Example sentences of "that i [vb past] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 2 | I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence , and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from , but inherent in , my own immaterial nature . |
| 3 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 4 | Now that my sons are becoming more independent , I have time for myself and confidence in middle age that I lacked as a youngster . |
| 5 | And once I remember — I very faintly remember — that I flew as the buzzards and the ravens fly and all the great sky was mine . |
| 6 | The ‘ Snowball turnips that I used as a catch crop wherever a patch fell vacant were deliciously tender and sweet ; so too were the young ‘ Early Nantes ’ carrots I cropped among the ‘ Topper ’ shallots . |
| 7 | It was in September 1953 that I arrived as a new boy at Woolverstone Hall School and it may be that Ray was also new to the school . |
| 8 | ‘ Leo , ’ came a voice that I recognized as my mum 's . |
| 9 | Before the hon. Gentleman gets up , let me say that I worked as a probation officer in the King 's Cross area , which was one of the most difficult areas for homelessness in the 1970s . |