Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] that [noun] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way .
2	The dank smell of the water was not unpleasant , and for years the scent of la Sologne that enveloped me that night would pierce my memory : a combination of stagnant water , slime , wild mushrooms , wispy dry grasses , sand and well-hung game .
3	I am so glad that the hon. Member for Derby , North asked me that question —
4	He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered .
5	‘ But I promised you that painting on your wedding day , and I had to send it . ’
6	Lydia was so annoyed at this that she could n't think where to begin but promised herself that Finn should suffer for his insolence .
7	What a wonderful Christmas gesture by Nigel Havers to donate £300 to a woman whose plumber charged her that amount for unblocking a toilet .
8	A deputation from the right-wing 92 Group visited her that evening , as did three ministerial members of the No Turning Back Group .
9	She visited him that day .
10	The girl who found him that day by the lake was sent by destiny , by fate , the atheists ' substitute for God .
11	Thus , by selecting the right ‘ task ’ , we have constrained a system we know , because we designed it that way , to be organized redundantly to give a double dissociation .
12	Then they played cards until stifled yawns and missed tricks told them that tiredness was now king .
13	‘ We also told them that failure to act would help swell the ranks of paramilitary organisations .
14	I took each upon my knee and told them that Mamma is gone to Heaven to God Almighty , and asked them both to promise me that they would try to be good children and follow their mother to that happy place … ‘
15	‘ Me dad told me that story abaht Bobby Peel as a lesson .
16	Yeah , you told me that story
17	I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake .
18	He three-putted the 14th , and then the television buggy came past on its way to the 15th , and the guys on board told me that Crenshaw — — who was nearest challenger then — had double-bogeyed 17 .
19	Nobody told me that bit .
20	‘ That 's what poor Thomas told me that afternoon .
21	He told me that hair only shone after much combing , and that the same could be said of style .
22	My mother told me that Dad was on one of his frequent business trips to America and would be home in a couple of days .
23	At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died .
24	When you told me that night in Harcourt Street those things about your private life , honest to God , Stevie , I was not able to eat my dinner .
25	‘ I picked it for you because Jeff told me that blue 's your favourite colour . ’
26	One of the Tory MPs who supported him for the leadership of the party in 1990 told me that Michael Heseltine no longer had a political future .
27	‘ You suspected that from the little you told me that morning at Coutances I had made investigations and found out something . ’
28	I had no idea that it was Martin until you told me that morning .
29	‘ When I was still involved with Vernons , we participated in the introduction of the lotteries in both New York and Sydney , and our experience then told me that football pools would be swept away should lotteries ever come to Britain .
30	Drummond once told me that Radio 3 broadcasts to about 30 minority tastes , each of which is characterised by its intense dislike of the other 29 .

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