Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he 'd got her to that state , why was she drinking coffee ? |
| 2 | As I put on a plaster in here an hour ago , I wondered if I 'd left it on that shelf above the sink . |
| 3 | She 'd chosen it for that reason — and because it was the colour of wine . |
| 4 | It was the first time Carolyn had heard her without that note of irony in her voice . |
| 5 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 6 | That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown . |
| 7 | He said that ‘ the powers that be ’ had presented him with a summons and the Protestant people had presented him with that book and he thought a parallel could be drawn between the two . |
| 8 | Some of the stories people had told me in that room would make your hair stand on end . |
| 9 | He had told her of that morning 's meeting between the local Tories and Norman Fowler . |
| 10 | Tshisekedi , of the Democratic Union for Social Progress , had been offered the post in July but had refused it at that time [ see pp. 38323-24 ] . |
| 11 | If politicians were normally able to manipulate freeholders and councillors by judicious use of their patronage powers , it is equally clear that they were on occasion themselves manipulated , and for all David Scott 's obvious embarrassment over the Robinson affair , it is evident that he felt unable to show much resentment towards the man who had led him into that predicament . |
| 12 | ‘ He could n't live with the thought that someone had touched me in that way . |
| 13 | An open space between two darkened structures — warehouses , Alexei thought , although he was not sure that their route had taken them across that quarter of the city — appeared out of the mist to their left like the mouth of an open tomb , and Jotan caught Alexei 's arm and indicated it . |
| 14 | I could n't see why , because apparently the kid is looked after by a local nursemaid , who had taken it off that day to visit her own family . |
| 15 | When he stood there was blood all over the white shirt his mother had dressed him in that morning . |
| 16 | Van Gelder also knew it , Denholm had reassured him on that point . |