Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw a Mummy examined that had been embalmed for 2,000 years ; the embalmer had taken out all the Viscera of the head , Thorax and Abdomen and cut all the flesh off the bones , and the cavities of the Thorax & Abdomen were filled up with Tar , Pitch & c and the form of the leg , Thigh & c were altogether made up of linen Rags dipp 'd in Tar , Pitch , & c so that I have an Opinion that they were allow 'd to carry the dead Body home by pretending to embalm it to preserve the Flesh & c , but you see they either buried or burnt the Flesh : this art always ‘ till lately appeared to me ridiculous as I know how soon putrefaction took place after Death ; since that time I have often thought it would be pleasing if we could fall upon a method of preserving dead Bodies & I thought that mankind in general would wish to have the Bodies of their Friends & c Preserved . |
| 2 | After sailing all day , I reached a small island , where I slept that night . |
| 3 | Perhaps you can guess exactly where I fell that night . |
| 4 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |
| 5 | Do n't you know that Freddie Nash is now sharing Major Hallett 's cottage , where we had that party before Christmas ? |
| 6 | Although given a total of fifty-four times on two tours , which was not bad for an apprentice work mounted as a try-out , the nearest Adieu got to central London was the open-air theatre at Finsbury Park , where they danced that summer . |
| 7 | Also his head still pains him from time to time where he got that knock . |
| 8 | But , although I heard that music , I never saw it as the kind of music I 'd be involved in And that was because Kensal Green was a deprived place and the most deprived people were the blacks . |
| 9 | Erm but to be honest I , I think you 're right about the Christian angle because I do think that erm , although I enjoyed that year , |
| 10 | The last time that I heard that argument so brazenly presented was by Mr. Neville Chamberlain 's spokesman before the war . |
| 11 | The L N E R and L M S. And er I could see then that I knew that superintendent in the private days of the railways . |
| 12 | Oh I did n't notice that I saw that thing in the car but I did n't notice a bracket . |
| 13 | you know the big spread that I saw that time |
| 14 | Then that I got that book back when I became a full time official it was still in the still in the office . |
| 15 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 16 | I confess that I felt that way at the time : the track was , despite the massive pile-up , clear . |
| 17 | I used to tell myself that it was because I wanted so much to believe it that I felt that way . |
| 18 | It must have been for myself as much as any other that I issued that warning : It might be all too easy to take a wrong path ! |
| 19 | ‘ Look , ’ he said , deciding , for the moment , to keep a safe distance between them , ‘ I know you think I nicked them keys , that I did that kiosk and Madge 's house — ‘ |
| 20 | I 'm sorry I told ya and not only that I bought that camera the other week did n't I ? |
| 21 | I was hoping they would find my curling stone , the one that I lost that night that Stewart Candless 's Metalurjic or whatever it was went into the loch . |
| 22 | I was n't aware that I gave that impression . |
| 23 | I do n't think any other caddie in the history of the British Open has worked harder than I did that week . |
| 24 | she said it 's hard enough for people with jobs to exist today without all this and she 's gone back to college on the flexi idea , erm , brush up her typing because she said , now whether she 's thinking of future years , she said when she left here that time , although she got that job she said it was n't easy , she said because I had no bits of paper as such , although when I did the test I passed it , she said it was n't simple , so she 's doing |
| 25 | And she was so hooked in to him that she sensed that changing of mood almost immediately , and the façade split open a little wider . |
| 26 | It is possible to approximate the time that she left that job . |
| 27 | Dorothy had ‘ not often felt more regret ’ than she did that day . |
| 28 | If you paid by cheque or credit card , again you would have some evidence that you spent that money . |
| 29 | what we 'll say to you is that you got that parcel on Tuesday |
| 30 | ‘ I knew from the very start that you sent that poison pen letter , Eleanor . |