Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that I 'd seen them together like that I started to have fantasies of being invited to watch them together , or to take photographs of them . |
| 2 | Because he 'd pulled him back like that , stopped him from doing what he wanted , he was going to have one of his screaming fits . |
| 3 | Stuart had noticed him often after that , sometimes on the corner by the students ' union , other times on Princes Street , silhouetted against the store windows , sidling up to the late-night shoppers on Thursdays . |
| 4 | She should have been more concerned , more anxious to know what he had to confide , since he had invited her here for that very purpose . |
| 5 | He understood the depth of the compliment : the landlord had compared him favourably with that greatest of heroes , a local boy made good ( so long , of course , as he makes good far away ) . |
| 6 | You 're being silly , she told herself ; a man as attractive as Luke Denner would be bound to have many women in his life , any number of girlfriends ; had n't she schooled herself into thinking this at least a hundred times — ever since that very first meeting , ever since he had dragged her unceremoniously into that small , chaste bedroom , ever since he had made love to her ? |
| 7 | If you had not , and the prince had consigned me again to that man 's house , I should hardly have known what to do , or where to turn . |
| 8 | They had hosed him down after that , then poured urine over him . |
| 9 | It had been the girl in the travel agency who had put her right about that ! |
| 10 | Before Aunt Tossie had sent him away to that Special School , Nicandra had been such a good little Queen to him . |