Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought people stopped believing in that years ago . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's about time you and Mummy stopped going to that dreary old Richardson in the High Street and switched to Mr Vigo . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've long ago stopped thinking about that . ’ |
| 4 | And anyone who came calling at that time today must have more time than sense , because today was Tuesday . |
| 5 | And er I got going with that , carting bricks and timber and all that sort of thing for him , got really going and er fetching ballast from train concrete . |
| 6 | sat and got going like that |
| 7 | Well that 's a feeling you got moving around that er what the hell was the good of coming to a meeting you had no say in your conditions or wages or whatever . |
| 8 | ‘ All the time I spent looking at that portrait , probably , ’ he mused , his lips curved in a smile of satisfaction . |
| 9 | ‘ I ca n't remember the last time I enjoyed racing like that , ’ a jubilant Mansell told reporters . |
| 10 | Just as he finished dealing with that , another two containers arrived … . |
| 11 | Using her hands she began paddling in that direction . |
| 12 | ‘ When you started prattling about that man I sometimes saw here before I ever went up to Oxford , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Rufus started laughing at that and said all the doors in his life were strictly never kept closed . |
| 14 | ‘ I loved living in that Provençal château , in that very beautiful part of the world , with Picasso , Braque and Cocteau stopping by , but with Douglas you never knew when kindness would turn to vitriol … |
| 15 | ‘ Palmer & Pearson ? ’ she queried , and discounted that at once because until things started moving on that contract there were no problems . |
| 16 | It was after Mother left that I started thinking like that . " |
| 17 | We once had a neighbour who had and , I kept looking after that , that , and you know , I must say , I quite enjoyed it having . |
| 18 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 19 | ‘ She kept fiddling with that blasted lighter , ’ moaned St Ives . |
| 20 | She kept thinking of that , of their telling Mrs Blakey in the kitchen and Mrs Blakey throwing her head back and laughing . |
| 21 | I kept thinking about that reception as I drove blissfully home . |
| 22 | Well you all sat listening to that with riveted atten riveted attention . |
| 23 | I sat looking at that light for almost two hours , by which time I was desperate . |