Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 2 | It was at this point that I left to seek medical help for fear I would split my sides . |
| 3 | ‘ It was for you that I had to leave that hotel suite and not return until daylight . ’ |
| 4 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
| 5 | I felt that I had to make some sort of social effort so I swung my legs off the bed and sat sheepishly on the edge . |
| 6 | It was ironic in retrospect that I had to travel half way round the globe to get to know working class men from my own back yard . |
| 7 | My contract said very clearly that I had to have complete control of the making of the film , so I asked Darryl Zanuck if he would please replace me and I would give him the necessary time to find someone else . |
| 8 | Erm , this is something that I started to use last year . |
| 9 | When I was chided by someone for seeming oblivious of ‘ the magnitude of the accounting operation ’ I said that it was because of my consciousness of the magnitude of all other operations that I dared to make these demands of Mr Whalley , who perfectly understands in any case . |
| 10 | It was then that I decided to tell each woman in my own time , taking each one in turn — I could n't tell them all at once . |
| 11 | But it was n't until I read the piece in the paper last week that I decided to have another try . ’ |
| 12 | I decided that I needed to get some support , to find someone who could , let us say , take charge of me and give me advice . |
| 13 | The next facet of my approach was that I wanted to see more flexibility in the hands of local family health services authorities over the application of funds and the use of the substantial sums of money that are available to them for the development of primary health care . |
| 14 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 15 | More significant , it was not until after it ended that she began to possess permanent representatives of her own in the major capitals of Europe . |
| 16 | She was violently attacked in the classroom by an 11 -year-old pupil and suffered injuries so severe that she had to take early retirement . |
| 17 | JANE O'NEILL WITNESSED A SERIOUS ACCIDENT , AND WAS SO SHOCKED THAT SHE HAD TO TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OFF WORK . |
| 18 | But she made up her mind , did n't she , that she had to publish this book under a man 's name ? |
| 19 | Alisa Morrant realised that she had to target new mothers — it would be too late by the time the children attended the dentist for fillings . |
| 20 | She told Annie that she had to do some shopping , then doubled back and waited . |
| 21 | Shelley did n't mind , but it would have been polite to let her know beforehand that she had to run two clinics instead of one . |
| 22 | She coldly snubbed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for years , and it was revealed recently that she failed to visit two cousins who had been committed to mental institutions . |
| 23 | ‘ If the creditor takes adequate steps to inform her and reasonably supposes that she has an adequate comprehension of the obligations she is undertaking and an understanding of the effect of the transaction , the fact that she failed to grasp some material part of the document , or , indeed , the significance of what she was doing , can not , I think , in itself give her an equity to set aside , notwithstanding that at an earlier stage the creditor relied upon her husband to obtain her consent to enter into the obligation of surety . |
| 24 | Yeah so anyway and I said that 's not very nice so we were talking this morning about her and I had to tell Ann did n't I that she drove to work three days on a trot in her bleeding lights two . |
| 25 | On her way home she remembers that she forgot to buy any pet food so she returns to the shop to buy some . |
| 26 | Initially , many believed that their retention would only be temporary ; they failed to understand , however , that Elizabeth herself saw the 1559 settlement as final , and that she intended to resist all pressure from her councillors , divines , and MPs to purify or reform these ceremonials . |
| 27 | Writer Jane Roberts , who channelled Seth , says that she tended to ignore any desires which might distract her from her creative work , so she used to suppress the impulse to take physical exercise . |
| 28 | So delighted was she by this new demonstration of friendship , that she decided to have another go at winning over Rose , who was even more sullen than usual at bedtime and blew out the candle before Evelyn was stretched out upon the floor . |
| 29 | Lady Wilcox , the NCC chairman , told Valerie Grove of the Sunday Times in September 1990 that she wanted to see responsible lending and responsible borrowing . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm just going to go over the fence and see what Camille 's doing , ’ said Scarlet , loath to say what she really meant — that she wanted to make sure Camille was all right — because that would imply that she might not be . |