Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 2 | After sailing all day , I reached a small island , where I slept that night . |
| 3 | Perhaps you can guess exactly where I fell that night . |
| 4 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |
| 5 | Yeah I reckon that might be lucky seeing you did that |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd like to know just where you got that . ’ |
| 7 | But I said it 's always the way when you think it 's a good examiner she or she , she gives you bad results and when it 's a bad , think oh an awful examiner I mean look at that one where you got that really tough examiner and you and Jenny was the only two that got honours . |
| 8 | The next morning when we woke Rick and I were joined by Mr Ferguson and son where we drank that ’ life saving ’ first coffee of the day and then took the photos of the night 's conquest . |
| 9 | Do n't you know that Freddie Nash is now sharing Major Hallett 's cottage , where we had that party before Christmas ? |
| 10 | What , after all , could be more suitable for the Lionisers than the hotel within whose walls Dickens spent so much time , and where he had completed Nicholas Nickleby , the Albion ‘ where we had that merry night two years ago ’ , he wrote to his friend Forster , an occasion made the merrier by indulgence in the landlord 's ‘ excellent hollands ’ . |
| 11 | Although given a total of fifty-four times on two tours , which was not bad for an apprentice work mounted as a try-out , the nearest Adieu got to central London was the open-air theatre at Finsbury Park , where they danced that summer . |
| 12 | More fundamental doubts about the war were expressed by Richard de Bury Bishop of Durham in his Philobiblion , where he said that ‘ war , wanting discretion of reason , furiously attacks whatever falls in its way , and not being under the guidance of reason it destroys the vessels of reason ’ , and he beseeched ‘ the ruler of Olympus and the most high Dispenser of all the world , that he may abolish war , establish peace , and bring about tranquil times under his own special protection ’ . |
| 13 | Also his head still pains him from time to time where he got that knock . |
| 14 | The report of the European Parliament , entitled ‘ Blue Europe ’ ( document A 2-0319/88 ) , was to the same effect where it stated that |
| 15 | 'Cause I said that before , and they go well why do you need to wait ? |
| 16 | Ordinary kids might go robbing or beating up old ladies , something like that ; I used to come down here 'cause I knew that was n't the right way to let out the aggression . |
| 17 | But , although I heard that music , I never saw it as the kind of music I 'd be involved in And that was because Kensal Green was a deprived place and the most deprived people were the blacks . |
| 18 | Erm but to be honest I , I think you 're right about the Christian angle because I do think that erm , although I enjoyed that year , |
| 19 | it 's me , although I did that , make , make that mistake , right , yes , go on |
| 20 | It was only when I was 26 that I realised that was possible |
| 21 | The last time that I heard that argument so brazenly presented was by Mr. Neville Chamberlain 's spokesman before the war . |
| 22 | The L N E R and L M S. And er I could see then that I knew that superintendent in the private days of the railways . |
| 23 | Mm hear that minute you said that I knew that but it never , it never I mean |
| 24 | Oh I did n't notice that I saw that thing in the car but I did n't notice a bracket . |
| 25 | you know the big spread that I saw that time |
| 26 | I am glad that I got that right . |
| 27 | Then that I got that book back when I became a full time official it was still in the still in the office . |
| 28 | I do n't think there was any word that I said that was n't fully deserved by both the parents and their other daughter Clare . |
| 29 | But I told Malcolm yesterday that I thought that , that we operated on the basis that they trusted everybody . |
| 30 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |