that has happened is that I met Hugo at a party and came to understand that , as well as having friend and spouse , a woman needs the excitement of a lover from time to time : a re-basing , as it were , in the physical : the reincarnation of the carnal self in a body which gets , over the years , far too controlled by spirit and mind . |
| 11 | I have already stated that I discovered death at the age of six , and also that I never considered suicide as a possible course of action . |
| 12 | As I checked in at Baghdad airport , I found that I had 100kg of excess baggage . |
| 13 | yeah it might be , I do n't know , I think usually Roy does that but I think Dave 's doing it this year or something erm er that tends to be , that tended to be something that I had difficulty with as a student because again you could n't just sort of find one book that , that covered the lecture course |
| 14 | Her description of my flat is one that I had difficulty in recognising : ‘ We were greeted at the door by Arnold 's housekeeper , Miss Roberts . |
| 15 | To such a degree that I had hold of P C . |
| 16 | I must admit that I had doubts about Swansea 's pack at the beginning of the season . |
| 17 | well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything . |
| 18 | She resented the fact that I had children of my own and that I was n't as desperate to have them as she was . |
| 19 | After supper I was shown to a tiny bedroom overlooking and adjoining the graveyard ; so profound was the silence that I felt part of it . |
| 20 | Have you forgotten that I became President through People Power ? |
| 21 | I mean it 's it 's happened and I was ha I was so interested in the subject that I asked Mr for a copy of the report where it goes back in the history and of course it is the history of trading standards and , and so on . |
| 22 | It was for that very reason that I declined appointment as a judge . |
| 23 | The syndicate that I did business with is being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office.I 'm convinced that myself and thousands like me have actually been swindled . |
| 24 | So after completing my National Service , I did all the things that everybody does when they 're trying to break into show business , urged on by my father 's insistence that I found employment of some sort — ‘ Get a job , any job , just get one ! |
| 25 | I became lively , hard-working , and so well-organised that I found inefficiency in others deplorable . |
| 26 | It was to these crucial years , therefore , that I turned attention in an endeavour to understand not the triumphal march of the party as such , but rather the broader cultural structures that laid the foundations for its success . |
| 27 | I pictured doing an impossible thing — I thought that if I got too close to coming , I could somehow angle my leg and contort it so that I caught hold of my cock in my bent knee and squeezed it like a nut in a nutcracker until it stopped wanting to come . ’ |
| 28 | The Minister will acknowledge that I paid credit to the Government 's work in respect of disability . |
| 29 | The United Arab Emirates that I coached play in the Holtons Sonic Welding Intermediate League ( North ) and are not a national side at all . |
| 30 | ‘ I told him that I wanted £5,000 from him . |