Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They tried to force me to sign that document … ’ |
| 2 | She was tired , Carolyn reflected , she 'd missed her sleep that morning because of Mum and Dad . |
| 3 | She said she 'd got him to agree that day and it was no use arguing because it was her price for keeping her promise to be silent about her work on the other paintings . ’ |
| 4 | Another thought struck her — the farmhouse he 'd taken her to see that morning … could he have gone there ? |
| 5 | Although Peter returned to help you finish that tour , the early '70s must have been fraught with looking for replacements , before you crystallised the line-up with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks … |
| 6 | She had heard him use that tone of voice in the past and knew exactly what it meant . |
| 7 | What on earth had possessed her to volunteer that information ? she wondered numbly . |
| 8 | " Funny , being a bird-watcher , " a boy called Cosgrave had once said and Stephen had made him take that back , twisting his arm until he agreed to . |
| 9 | He had had nothing to eat that day at all and had been up quite a lot of the night and now felt a bit dozy , but it did n't mean that he was ill . |
| 10 | But the demon which had driven him to drink that night , after months of abstinence , had him in its thrall . |
| 11 | ‘ She would often come and have an afternoon cup of tea with me and then pick my brain as to what BA had asked me to do that morning . |
| 12 | As to the teaching profession , he said that he could have wished me to have obtained a less demanding post , if I wanted to write , because his experience at Highgate School had led him to believe that teaching , if conscientiously undertaken , was one of the most exhausting of occupations ; and , though I do not regret the experience , I was to discover that regarding its rigours he was right . |
| 13 | At St Martin 's she had imagined him crossing that limit but his mind refusing to accept the memory of it . |
| 14 | Speaking to one of the workers in one of the children 's homes , said do you think that child prostitution in the children 's homes is something new because it 's on the front of the T and A ? |
| 15 | Was it Monday , no it was yesterday , I was in the loo and I could hear this paper being ripped and I thought oh they 've got one of my club catalogues , I did n't think any more of it and then I could hear Joseph going weee , I thought what the devil 's he got , so went out , Joseph has got the flying circus bus that was meant for Charlotte and him and , Brenda and Charlotte was sharing the , the , garage thing that I 've brought so I thought well now it 's out , well they 're not going to keep all that till I said to him whatever is Father Christmas going to say , I said he 's supposed to be taking these away to bring I said er , what 's Father Christmas gon na say ? , no Ben forget , so I thought while they 're out I could see Joseph 's playing a lot , way with this bus thing , he was having a whale of a time , he thought that was great , so I said to Charlotte I said do you like that bus ? |
| 16 | She had to admit it looked that way . |