Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was patently obvious that she was n't going to get an opportunity to speak to Luke ; it seemed possible that he had manipulated that . |
| 2 | But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations . |
| 3 | Their education , he said , was irrelevant to their duties , their poverty such that they had to spend most of their time keeping body and soul together . |
| 4 | The connections were , of course , the Red Army : after 18 months of disastrous and brutal reforms , carried out in an overly reckless spirit because the PDPA leaders believed the Russians would always bale them out , Moscow decided in late 1979 that it had had enough . |
| 5 | She became convinced that he had found another woman and concentrated on trying to find out who she was . |
| 6 | I was rather flabbergasted that anyone had paid any attention to what I had said . |
| 7 | I leafed through the newspapers , glad that I had done those interviews . |
| 8 | It was hard that she had to choose such an arrogant , disdainful man to fall in love with . |
| 9 | It was improbable that he had accomplished all this before 3.30 p.m. but , between then and the 4 p.m. discovery of the body , Hunter-Blair had talked to him . |
| 10 | Julia was not at all sure that she had followed all the details of the story , and did not believe everything she had been told , but she did accept that Raffaella was genuinely afraid . |
| 11 | It was an American teaching method that , Frank insisted , allowed students to progress through the stages of education confident that they had grasped all the basics of one stage before going on to the next . |
| 12 | It had grown so wild and unruly that it threatened to smother all the flowers . |
| 13 | Although Hardy came to declare that no book of his had ever contained less of himself , it is difficult not to see in Jude a symbolic statement of all that he had found most disappointing in his life and in the human condition in general . |
| 14 | I , I would totally support the move that you 're suggesting Mr Chairman , if we are asked to provide another one percent or whatever can be done , erm , I would suggest that the obvious way to get that money would be to offer them the ten thousand that we agreed to spend this morning . |
| 15 | The government announced on June 4 that it had freed all remaining former South Vietnamese officials held in re-education camps , thereby fulfilling a key condition for the normalization of relations with the USA . |
| 16 | How could she tell this impossible Dane that for some wild , unaccountable moment the previous evening , when his mouth had joined with hers , she 'd imagined they shared a mutual attraction so powerful that it had overridden any man-made measurement of time or propriety ? |
| 17 | It was plain that she had said all she was going to say . |
| 18 | I heard later that the Queen was so angry that she refused to enter any of the damaged rooms ever again , and promised to take her revenge on me . |
| 19 | I just hoped Karen would n't go any further , that she would n't get so drunk that she tried to mount some leering admirer who happened to step on her toe by mistake . |
| 20 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 21 | On reflection , I thought it less and less probable that he had done any such thing : he would have to have bypassed the dragon-lady , Leslie Brown , for a start . |
| 22 | JANE O'NEILL WITNESSED A SERIOUS ACCIDENT , AND WAS SO SHOCKED THAT SHE HAD TO TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OFF WORK . |
| 23 | President Alfredo Cristiani Burkard announced on Oct. 28 that he had suspended all moves to reform , purge and reduce the size of the army , as set out in the UN peace accord of January 1992 [ see p. 38716 ] , until the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) guerrillas had completely disarmed and demobilized their forces . |
| 24 | Its actions belied Bush 's declaration on Nov. 15 that he preferred to hold this course than to do something that did not work . |
| 25 | There was one field in particular that I had made some good finds on and I had searched this piece of land time and time again . |
| 26 | It had become so difficult that we needed to help each other make it ; everyone who made it to Australia would win a trophy . |
| 27 | And he was obviously really furious that I 'd said that . |
| 28 | The waiter left and the man at the table felt satisfied that he had negotiated this basic exchange successfully . |
| 29 | All three have now given 50 pints of blood each and all three were surprised that they had reached this figure at almost the same time . |
| 30 | The director of The Long Roads , Tristram Powell , agrees that less equalled more in that performance : ‘ I was aware that she had played all these glamorous parts , and I had to get her to trust me and do much less than she was used to . |