Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never expected it to be easy , but I do sometimes wish for those moments that I experienced in the distant past , when the umpire used to say , ‘ game , set and match ’ , and you shook hands before entering the comparative safety of the changing room . |
| 2 | It was through them that I heard about the forthcoming penny farthing races at Ferrymead Historic Park , on Waitangi Day ( the NZ national day , Feb. 6th ) . |
| 3 | It was one of the few references to the former prime minister 's gender that I heard during the whole week of leadership crise . |
| 4 | They were trying to insinuate that I belonged with the psychiatric patients . |
| 5 | I opened two bottles that I retrieved from the sticky mess on the cabin floor . |
| 6 | After you calmly tell me that I walked through a fucking wall ! ’ |
| 7 | I repeat a proposition that I made to a previous Leader of the House . |
| 8 | I reiterate the point that I made to the hon. Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow ( Dr. Godman ) . |
| 9 | The comparison that I made in The Independent newspaper was based on what the Secretary of State 's own review had recommended as the number required to run the system . |
| 10 | He laughed back when I told him that I came from a poor barrio in Britain and that we were no longer referred to as people either . |
| 11 | Dr Russell insisted that I went with the convalescent men and we were lucky to pick up one of the last trains to go northwards . |
| 12 | You may tell me that I went to the wrong place to begin with — and I can now agree . |
| 13 | If the leaders of Anti-Racist Alliance want to build up an effective anti-racist movement , they should desist from the kind of stupid sectarianism that I witnessed at the recent March for Justice in the London borough of Newham . |
| 14 | Despite the fact that I succumbed to a mild form of food-poisoning through eating at the cheapest restaurants — a meal could he obtained for ten ( old ) francs or less , but less meant the more chance of prostration — I have never known Paris so surpassingly beautiful as that year . |
| 15 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 16 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 17 | It was with much regret that I learned of the sad passing of Jack Golder ( Shergold guitars ) on 9th April ‘ 92 , via the obituary published in your June issue . |
| 18 | I was so overjoyed with the diagnosis that I celebrated with a huge meal , a bottle of champagne and a large cigar . |
| 19 | over subscribed courses as well , I mean when I went on the language and , and the national curriculum and that other thing that I did on the national curriculum , masses of people there . |
| 20 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 21 | I was , however , systematic about the 30 or so in-depth interviews that I conducted on a random sample basis by allocating each member of the movement in Britain a number which had an equal chance of being selected from a book of numbers especially prepared for such purposes . |
| 22 | It was not that I objected to the public baths . |
| 23 | It was in September 1953 that I arrived as a new boy at Woolverstone Hall School and it may be that Ray was also new to the school . |
| 24 | If I may hark back to the answer that I gave to the right hon. Member for Morley and Leeds , South ( Mr. Rees ) , one of the areas on which there has been a significant concentration by the Government and the security forces in recent years is the financial resources available to terrorists — I hasten to say on both sides of the community . |
| 25 | I repeat the undertaking that I gave to the hon. and learned Member for Fife , North-East ( Mr. Campbell ) a moment ago . |
| 26 | I refer to the answer that I gave to the hon. Member for Hemsworth ( Mr. Enright ) some moments ago . |
| 27 | That is the undertaking that I gave to the Select Committee . |
| 28 | Going to Libya in 1988 , Jousiffe — her name is English , possibly of French origin and not Middle Eastern in spite of its sound — found that she suffered from the negative influence she had absorbed and thought : ‘ I wo n't enjoy this . |
| 29 | The chief US negotiator , Carla Hills ( the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations ) , said on April 6 that she hoped in the near future ( i ) for an amendment of Japan 's Large Retail Store Act , which currently made it difficult start up new retail outlets ; and ( ii ) a restructuring of Japan 's Patent Office , which was accused of taking an average 37 months to approve new products for the Japanese market , and thus of effectively hampering the import of new products . |
| 30 | Or was it simply that she looked like a large , mobile bag of laundry ? |