Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was general approval that I 'd asked the right question — no one back in the newsroom realised how hard it had been . |
| 2 | I was so afraid tonight when you did n't show up that I 'd made the biggest mistake of my life in letting you go back to England without trying to extract a promise from you . ’ |
| 3 | I explained that I 'd told the sleeping-car attendants that Zak wanted to use him in a scene . |
| 4 | In fact 31 of us turned up to support our annual ‘ big day out ’ and enabled me to realise that I had done the correct thing in cancelling the previously booked 20 seater coach . |
| 5 | However , I was in no doubt that I had done the right thing by leaving him . |
| 6 | I replied that it was not the first time , but that I had borne the previous occasions with courage and would do so now . |
| 7 | I conceded that it might have been wiser , and indeed more seemly , to have consulted her before a decision was reached ; but I did not add that I had advised the Prime Minister to agree to a meeting over her head because I was convinced that she would never accept a challenge to her authority . |
| 8 | As a consequence I really wish that I had spent the extra money and bought a slightly better machine . |
| 9 | It was not that I had abandoned the political book : it was that the mounting gravity of current events had turned my interests from theory to practice . |
| 10 | Immediately I was instructed that I had had the good fortune to be posted to ‘ the division where real polising is done … ’ |
| 11 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 12 | Only when she was out of sight and I had turned a corner did I remember that I had left the little willow leaf from her body lying upstairs on her Sophocles . |
| 13 | Luckily Crispins of Curtain Road in London , my main veneer supplier , still had four leaves from the same bundle that I had purchased the original set from . |
| 14 | Moving outside to fit the new cylinder , I noticed that I had dropped the tiny rubber washer that fitted between the cylinder and stove . |
| 15 | While I was being so damned honest all of a sudden , there was no use pretending any longer that I had chosen the obscure fishing village of Collioure for a holiday for any other reason than because I had heard he usually went there . |
| 16 | The art shop in Covent Garden was the largest she could think of offhand , and the minute she walked in she knew that she had done the right thing . |
| 17 | When Liz 's twin baby girls were born Laura was convinced that she had done the right thing in keeping the full extent of her father 's illness and the subsequent disastrous financial mess from her cousin . |
| 18 | People marvelled at the way Lilly Foley ran such an elegant home when she had five rugby-playing lads to deal with , and marvelled even more that she had kept the handsome John Foley at her side . |
| 19 | She was wearing the coat with all the buttons and buckles that she had worn the first time I saw her outside Kaama 's flat . |
| 20 | She saw immediately that she had said the wrong thing . |
| 21 | Again she knew at once that she had said the wrong thing . |
| 22 | The few moments that Merrill spent in front of the mirror told her that she had made the right decision to wear the black dress which exposed one bare shoulder . |
| 23 | She felt that she had given the whole thing away , that the Hare-woman 's eyes would be able to read all her thoughts from her face and that single word . |
| 24 | Well , to hell with you , sweetheart , she railed , and , her pride once more up in arms , a certainty in her head that she had seen the last of Ven for that night , she rocketed from her bed , took a shower , and got dressed . |
| 25 | The fact was that she had lost the six square inches of canvas allocated for the kettleholder when it was first given out to the class . |
| 26 | She had been so deeply involved with her own emotions that she had lost the imaginative sense that is necessary if you are to see other people as independent entities , locked in their private worlds . |
| 27 | He looked at Nell , and saw that she had reached the same conclusion . |
| 28 | Miss Tucker had made a statement to the police admitting that she had hit the alleged victim , Mr. Reiche , with a baseball bat . |
| 29 | She acknowledged that she had a bad temper but recently she had felt so angry that she had hit the younger child repeatedly around the head and shoulders , bruising him . |
| 30 | For a moment she regretted that she had forfeited the supreme triumph of thrusting the diary entries in front of his face . |