Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was important to me that I did tell them individually because on their own I felt I could get their attention and having to explain why I felt like this , but more than that , I wanted them to fully understand that all of a sudden I was n't a lesbian whose name was Carla — I was still Carla , except that I just had different feelings . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't remember that I ever saw that page . ’ |
| 3 | I was enjoying Oxford so much that I sometimes forgot that moment in Clare 's bedroom when I made my decision about my future vocation . |
| 4 | Any question of taking her into Penzance had to be abandoned and Harriet went off alone to do the weekly shopping , thankful to be able to leave Edna in charge of Celia and trying not to feel guilty that she actually preferred such expeditions without her daughter 's company . |
| 5 | Dr Neil wanted to tell her to be careful , that she really had little idea of how hard and cruel the world was outside the privileged fastness in which she had previously lived , but he contented himself with saying instead , ‘ Have a good time , McAllister . |
| 6 | He had looked after his younger brothers and sister , he had made sure that she always had enough money , but she had been hearing things of late that had frightened her . |
| 7 | Helen amused herself with the pretence that she always lived this way . |
| 8 | So when mentioned that she still had 4 tickets left , I took the plunge and said yes we would be interested . |
| 9 | She realised that she still had fifteen minutes before the meeting was due to start and on an impulse she rang Paul . |
| 10 | She prayed that Steve would n't see the truth — that she still loved that man , passionately , even though he had deceived her so , and that her heart was breaking inside her . |
| 11 | At 5 p.m. a staff nurse joined Miss T. and her mother and Miss T. told the staff nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she used to be a Jehovah 's Witness and that she still maintained some beliefs . |
| 12 | Naturally she pointed out that she never sought this adulation , quite the opposite , and was frankly horrified by media attention . |
| 13 | It seemed that bingo afternoons left her so exhausted both physically and emotionally that she never had enough energy left to cook an evening meal . |
| 14 | Add to this that she was a vain woman with a streak of snobbery , but one who had made a friend of Alice Fernie ( who herself was unlikely to pick her friends haphazardly ) ; that she was a man-hunting , high-life-loving girl who had shown no desire to keep up her connection with her old stamping-grounds ; and finally , that she apparently received obscene letters with equanimity , merely folding them up and putting them away like love-letters sentimentally preserved ; add all these things together and you had a woman who was as incomprehensible as women traditionally are . |
| 15 | In your application , you say that you only spent nine months with this firm of accountants . |
| 16 | You will probably tell me that you never had 1,000 farthings of your own in the world , but , prisoner , that makes no difference . |
| 17 | The fact that we never sold any records and loads of rotten indie music is our fault has nothing to do with it ! |
| 18 | at the start , but as things went on , and just the fact that we never had any talks between the union and the management . |
| 19 | As we get older and perhaps more worldly , it is sometimes awkward to admit that we ever believed such nonsense , and even more difficult to admit that not everything we imbibed was bad or wrong . |
| 20 | Yeah , but basically from , from that programme all , all the er , you can see all the resources were really being used all week and , but I had a problem when we came to do the bedrooms that er , you can there , we ran out of work for the decorators to do er removing this thing , once you 've removed and then I managed to squeeze in , but where the second decorator 's erm up to room twenty-three but rather than erm have just one gang than , and not , not using as many as the resources as we possibly could I let them gave the second gang a few rooms that they could actually squeeze in without interrupting I 've let them do up to room twenty-three and then and then basically the carpenting and they have to come in after everybody else has done what they Monday morning basically we just decided that we really needed more resources the earlier sequence of events to , to get so we were getting to so whether we 've been given |
| 21 | If there is to be any criticism of our play , it is in relation to our tactical awareness , to the fact that we sometimes made wrong choices which more experienced people would not have made ’ . |
| 22 | He performed his tasks at WGIC apparently too well , so that we subsequently had great difficulty in getting him back ! |
| 23 | They were all later released after police dropped charges that they illegally imported anabolic steroids into the country . |
| 24 | They were all later released after police dropped charges that they illegally imported anabolic steroids into the country . |
| 25 | Evidence from the wear patterns of teeth shows that they also shared similar diets of soft fruit and young leaves , and it seems likely that the various species operated within similar ecological constraints , although there is evidence of some ecological diversification in contemporaneous hominoids both in diet , for example the more folivorous Rangwapithecus , and in locomotion , for example the long-limbed Dendropithecus . |
| 26 | While admitting that some of this funding could have displaced other funding sources — for example , technicians in short supply would likely have found alternative work — the authors of the report , Robin Brighton and Virginia Aschas , say that they also found clear evidence of economic gain . |
| 27 | My mother is a very nurturing woman , says Kate Burton , their elder daughter , I know that they just suited each other perfectly at that time . |
| 28 | Romanian nationalists , in particular the right-wing Romanian Hearth Movement ( Vatra Romaneasca — UVR ) formed in Tirgu Mures in December 1989 , had opposed such demands , arguing that they ultimately represented Hungarian moves for the re-annexing of Transylvania to Hungary . |
| 29 | I ca n't say whether this is true or not but I have been told , it was spoke about when I was a kid , that they never saw each other except if they were both of the same religion . |
| 30 | Furthermore , the idea the Egyptians had of an eternal and immutable world meant that they never imagined any evolution of social conditions . |