Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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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 | ‘ You suspected that from the little you told me that morning at Coutances I had made investigations and found out something . ’ |
27 | I had no idea that it was Martin until you told me that morning . |
28 | ‘ 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | One of the numerous girls in the film , Catherine Schell , told me that Lazenby was never difficult or temperamental . |