Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I felt helpless and despairing and suddenly so ill that I had to clutch at the door to stop myself falling . |
2 | Knowing that I had to start at a new school in the city , with new people and new teachers , I began to worry all over again . |
3 | The kitchen looked so clean and bright , and the ladies so kind and sensible , that I dared to knock at the door . |
4 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
5 | She was with a stranger and told friends that she intended to stay at the site as long as possible and then possibly go to Portsmouth . |
6 | ‘ I 'm told the front rows in the Moore tragedy were so close that they had to bend at the waist to get in ’ , said Akpata . |
7 | His face was smiling and , when you tapped the head , it rocked on a concealed axle so that he seemed to chortle at the absurdity of human antics . |
8 | But I knew that it would be difficult to persuade Jimbo that he had to work at the exercises : yet if the treatment were to succeed , it had to be him — Jimbo himself — who , in the end , would reopen the pathway of nerves between brain and muscle . |
9 | Bettino Craxi , whose leadership of the Socialist Unity Party was under serious challenge [ see p. 39114 ] , announced on Nov. 7 that he proposed to resign at an unspecified date and suggested Prime Minister Giuliano Amato as his successor . |