Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my hypothetical discussion of cheetahs and gazelles I said that cheetahs , unlike the weather , had a tendency as the generations go by to become ‘ better hunters ’ , to become more severe enemies , better equipped to kill gazelles . |
| 2 | by the time I had gone through five operations I decided that as long as I could breath , that would do me and I , I would really recommend every body to think twice before having any form of plastic surgery , particularly unless its , if its not absolutely necessary . |
| 3 | From the two programmes I learned that , if cash is really short , the DSS will pay for a funeral . |
| 4 | In the second paragraph he said : ’ During our discussions I accepted that there had possibly been some scope for misunderstanding . |
| 5 | When I dared to go to the scales I discovered that I had lost a further ten pounds in five days . |
| 6 | the structured thought patterns I found that the most important because when I was up at the table on the second presentation I was able to have my thoughts relating to the layout already and with in fact just the single element of the subject shown on my paper I could immediately focus on that and in fact give the details of that right the way through . |
| 7 | I remember a man with a family of several young children who worked at the plant saying at one of the first local public meetings I addressed that it would certainly change his mind about nuclear power if the link with leukaemia was substantiated . |
| 8 | Nothing happened , except that after a few minutes I checked that no one had come into the room to observe such antics ! |
| 9 | From his signs I understood that they were going to move me . |
| 10 | " Forty times I made that ride there and back — in the bus , not the jeep like you two , " he told us . |
| 11 | I had the club already going , was dealing with mainly young people , and as you will know young people 's taste tends to vary quite considerably and very quickly , so I might well be very successful for so long and then if suddenly taste changed and I had n't got the ability to change with the times I realized that it would be rather precarious , so I needed a second string to my bow . |
| 12 | Opening my eyes I saw that Rozanov had pitched to the floor . |
| 13 | When I had finished and opened my eyes I noted that she had the cup in one hand and the saucer in the other . |
| 14 | After reading some of the criticisms from readers in the past few months I felt that it was about time I wrote in . |
| 15 | Yes , and the girls had three months ' notice to leave and on the last day at three months I heard that a young lady had left the Post Office . |
| 16 | ‘ However , after looking at the still pictures I realised that Gerrard and Obolensky were in excellent positions for the pass to the right . |
| 17 | However , when Dolly Howard thought she would peep through the curtains to see how her father was reacting to the nudes she found that she was the one who was shocked . |
| 18 | She read her books with an intense concentration — and she learned what Johnny had to do , and of the terrible odds that were stacked against him ; for as she , in her time , moved towards the middle of July , she knew that , for Johnny , it was August ; and in one of her books she learned that it was in August , between the 8th and the 15th , that the most heavily concentrated forces of enemy bombers had been sent against the military installations , and the ports and airfields of Britain . |
| 19 | According to the itinerary Wednesday was a rest day but after a half-hearted attempt at browsing around the Keswick shops we decided that the call of the fells was too strong to resist and headed for the Langdales . |
| 20 | As we walked through a network of pipes and valves we realized that this was what Hinkley C would look like before its radioactive inventory took over and no human beings could enter where we were standing . |
| 21 | During these months we found that we were part of what amounts to a movement in Britain today , with churches springing up everywhere . |
| 22 | For solutions they thought that London could be considered from three points of view : as a community — where people live , work and play ; as a metropolis — the seat of Government and a great cultural and commercial centre ; and as a machine — of locomotion . |
| 23 | In other words they hoped that by self-denial the Americans could dissuade the Russians from attempting it . |
| 24 | To American eyes it seemed that the whole of South-East Asia was now threatened . |
| 25 | As he walked between the lines of cars he saw that one of them was parked so it was sticking out . |
| 26 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 27 | In other words he concluded that , as to that , Miss T. had neither consented nor refused . |
| 28 | In Dicey 's words it meant that ‘ whenever men act in concert for a common purpose they tend to create a body , which from no fiction of law but from the very nature of things , differs from the individuals of whom it is constituted . ’ |
| 29 | — The question of job swaps was not clear in Tim 's paper — for example for Area Secretaries it meant that they wanted to job swap they could do so by moving region |
| 30 | As he raised it to his lips he saw that it was brimming with drowned black insects . |