Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] that [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realized that one day before the war . |
| 2 | I tried that 26-letter word on my ‘ spellchecker ’ : it paused for a moment , then put up its hands with ‘ sorry , no suggestions ’ . |
| 3 | If I used that particular eyepiece on my 76-mm refractor , I would still obtain a magnification of around × 600 — but the image would be so faint that it would be completely useless . |
| 4 | And I believed that this world of darkness and changing images went on without a break , as unceasingly as the other less real one outside , wherever outside was , and by some unlikely philanthropic gesture of the city corporation was allowed to co-exist and be connected by the little dark doors with dark portholes . |
| 5 | What is more , the journey via New York and Los Angeles included a first leg of the marathon journey on a British Airways Concorde , where I enjoyed that extraordinary experience of arriving in Manhattan — thanks to the five hours time difference — more than an hour before the 10.30 am departure time from Heathrow . |
| 6 | Back at the Neuadd Arms I discovered that pre-race training for most of the other entrants consisted of downing the maximum number of pints of ale in the least possible time . |
| 7 | ’ He gave a sob , ‘ and she went rattling down the stairs to her room the way she always did and then I heard that awful sort of slither and Bunty 's scream … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm telling you , ’ she said , ‘ when I heard that big clock in the hall striking the five , you could 've knocked me down with a feather ! |
| 9 | And Jaz actually said oh I heard that some bloke from your school is gay is n't he ? |
| 10 | Yes , that 's when I felt that huge surge of relief and happiness . |
| 11 | When I held that tiny baby in my arms it was so hard to believe that something so beautiful could come from such a sordid act . |
| 12 | He has pointed to the difference between the treatment of offenders in Scotland and England , and said that the Scots do not imprison defaulters following their acceptance of the Scottish Law Commission 's report , which recommended that civil imprisonment for the non-payment of rates and taxes should be abolished . |
| 13 | He also rejected the radical free market view , which proposed that each part of the electricity industry ( generation , transmission and distribution ) should be broken up into a large number of competing companies . |
| 14 | In the final weeks of the Reagan administration , State Department plans for a ‘ surgical strike ’ against General Noriega were scotched by the Pentagon , which estimated that any use of US troops would cause several hundred military and civilian deaths . |
| 15 | Just a month later however , this great work was threatened by an advertisement in the Mercury which stated that another plan of Manchester & Salford was to be on the market and carried out by J. Oldham . |
| 16 | Our results are in accordance with other studies in rodents , which showed that dietary supplementation with calcium phosphate inhibits lytic activity of faecal water and colonic proliferation . |
| 17 | Similarly both the Rathenau Advisory Group in the Netherlands and the Industrial Institute of Economic and Social Research in Stockholm , carried out simulations which indicated that slow introduction of microelectronic technology would have a worse effect on employment than keeping up with other countries . |
| 18 | Muscles stretching from the brain-case controlled a sideways-moving hinge , which meant that each side of the upper jaw could rotate outwards as the jaws closed . |
| 19 | In eighteen oh six , erm a law was passed which said that all property of a woman went over to the man on their marriage , including herself , so the woman was no longer an individual , she was just the property of the man and she could be disciplined and punished if the man felt like it . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's good , ’ said Masklin , who realized that some sort of remark was expected . |
| 21 | Because ZFM was set up in 1967 at the insistence of the military , who argued that economic development in the Amazon basin was necessary for national security , its managing authority , SUFRAMA ( Superintendencia da Zona Franca de Manaus ) is responsible to Defence rather than Trade . |
| 22 | A notable convert to their point of view was Harrison Salisbury of the New York Times who argued that American withdrawal from the South would not produce a takeover by the North . |
| 23 | ‘ You remember … ’ she would say coquettishly , ‘ when you made that awful fuss about the trousers … ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Maggie was about to refuse but she caught that sceptical look in the count 's eye and changed her mind . |
| 26 | She was absolutely terrified of creating her own image in case she found that some expanse of water found its way into the picture . |
| 27 | For the French , who declared that old-style exploitation of colonies was a thing of the past , all that they said was necessary were economic and social programmes to dissipate ‘ the racial hatred that was drummed up by immature political leaders ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ That first night of Luxembourg , when she turned that marvellous duet into a slapstick comedy routine and I complained to the Direktor about it — you knew I complained about what she had done to the duet , did n't you , Ingrid ? ’ |
| 29 | BANG ! 27.3 million Britons tuned in to see who fired that long-overdue bullet at Southfork 's J R Ewing in November . |
| 30 | She hated that demonic air of self-assurance that went with him . |