Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] that afternoon " in BNC.
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1 | He was still wearing the same clothes he 'd worn that afternoon , and Juliet wondered if he had been out that evening , and who with . |
2 | I arranged to visit that afternoon and to go through it with Mr and Mrs Singh . |
3 | From a small vase , she took two of the daisies they had picked that afternoon and wound them strategically in Portia 's hair . |
4 | I recalled an old man I had seen that afternoon , standing by a well . |
5 | Long after Mary Duncan was asleep James continued to sit beside her , his thoughts disturbed by the day 's events , and little Anna Beckett , whom he had seen that afternoon , kept tugging at his conscience . |
6 | But she was thinking more of Ianthe Broome and the man she and Penelope had seen that afternoon , and wondering what they would be like . |
7 | The words rang again in Sally-Anne 's head as they had done that afternoon in her aunt 's pretty drawing-room once Mrs Greville had gone . |
8 | He had brought a zinc bath with him which he hoped to fill that afternoon . |
9 | David Swan , who had arrived that afternoon to join his wife Carole at the conference , spotted Amaranth Wilikins almost as soon as he entered the Grand Hotel . |
10 | Gay had spent that afternoon writing hard ; the story was going well , she said , and she was in high spirits . |
11 | He said the brothers who had hurt Edouard had turned to culture , they had gone that afternoon to the Chagall museum . ’ |
12 | They were singing ‘ Forty Years On ’ as a duet , which surprised her so much that she stepped backwards and trod on the toe of the cross young man with whom she had collided that afternoon . |
13 | He went out into the darkness to think over what had happened that afternoon . |
14 | It took me nearly twenty minutes to talk her out of the loo , finally having to promise that Nevil was not a friend , that he would n't call the police and that there would be no need for Mr and Mrs Binkworthy to know anything untoward had happened that afternoon . |
15 | At this stage the director revealed news of a letter he had submitted that afternoon to his colleague , verifying that he was serious about resigning . |
16 | Between them they could think of no way to get the food Mrs MacDonagh had cooked that afternoon , and the plates she had left in the stove , from the kitchen to the table at dinner time without something getting cold . |
17 | Gimbert and Moscato failed to impress that afternoon . |
18 | It continued to engage her thoughts as she sat knitting that afternoon . |