Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was tired , Carolyn reflected , she 'd missed her sleep that morning because of Mum and Dad . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Another thought struck her — the farmhouse he 'd taken her to see that morning … could he have gone there ? |
| 4 | She had heard him use that tone of voice in the past and knew exactly what it meant . |
| 5 | What on earth had possessed her to volunteer that information ? she wondered numbly . |
| 6 | " 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But the demon which had driven him to drink that night , after months of abstinence , had him in its thrall . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At St Martin 's she had imagined him crossing that limit but his mind refusing to accept the memory of it . |