Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | You see , I 'd mentioned the fact that I 'd seen this chap several mornings hanging about in the Cove , so I decided not to take Miss Celia down there for a bit , even though we were having a real Indian summer that year . |
2 | I then was sent a letter telling me that I 'd passed this exam , I then had what 's known as a medical to check that I was okay , there was no , I had no faults or injuries or health problems . |
3 | I felt that I had seen this movie before . |
4 | My conviction on this count was based on the fact that I had researched this area very well and knew that there was nothing on record . |
5 | I 've got to say that I did enjoy this outing ; although the day began with a freezing start it warmed up later and I had a pleasant time working amongst the iron and other junk that abounds on the riverside . |
6 | But she made up her mind , did n't she , that she had to publish this book under a man 's name ? |
7 | He knew that she had been the owner of a house in which murder had been effected ; he knew that she had inherited this house from her uncle , Ted Mosse , an old man who was himself worth investigating . |
8 | Louisa saw that she had misjudged this woman . |
9 | She was n't a bad wife or anything like that , it was just that she 'd met this man at work , where she worked , they both worked at a dry cleaning place . |
10 | You were a great friend of Rock Hudson and Montgomery Clift before that , was it because of them that you wanted to fight this bigotry ? |
11 | I , I would totally support the move that you 're suggesting Mr Chairman , if we are asked to provide another one percent or whatever can be done , erm , I would suggest that the obvious way to get that money would be to offer them the ten thousand that we agreed to spend this morning . |
12 | If we , if we put the profit carried forward er that we 'd earned this year on erm the Upminster Signal thing , |
13 | Which meant that we had to cart this coal from the wharf , take it to the client and put it in his coal house , you see ? |
14 | ‘ I did n't pick Davis , we chose each other and decided a long time ago that we wanted to play this tournament together . |
15 | No , not precisely I , I was a bit too young then , I , I remember all the songs about her Amy wonderful Amy and all those and oh and when she married Jim I was very much in but I could n't actually say I remembered her crashing at Walsall The erm you could , yeah , when I came home from work one Monday afternoon my nan said this eighty eight had gone over very low , and we , we heard that they 'd dropped this landmine this same aircraft had dropped this landmine that had gone under the gas holder at the gas works , in Road and the , they had some rescue workers from the A R P to get it out they never even bothered calling for the Royal Engineers , but the situation was that landmines used to come down on parachutes , and they used to slide into places which were inaccessible but anyway , they relied on the local Walsall A R P to get them out . |
16 | But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations . |
17 | But the advisers subsequently admitted that they had based this estimate solely on figures supplied by British Telecom . |
18 | All three have now given 50 pints of blood each and all three were surprised that they had reached this figure at almost the same time . |
19 | The methods that he chose to investigate this phenomenon were mainly social-psychological , enquiring into the motivations and psychological reactions of individual peasants rather than into the concrete structures and conditions of their lives . |
20 | Cos Michael started it , he said we 're never said anything when we set off in the car , and then he said that he 'd had this fax from me and er Andrew said , well it was n't actually from , er , from me to the , it was fetched up to me and I sent it in the office . |
21 | And at the same time the racing of her blood was only partly fear , and she could see that he knew it , that he had discovered this power and tuned it to performance pitch , that the insults were a kind of invitation , the display of force a plea turned upside down , and she also wanted , because she longed to please , to take off her clothes then and there and let him down from his prideful pose , and soothe him with her obedience to his rage . |
22 | She sensed his fear and , perceiving that he had placed this construction upon their encounter , pressed herself closer to the soft protuberance of his cock , touching his balls with her cheeks , one side and then the other , wheedling the while . |
23 | He let them pass , acknowledged them barely , made the faint pretence that he had chosen this path by chance for a late afternoon walk , even gazed up at Skiddaw , and their gurgled laughter mixed in with his own longing for the gurgling of their necks to gape blood . |
24 | It is highly significant that he had used this expression in a letter written from the conclave to a friend , Giuseppe Piazza , the Bishop of Bergamo : ‘ My soul finds comfort in the thought that a new Pentecost can blow through the Church , renewing its head , leading to a new ordering of the ecclesiastical body and bringing fresh vigour in the journey towards truth , goodness and peace ’ ( Capovilla , 1978b , p. 47 ) . |
25 | But she was not to know that he had had this desire , and went into the house with head bent , feeling that she had been a failure . |
26 | He realized that we felt disgusted at what had been achieved in the commandos and that he had had this brainwave of small parties behind the lines . ’ |
27 | Its actions belied Bush 's declaration on Nov. 15 that he preferred to hold this course than to do something that did not work . |
28 | Buthelezi announced that he intended to submit this constitution to a popular referendum within the region and declared that if approved " the new constitution will stand in force , regardless of the direction taken by the constitutional process of South Africa " . |
29 | In a Portuguese Radio broadcast on July 21 Dhlakama said that he wanted to tackle this question in his talks with Chissano , as well as the suspension of any legislation hindering democracy . |
30 | ‘ He said that he wanted to sell this house , but he would buy a smaller one for mother and me . |