Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was always annoyed though , Phil and George were magnificent dancers and the chap I used to walk out with sometimes he er he 'd he he used say now that I look like this ! |
| 2 | I 'd heard somewhere that you ca n't stop it after the end of the third month . |
| 3 | She 'd heard since that he 'd left the health service and gone abroad to work … and now not only was he back , but she was expected to work with him . |
| 4 | He could sense that there was no harm in the Sweeper , and as the days went by and still Minch did not come back , he seemed to sense too that the Sweeper cared and was on his side in wishing for her safe return . |
| 5 | He made a likeness of Helen of Troy which convinced all who came to sacrifice there that the Trojan War had been well fought ; and for this famous portrait , Zeuxis had lined up the young women of Croton , and taking an ear from one , the set of chin from another , the legs , the arms and stomach and so forth of others , he had assembled his divine beauty . |
| 6 | It had been pulling the small cart through backstreets for years now and seemed to know instinctively that it would probably be required to stop at any moment , so there was no point in hurrying . |
| 7 | Ordinary women seemed to know instinctively that from the hip down ( and especially from behind ) culottes produced an unflattering outline , the mini won hands down . |
| 8 | Morse thought it must be the splendid grandfather clock he 'd seen somewhere that he heard chiming the three-quarters ( 10.45 a.m. ) as he and Lewis sat beside each other in a deep settee in the Lancaster Room . |
| 9 | She 'd said then that Alice must have it . |
| 10 | like before the break when you want to have a permanent record of what you 'd done so that you ca n't turn round and say well I do n't remember them conversation |
| 11 | They used to be sent to London and various places ; and when we 'd done all that we got four shillings a hundred for them . |
| 12 | She 'd thought before that he seemed used to power , and looking at him now only served to strengthen that feeling . |
| 13 | I only wish I 'd known before that he was so ill . |
| 14 | Yet if I 'd known then that the cup was Undry … |
| 15 | It is , however , beyond doubt that the overwhelming majority of Cabinet ministers interviewed declared unequivocally that they believed that she could not win . |
| 16 | The first intimation of its scope came when the producer of Yorkshire Television 's daily regional current affairs programme , Calendar , came to complain bitterly that the task of getting that evening 's show on the air had been seriously handicapped . |
| 17 | She 'd realized recently that she did n't like herself much . |
| 18 | She pulled the end of the bath towel across her damp shoulders , and the loose tuck that she 'd used to secure it came undone so that the towel unwound and fell free . |
| 19 | The RUC say it was only because the bomb failed to function properly that lives were not lost and widespread damage caused to homes and businesses . |
| 20 | I forgot to mention earlier that I 'll be standing in for emergency cover tonight . ’ |
| 21 | Sometimes when it got worn like that it would twine round the other soldier so that his head could be pulled off . |
| 22 | It was when they got excited earlier that our boys took a hand . ’ |
| 23 | They also began to suggest strongly that leys were not just the traders ' tracks that Watkins proposed but were closely associated with such earth energy if not actually marking the channels along which such energy might flow . |
| 24 | Dana threatened to do just that if I did n't ‘ dance attendance ’ ; Garry is easily swayed and still half in love with Dana — I dare not risk it . ’ |
| 25 | Sara began to understand then that this was his way of paying out Jenny for her flirtation with James . |
| 26 | Though it was so strange and so cryptic , Boy understood this call , because he began to understand now that there are different kinds of wanting someone . |
| 27 | It should be noted , however , that this method does not produce a true ellipse , which is defined as the locus of a point constrained to move so that the sum of its distance from two fixed points is constant . |
| 28 | However , Weatherbury people began to protest publicly that he should not be held responsible for the crime . |
| 29 | This is because its chronicity can be achieved only by delivering a massive insult or repeated dosing so that it takes a long time for the acute ulcer to heal and often leads to the death of the animal in the acute phase . |
| 30 | Perhaps it is not surprising that , without exception , the professionals to whom we talked stated emphatically that their overriding concern was to act in the interests of their child clients . |