Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] that this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately she 'd sensed that this was wrong , that there was nothing for her in this office , and that she 'd be at risk if she stayed around a moment longer than was necessary . |
| 2 | And she had n't honestly thought he had — until just a few hours ago on the beach when he 'd said that this was goodbye . |
| 3 | I mean if if I 'd done that this morning and I 'd written it all up before you came in and then said well what we 've done is this and then we did that and then we did that but as as it was generated as we discussed then then you were with me I hope at the way it went |
| 4 | He 'd replied that this was n't a sound reason , and anyway he 'd only die on her . |
| 5 | He had guessed that this place was a palace to her , and she wondered suddenly if she was a complete fool even to consider getting mixed up in his world , when it was so far removed from her own . |
| 6 | By now the Boeing company had realised that this was a matter of fundamental importance to one of their primary aircraft types and they sent their top rank engineers and metallurgists to participate , under the supervision of American investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board , in the UK investigation . |
| 7 | At a turn of the clockwork motor of the bulky camera , Leavitt had proclaimed that this submission to the seasons , to the rains , to the predations of lions , to the pasturing of cattle and all the placatory rituals that went with it , was unnecessary . |
| 8 | He told me that his civil servants had said that this was impossible , and adumbrated the problem to me . |
| 9 | Germany was constitutionally permitted only to send troops in defence of NATO territory , although following the December 1990 all-German election Chancellor Helmut Kohl had conceded that this rule would have to be changed . |
| 10 | Returning to my seat after the second interval , I had decided that this was a first night which had somehow not ‘ taken off ’ and that all kinds of good intentions had somehow failed to coalesce , though they probably would later in the run . |
| 11 | The English climate , having given its clients a long series of warm sunny days , had decided that this must be paid for . |
| 12 | Knowing her children , the teacher had decided that this activity was suitable for them . |
| 13 | They were sheep who had decided that this was no time to waste energy panicking when it could be used for galloping away as fast as possible . |
| 14 | Yet both parties had considerably advanced public expenditure , particularly on social policies , to the point where some economists had argued that this kind of expenditure had become an inflationary force , limiting the scope for new wealth-creating private investment . |
| 15 | The defendant had argued that this information , ie the knowledge that the combination of the two ingredients produced an effective drier could not be protected by an injunction since the knowledge of that combination was knowledge which the second defendant must inevitably have taken away from the plaintiffs when he left their employment and that he could not proceed to expunge that knowledge from his mind . |
| 16 | The foresters attached the forest dwellers every year if their dogs were not lawed , although the Charter of the Forest had promised that this should be done only every three years . |
| 17 | For a moment she had thought that this might be DeVore 's final little game with her , but now she knew . |
| 18 | Everybody had thought that this would be the best idea since bringing back the death penalty . |
| 19 | Madge and I had discussed beforehand whether or not she should promise to obey her husband , and had agreed that this promise should be omitted . |
| 20 | However , in 1334 Edward III had agreed that this tax should become a stereotyped levy based upon fixed quotas for each locality . |
| 21 | The same glorious sensation as she had felt that instant when , poised on the highest diving-board , she had known that this time she really did dare , that moment of poise and thrill before the free-fall . |
| 22 | I had known that this was pending but when , over the last few weeks , I had enquired when they were going to start out , the reply was always the same , ‘ Oh , I think we 'll wait a bit and hope for some warmer weather . ’ |
| 23 | Strategically that made little sense , for the Wilds were almost empty , yet it was as if the City 's architect had known that this vast , jagged hole — this primitive wilderness at the heart of its hive-like orderliness — would one day prove its weakest point . |
| 24 | Wu and Wilcox ( 27 ) had previously expressed in E.coli the 140k codons 417 to 647 , preceeded by 323 codons derived from the trpE ORF , and had found that this fusion peptide bound DNA in a sequence-specific manner . |
| 25 | Then , fourteen years later , after it had seemed that this strange fish had appeared only to disappear totally , another was caught , not off South Africa but a thousand miles away in Anjouan , one of the tiny Comoro Islands that lie in the Indian Ocean midway between Madagascar and the coast of Tanzania . |
| 26 | The rector , as he had intended , found Dimity alone in the house , for he had observed Ella striding towards Lulling Woods , basket in hand , and had remembered that this was the day on which the eggs were collected . |
| 27 | The report said the department had acknowledged that this was a technically high-risk project . |
| 28 | Investigators had concluded that this suitcase had reached Frankfurt on an Air Malta flight which left Malta earlier that day . |
| 29 | Knox J at first instance had assumed that this information was confidential as he did prices and discounts allowed to customers . |
| 30 | ‘ I am familiar with the darker view which encompasses bestiality , incest , parricide , rustling , infanticide and the murderous rivalry within the Women 's Institute , but I had imagined that this view was the product of a warped approach to life and greatly exaggerated . ’ |