Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | In the Merry & Co office , I 'd learned that each carriage ( built of strong unpainted corrugated aluminium with the corrugated lying horizontally ) was eighty-five feet long ; and there were fifteen carriages in all , counting the horses , the baggage and the Lorrimores . |
| 3 | and I was thinking where on earth is there a shop in that sells , sells things like that or do you have to go to a garage and I 'd forgotten that that fruit |
| 4 | As the lorry braked ferociously in the lonely country road with a hiss of air brakes , and began to career backwards towards my Mini , its reversing lights two angry eyes beaming at me , I began to see that same skyline as the place I most wanted to be . |
| 5 | There was a constant flow of MPs to see them , and I began to realise that these were drawn from a wide cross-section of the Party . |
| 6 | but around 1950 I began to realise that this was n't getting me anywhere , so I gave up painting with oil paints and began instead to draw with oils . |
| 7 | It was only then I began to grasp that several of these old dears , whose daily habit to foregather here it clearly was , were as drunk as lords and were being helped not because of their age , but because otherwise they would fall down . |
| 8 | As we began to talk I began to realize that these people were just like me . |
| 9 | I began to feel that this was a euphemism for " fall from grace " . |
| 10 | I started to realise that this was a kind of bridge toward the next part of life , whatever that may be . |
| 11 | ‘ Not that I meant to imply that that 's why Emma — that you were ’ He gestured helplessly , the sentence impossible to retrieve now . |
| 12 | To me all the cows looked similar — small and black all over although I did recognize that some had longer horns and a few had none at all . |
| 13 | I did realise that this was simply a preliminary romp — an hors d'oeuvre — and I kept the forthcoming main dish in mind . |
| 14 | Come to think of it , I did hear that those nuns had caught themselves a gypsy . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | I had decided that all my stuff was irretrievably lost ; that I did not want to continue my projected journey but would strike out and do something different — go to Ecuador perhaps and if possible from there into Brazil . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Neither Julia nor I had realised that some delegates would be registering on the Saturday morning for the first time — we had n't covered this . |
| 19 | I had hoped that some progress would be made in the autumn and I am disappointed that that has not happened . |
| 20 | I had hoped that these weekends of dashing about Britain with estate agents ' details in my lap were a thing of the past . |
| 21 | Now I had to remember that this was a complicated young guy . |
| 22 | I had to say that this was not always the case ! |
| 23 | Yes I I I had noted that that discussion had gone on and assurances have been given to Humberside that North Yorkshire would no stray in the sense of putting their new settlement into Humberside . |
| 24 | I am not saying that my trusting God was ‘ all up to me ’ , but that I had to see that all of me was involved in trusting God . |
| 25 | Donegal post office had a ‘ suggestions ’ service , and I had suggested that all Irish pillar boxes be repainted red once more , instead of bureaucratic green . |
| 26 | I had suggested that some of our guests might enjoy a post-wedding , post-reception , post-dinner nightcap in our hotel room . |
| 27 | I had thought that all anyone could do along was sing . |
| 28 | Silly me — I had thought that that was party policy , but unfortunately there has been some turning of the tide . |
| 29 | I caught the sense of victory in seeing the film of Henry V — just as I had supposed that all schools were like that of Goodbye Mr Chips , which I was taken to see in 1939 . |
| 30 | But I had to accept that this examination was far more important to them . |