Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After you calmly tell me that I walked through a fucking wall ! ’ |
| 2 | I repeat a proposition that I made to a previous Leader of the House . |
| 3 | He laughed back when I told him that I came from a poor barrio in Britain and that we were no longer referred to as people either . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that I succumbed to a mild form of food-poisoning through eating at the cheapest restaurants — a meal could he obtained for ten ( old ) francs or less , but less meant the more chance of prostration — I have never known Paris so surpassingly beautiful as that year . |
| 5 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 6 | I was so overjoyed with the diagnosis that I celebrated with a huge meal , a bottle of champagne and a large cigar . |
| 7 | I was , however , systematic about the 30 or so in-depth interviews that I conducted on a random sample basis by allocating each member of the movement in Britain a number which had an equal chance of being selected from a book of numbers especially prepared for such purposes . |
| 8 | It was in September 1953 that I arrived as a new boy at Woolverstone Hall School and it may be that Ray was also new to the school . |
| 9 | Or was it simply that she looked like a large , mobile bag of laundry ? |
| 10 | During the holiday her arm felt so lifeless that she went to a local Swiss hospital for an X-ray . |
| 11 | Over a period of about eighteen months , her father hit her mother to such an extent that she went into a Battered Wives Home five times , taking her two daughters with her each time . |
| 12 | She told the poor people who had taken her in that the girl was illegitimate , and that she came from a bad family with an evil reputation . |
| 13 | I am afraid that her reply was not as sympathetic as the contribution that she made as a Back Bencher when talking about Florence Smith . |
| 14 | She winced , the force of his brutal remark piercing through her like a sharp knife , the suggestion of other women hurting so badly that she realised with a sick sensation that she was jealous . |
| 15 | Theda came to herself to find that she lay in a large four-poster bed , with the curtains drawn back , and the weak autumn sun coming in at the windows . |
| 16 | Looking simplistically at her behaviour at home it might have been assumed that she conformed to a typical stereotype of an AD sufferer . |
| 17 | Her heart was thumping so loudly that she wondered for a fleeting second whether Scott could hear it . |
| 18 | It was not every night , she reflected , that she dined with a secret agent . |
| 19 | But her cause was badly damaged in 1985 , the day before she was to sit next to the Prince of Wales at a dinner in Florida , when it was revealed that she posed as a nude model in magazines and appeared in pornographic films in the late 1960s . |
| 20 | ‘ He said that you looked like a little ghost , and tried not to mention my name . |
| 21 | So getting back you know the fact that you said about a limited income so what does that in terms of foods you buy , what kind of things do you find do you buy actually s |
| 22 | Get everything practically that you needed from a black book . |
| 23 | I see from my files that we agreed to a slight change to the Agreement for the above tape , and a revised page 2 of the document was sent to you on 20 April . |
| 24 | That was the doctoring that we had for a broken collar bone you see ? |
| 25 | There followed protracted negotiations ; and it was not until weeks later that we settled on a permanent arrangement that satisfied everyone . |
| 26 | But I 'm anticipating a shortfall of somewhere between £600,000 to £800,000 , which equates to the £1m that we wanted as a long-term 15-year loan . |
| 27 | They could never forget , he told his audience in his 70th anniversary speech later in the year , that they lived in a multinational state . |
| 28 | ' However eager sceptical Victorians might be to replace the superstitious world of their forefathers with a structure that seemed to them more solid and more rational , the alternative , namely that they lived in a meaningless world of chance , was repellent to many of them . |
| 29 | Or they could tell themselves that they belonged to a European Community from which they were in fact , until very recently , separated by a long stretch of communist-occupied territory ; and that too was not exactly convincing . |
| 30 | By this , structuralists ( Miliband and Poulantzas alike ) mean that short-term concessions might be given to , or seized by , interests antithetical to capitalism , but once these interests pushed their demands beyond what was safe for the continuity of the capitalist mode of production and accumulation , then economic crisis would arise to constrain choice and force policy-makers to recognise that they operated within a capitalist world economic system . |