Example sentences of "that i [vb past] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was while filming at this den that I heard of yet another place , only a few miles up the Wye , where mink had been seen killing mallard chicks . |
| 2 | Sir — It was with deep sadness that I heard of the death of Fred Daly , to date the only Irish winner of The Open . |
| 3 | The first time that I heard of Maastricht was on 12 May 1940 , when the RAF was shot out of the sky and knocked on the ground . |
| 4 | This was a very comforting thing , although I must admit that I heard of no cases occurring in the period that I was in Mespot . |
| 5 | Did n't happen any town that I knew of except London and I can understand why they did it in London — very expensive place for a young detective to make a shape — cost too much money keeping in front of your job there . |
| 6 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 7 | One of the most interesting cases that Maureen came across that I knew of was a peregrine falcon . |
| 8 | There had n't been any lapses in my security that I knew of . |
| 9 | It is hard to imagine the effect water can have on the lives of normal everyday people , there were about six or seven houses that I knew of that almost completely wrecked . |
| 10 | Not in the same way that I knew of his brother , who made money in biscuits and owned a gleaming Daimler car which he drove very cautiously over the potholes in the road outside our house . |
| 11 | that , that I knew of , you know ? |
| 12 | Nothing that I thought of seemed adequate , but in the end I decided to keep it simple . |
| 13 | I think it was when I saw the London policeman wagging a finger at a scowling urchin that I thought of Wesley Binks and the time he put the firework through the surgery letter box . |
| 14 | Erm , the only example that I thought of , reading through this was erm , that of intelligence testing , erm , because intelligence testing er was held in high esteem about forty or fifty years ago . |
| 15 | Well when you say cake , do n't get the wrong ideas , erm my idea of a cake , the vision that I had of a , a three tier cake , came to me as I was striding home from a meeting across The Downs and I had this vision of a three tier cake . |
| 16 | It was with much regret that I learned of the sad passing of Jack Golder ( Shergold guitars ) on 9th April ‘ 92 , via the obituary published in your June issue . |
| 17 | It was proof of a homosexual community and it was through porn that I learned of its existence . ' |
| 18 | It was from the late Sir Harry Luke , author of that delightful and civilized book The Tenth Muse ( Putnam , 1954 , and revised edition 1962 ) that I learned of the beauty of mulberry ices . |
| 19 | He also taught us music and it was through him that I learned of its expressive nature . |
| 20 | And on the very morning that I learned of Elise 's death you 'll remember that Rob walked into the office , back from his holiday . |
| 21 | It was to be many years later that I learned of the strictures Tata had accepted once he had proposed marriage to my mother , a Roman Catholic . |
| 22 | Er well I think the experience that I gained of the the kind of erm living situation erm because I you know we underwent the same kind of difficulties . |
| 23 | These differences come about because of changes ( mutations — this is the small random element in the process that I spoke of ) in the genes controlling development . |
| 24 | Is this , then , the rescue that I spoke of ? |