Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [that] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither Julia nor I had realised that some delegates would be registering on the Saturday morning for the first time — we had n't covered this . |
| 2 | I had hoped that these weekends of dashing about Britain with estate agents ' details in my lap were a thing of the past . |
| 3 | I caught the sense of victory in seeing the film of Henry V — just as I had supposed that all schools were like that of Goodbye Mr Chips , which I was taken to see in 1939 . |
| 4 | You 'd thought that these houses could of least put a bit of paint on |
| 5 | She had forgotten that many castles in Spain were now official hotels . |
| 6 | We 'd hoped that such irritations were behind us , but then they started taking toothpaste and soap away from us after we 'd been to the bathroom . |
| 7 | We clerks might have found comfort if we had known that many floors above us a few of the bank 's more senior personnel were smuggling personal computers into the building in a bid to free themselves . |
| 8 | Once they had established that all men were equal before God and that all men were theoretically capable of finding out , for themselves , what God demanded of them , they could not confine that principle to the religious sphere , no matter how much they may have wanted to . |
| 9 | In the conclusion to The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism , he had suggested that some forms of " debility , ill health and anaemia may produce an efflux of poetry " . |