Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [pron] [vb past] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had become so much a matter of routine that when she answered he came close to putting the phone down before he realized that all he 'd heard was , ‘ Hello . ’ |
| 2 | Even her mother 's " Pull yourself together " remarks began to drag her down as she recognised that that was something she could not do . |
| 3 | She looked young and pretty and relaxed for the first part of the evening until a ghastly sense of anti-climax set in when she realized that many of the young English guests had arrived well watered and rowdy after their coach trip , soon to become hideously drunk on the Ashley 's generous provision of champagne and wine , with a few dainty canapés and other elegant nibbles . |
| 4 | They erm wanted to bring it back cos they thought that this was excellent all this erm purpose erm nowadays |
| 5 | But then he started screwing around and I learned that deaf and dumb people are a bad-tempered lot — well , would n't you be ? — because they get so frustrated and I grew out of that one too . |
| 6 | Not that she minded Jack playing around because she knew that one day he would be hers . |