Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , and she did see rather surprised that I 'd finished one wall ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I worked out that I had walked thirty-two miles the previous day and night . |
| 4 | She wanted me to accompany her but I hung back , afraid that she 'd find out that I had taken two lumps of coal , and Dad had gone out , so he was not there to protect me . |
| 5 | After the first week I came to the reluctant conclusion that Charlie Trumper was n't going to be pleased that I had sacrificed ten pounds of our money — six of his and four of mine — just to appease my female vanity . |
| 6 | Or that she had drunk one glass too many ? |
| 7 | By the Monday , an ultrasound scan showed that she had miscarried one baby — but that another was still there . |
| 8 | The old peasant woman whom I visited told me how bad things had been before the Liberation — that she had had 8 children , of whom all but three had died . |
| 9 | The nine-page affidavit , filed by State Attorney David Bludworth in conjunction with the charges , documented the bruises found on the body of the alleged victim , and also stated that she had passed two polygraph tests on her statements to the police . |
| 10 | He discovered soon after his return to the city that she had refused two offers of marriage — one from a wealthy suitor — on the strength of the promise made to him at Bath , and that she continued to love him ‘ with an affection to the ardor of which my Deserts bear no proportion ’ . |
| 11 | Shelley did n't mind , but it would have been polite to let her know beforehand that she had to run two clinics instead of one . |
| 12 | He was unshaven , and his stomach was beginning to protrude over his belt , but there were still traces of the fine , athletic figure and well-cut features that she had married seven years ago . |
| 13 | She coldly snubbed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for years , and it was revealed recently that she failed to visit two cousins who had been committed to mental institutions . |
| 14 | Yeah so anyway and I said that 's not very nice so we were talking this morning about her and I had to tell Ann did n't I that she drove to work three days on a trot in her bleeding lights two . |
| 15 | I was pleased to hear that you managed to obtain ten sets of the papers and confirm that both Neil and Geoffrey Sinclair already have a set . |
| 16 | unless you have a base to work off of started to do , once we started doing the er , the walls take the scaffold down out of the way and to release some area off our stock pile we decided to back build so that by the time that we 'd done six tanks we 'd got half our area taken up by all that material excavated and just flip back to the drawing here what 's going to happen is that stockpile here . |
| 17 | There was a moment of sudden realisation that we 'd spent four months raising this cash and we were not going to let it go that easily . |
| 18 | And er what was I going to tell you , I told you about , I talked about we had nine pawnbroker 's shops , I did n't did I , but that we did have nine pawnbroker shops in Ipswich . |
| 19 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |
| 20 | Winston phoned me back within an hour to say that he had spoken to Harriman , that Harriman had spoken to the State Department , that they had dispatched two telegrams — one to Pretoria and one to Cape Town , the places between which the governmental functions are divided — and that in addition he himself had sent a telegram to the Prime Minister of South Africa , signed by the not unimpressive name of Winston Churchill . |
| 21 | I felt that it was too easy for what were essentially white women 's publishers culling some short stories and poems from Blackwomen and then hailing the fact that they had published x-dozen Blackwomen writers . |
| 22 | When they caught up with me we discovered that they had strayed six miles from their route . |
| 23 | In late May the FBI admitted that it had questioned thirty-one year old Brian M. McDevitt in connection with the theft , in which two robbers cut such masterpieces as Vermeer 's ‘ The concert ’ and Rembrandt 's ‘ The storm on the Sea of Galilee ’ from their frames . |
| 24 | While officially rejecting the deadlines as an ultimatum and conceding only that it would negotiate over the vexed issue of border controls , Slovenia announced on July 5 that it had demobilized 10,000 members of its defence forces . |
| 25 | UNITA on the other hand claimed that it had killed 82 government troops in these attacks and others in Cabinda and Uige provinces . |
| 26 | He pointed out that the army version of the shooting prompted the questions : Why , if the army believed that it had caught three terrorists , did it let all of them escape ? |
| 27 | Hanson revealed that it had sold 100,000 shares in Morgan — but told investors it still owns 4.4million shares in the merchant bank . |
| 28 | On Dec. 12 a Swedish company , Brown Boveri , admitted that it had sold two presses used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons , to Iraq . |
| 29 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 30 | Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ? |