Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] that morning " in BNC.
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| 1 | They dropped in the earthenware bowl , and were absorbed , so that when , later , Ruth helped to eat that morning 's baking , she imagined she could taste the bitterness of the tears . |
| 2 | Deliberately she thought of the conversation she 'd overheard that morning . |
| 3 | The same uneasy feeling he 'd experienced that morning returned , and he realized now why it came : of all the people of Dynmouth this boy in his adolescence was the single exception . |
| 4 | He 'd woken that morning , lying beside Vanessa with a hard-on she 'd wanted him to pleasure her with , and had stupidly refused her , knowing he had a liaison with Martine that afternoon . |
| 5 | ‘ It was hell when I discovered you 'd left that morning without saying anything to me , not even an angry goodbye ! |
| 6 | Unable to face his wife in the bungalow in High Park Avenue and fearful of meeting her in one of the shops if he hung about the town , he set off for another walk along the beach , striking out this time in the opposite direction from the one he 'd taken that morning . |
| 7 | The women who sat beside a single basket of herbs , or wild mushrooms they had gathered that morning in the dew , high in the hills , were tanned so dark they might have washed in walnut juice . |
| 8 | ’ You know things may change a little today , ’ the uncomfortable but professional PR had explained that morning . |
| 9 | he had a way with him and he was , got on very well with Mr and er he told us afterwards that erm the whole trouble was that the children 's baths had leaked that morning |
| 10 | What added considerably to this worried mother 's concern was a letter she had received that morning . |
| 11 | It was the eleventh or perhaps only the tenth time I had fallen that morning . |
| 12 | I asked him how the scene from the mystery had fared that morning , as Nell had described what had happened the day before . |
| 13 | Across the field the bloom of the cherry tree , under which they had sat that morning , hung sodden and spoiled . |
| 14 | In her hand she held the letter from England that had come that morning and Wilson knew what it contained : news of Miss Henrietta , of Mrs Surtees Cook , who was mortally ill with cancer of the womb . |
| 15 | Then he felt , vibrating along the ground , the steady tread of a man going away beyond the crest over which they had come that morning . |
| 16 | In the centre the earth had been laid bare and was scored with long scratches and furrows , and there was a narrow , regular hole , about the same size as one of the carrots they had carried that morning . |
| 17 | Christina took a picnic basket Celia had prepared that morning , containing bread rolls , fresh fruit , napkins , tablecloth , plastic cups and cutlery . |
| 18 | Robyn got out of the car and looked through railings across the car park to a brick office block and a tall windowless building behind it , a prospect almost as depressing as the prison she had seen that morning . |
| 19 | He leafed through the stack of notes that was the result of their questioning everyone in the area about what they had seen that morning . |
| 20 | Holmes went on to tell them about what we had seen that morning . |
| 21 | The work they had done that morning was trifling and all they had to show for it was rough shelter and little comfort . |
| 22 | He would stand in the corridor which ran along past the junior classrooms , as he had done that morning , and listen to the lessons being given . |
| 23 | The grey clouds that had prevailed that morning began to break up , promising a fine afternoon . |
| 24 | Big-hearted Dudley Thomas immediately left his courtroom and returned minutes later clutching the wrapped sandwiches his wife had made that morning . |
| 25 | He could not recapture the certainty he had felt that morning . |
| 26 | He did n't fancy another trip to the chemist 's he had visited that morning . |
| 27 | We shared our resources for lunch — the girls ' picnic sandwiches and a cold pie and some fruit I had bought that morning — and ate it comfortably in the cottage kitchen , with its grandstand view of the bay . |
| 28 | It showed a meeting Jan Mach had had that morning . |
| 29 | He was so close that Polly could feel his body warmth and smell the soap he had used that morning . |
| 30 | On the desk in front of her was the envelope which had arrived that morning . |