Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have made all the amendments that I wished to make to the procedures and I have done it in pencil with a copy to circulate . |
| 2 | and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job . |
| 3 | Fortunately those of my friends who knew me before were only amused by this foolish description and there was no general resentment of my peerage , which could properly have been attributed to many services that I had given to the government — of both colours . |
| 4 | I wished that I had written to the two women about Donald 's death , and that I was not now obliged to tell them of it . |
| 5 | Chairman , there 's just one little point that I did speak to the Town Clerk and I think the Council should be aware of it . |
| 6 | While in hospital I had mentioned to my surgeon that I intended to go to the Bristol Cancer Help Centre , although at that time I had not actually made up my mind . |
| 7 | I experienced the agonisingly slow passage of time and decided that I needed to go to the toilet . |
| 8 | I told my parents that I wanted to go to the lavatory and have a wash . |
| 9 | Knowing that I wanted to speak to the bedu woman to learn more of her life , the Sheikha signalled me to stay while they moved out of the dining room , pulling their veils over their masks . |
| 10 | The undertaking that I gave refers to the Bill before us . |
| 11 | The women 's stories and miseries haunted her , filled her dreams ; the desperation of their situations made Carolyn herself feel trapped and frantic , so that she dreaded going to the Refuge and was tongue-tied when her help was most needed . |
| 12 | Many of the protesters , together with much of the black press , attempted to publicise the jogger 's name and to vilify her character , claiming variously that she had never been attacked , that she had been raped by her white boyfriend , or that she had gone to the park in search of sexual adventure . |
| 13 | Would n't Veronica think it suspicious that she had gone to the lengths of calling two days running ? |
| 14 | DONATION — Pauline was pleased to report that she had written to the National Westminster Bank Sponsorship and Community Affairs Dept. and received a donation of £500 to the Society . |
| 15 | At first interview she said the strain of looking after her mother-in-law was considerable , that it was putting a strain on her marriage in that she and her husband were always quarrelling these days , and that she had got to the point when ‘ I feel I ca n't go on any longer ’ . |
| 16 | Mrs Laughton said that one of the reasons for Mrs Kemp 's suspension was that she had objected to the Social Work Department ignoring the decisions of the Children 's panel . |
| 17 | But had it not been to rid herself of her aura of wealth and privilege which had created her feeling that she was the darling of the gods — although the same gods knew how brutally they had treated her — that she had come to the East End to work , and to live as though she really needed to , and to survive on the pittance which she had earned , without bolting back again to luxury and comfort ? |
| 18 | He had been there since lunchtime , and it had been while she 'd watched him that she had come to the decision that she must go . |
| 19 | Over the past few days , however , Harry noticed that she seemed reconciled to the fact that they were fast becoming an inseparable threesome . |
| 20 | She made it clear ( I do n't remember how ) that she wanted to go to the back of the house , to the kitchen . |
| 21 | We found that we went to go to the telephone system that there were a whole load of numbers not being used . |
| 22 | Then I realized that we kept returning to the same place and stopping for a few minutes , before moving off again around a similar route . |
| 23 | We discussed the present situation and the representations that we had made to the People 's Republic of China , and I reaffirmed the fact that I would continue to make such representations . |
| 24 | Going by past experience , there was a high probability that something had happened to the others , and her first instinct was to go and search for them . |
| 25 | ‘ Ven ! ’ she whispered , and was barely aware that they had moved to the darkened area of her bedroom . |
| 26 | During the study days , the patients were fully ambulatory and could follow their preferred daily routine except that they had to return to the laboratory for their meals . |
| 27 | Girls who are very aware of parental disapproval may not feel able to take this step and also not want to run the risk of parents somehow finding out that they had gone to the doctor or the clinic . |
| 28 | In truth , there were those in the American camp who admitted that they had to bow to the Europeans where the Solheim Cup uniforms were concerned . |
| 29 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 30 | Brian felt that they had come to the end of that day 's talk . |