Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 True to Bonnie 's prediction it began snowing that night .
2 The work they had done that morning was trifling and all they had to show for it was rough shelter and little comfort .
3 It 's a pity it had to happen that way .
4 She sat down in front of it and looked at the half-page she had typed that morning .
5 Tommy 'd ask me how much money we 'd done that day .
6 He was the first person I 'd met that day who did n't know what a dolmen was .
7 A few years ago I saw a couple of Eastenders stars come in erm and Ross whatever his name forget his name there were two young girls standing in front of me scraping pennies out of their purse to get in though we loved that character they wanted to come that night we 've got to get girls like that youngsters like that interested to come on other nights and then come again that 's what needs doing . .
8 He was so close that Polly could feel his body warmth and smell the soap he had used that morning .
9 His words went straight to her heart , and she remembered the private wish she 'd made that day , that Nicolo would tell her he loved her .
10 The cold feeling she had experienced that morning crept over her ; she remembered the library book , and , with a feeling of panic , recollected Hank 's trip to New York .
11 But we if we used a tin of bully beef we had to supply that tin of bully beef out of our own seven and six pence .
12 We argued and discussed — and in the morning he had scrapped that idea and had several others to offer in its place .
13 The same uneasy feeling he 'd experienced that morning returned , and he realized now why it came : of all the people of Dynmouth this boy in his adolescence was the single exception .
14 Delaney remembered the feeling he had had that Connors was holding something back .
15 I recalled an old man I had seen that afternoon , standing by a well .
16 How bitterly I thought that night of the happiness I had left that morning !
17 I 'm sure you 'll be surprised to discover that the man you tried to shoot that night at Meltham House was n't Mr Churchill . ’
18 Hugh did n't wake as she lay down on top of the sheet beside him and before dawn she fell into the heaviest sleep she had enjoyed that holiday .
19 What added considerably to this worried mother 's concern was a letter she had received that morning .
20 Back on India-May 's farm he 'd hung that picture in his head .
21 He could not recapture the certainty he had felt that morning .
22 At this stage the director revealed news of a letter he had submitted that afternoon to his colleague , verifying that he was serious about resigning .
23 Deliberately she thought of the conversation she 'd overheard that morning .
24 It was the third trip she had made that year , leaving husband , sons and job to visit her father .
25 ‘ For the past five years we have been working hard to turn the London International Book Fair into a major event in the publishing calendar , rather than just another exhibition , and I think this year we managed to achieve that aim , ’ reflected LIBF director Brian Bradford at the end of the 22nd fair .
26 It was the eleventh or perhaps only the tenth time I had fallen that morning .
27 Simon said , and it was the first time she had heard that name .
28 It was n't the first time she 'd heard that kind of comment .
29 Robyn got out of the car and looked through railings across the car park to a brick office block and a tall windowless building behind it , a prospect almost as depressing as the prison she had seen that morning .
30 If in the 1960s firms had responded to regional policy assistance , for instance , it was necessary to know why at that time they had needed that assistance .
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