Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | You see , I 'd mentioned the fact that I 'd seen this chap several mornings hanging about in the Cove , so I decided not to take Miss Celia down there for a bit , even though we were having a real Indian summer that year . |
2 | I mean to tell you that I 'd seen old Ken |
3 | And I 'd know that I 'd incurred that expense . |
4 | I then was sent a letter telling me that I 'd passed this exam , I then had what 's known as a medical to check that I was okay , there was no , I had no faults or injuries or health problems . |
5 | Yeah , and she did see rather surprised that I 'd finished one wall ! |
6 | ‘ Neither am I , querida , ’ he said slowly , ‘ but I wish that I 'd had those skills in Seville because it would have saved a lot of anguish . |
7 | I was er er there was something that I got told many years ago that I |
8 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
9 | Out popped a very strange gentleman from this aircraft that I noticed had American markings , but I still did not know what the aircraft was , I had a vague idea but I was not sure . |
10 | It was at this point that I left to seek medical help for fear I would split my sides . |
11 | ‘ It was for you that I had to leave that hotel suite and not return until daylight . ’ |
12 | My personal and spiritual growth expanded into every area of my life , twenty-four hours a day , seven days a week , as I came to live more consciously in each and every moment — knowing that I had created that moment , and that it was an opportunity to grow . |
13 | Benjamin , however , squeezed me by the wrist and I followed him , taking some consolation in the fact that I had hidden two knives , three spoons and a small silver plate used for sweetmeats inside my jerkin . |
14 | And as it looked like Sasser had told Hurley something about me , Control passed the word that I had handled some contract work for the Defense Department in the past , just minor stuff , but that it was all finished now . |
15 | I went through the drill that I had taught many times to my students , and with a little sideslip brought John 's creation back to earth . |
16 | I felt that I had seen this movie before . |
17 | I leafed through the newspapers , glad that I had done those interviews . |
18 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
19 | If I should cry , trying to express the inexpressible , that I had walked the wind with archangels , she would have been worried and annoyed ; and if I had gone on to say that I had forfeited those heights and lived now in an unremitting shadowless glare of exposure in a runnel of Hell , she would have feared for my mental health . |
20 | I recall that I had written another broadside in reply to an article in The Student Vanguard by Rayner Heppenstall , then a communist , called ‘ T. S. Eliot : sign of the times ’ . |
21 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
22 | As I made the turn and dive I realised that I had lost lateral control and the wing " roll and dive " was increasing alarmingly . |
23 | I worked out that I had walked thirty-two miles the previous day and night . |
24 | Capron had lent me the gun , and suggested the ploy of telling Graham that I had found new evidence that would clear his name of the allegations that he was a Soviet agent . |
25 | All I could remember of my first visit was that I had found several items , including a Tudor buckle . |
26 | Little did the other helpers know that I had had real experience in the world of commerce outside . |
27 | I was just six then , and while Blyth knew that I had had some sort of little accident when I was much younger I certainly seemed to him to be a lot more able-bodied that he was . |
28 | I was not in the least keen , but when it became clear to me that my intervention would be frowned upon only slightly by my television clients , added to the fact that I had established good relations with George Elvin , the ACTT 's general secretary , it seemed to me that there might be some sense in intervening . |
29 | You yourself were good enough to say that I had earned some leave , and I want to take it . " |
30 | My conviction on this count was based on the fact that I had researched this area very well and knew that there was nothing on record . |