Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked her that night , when the children were in bed . |
| 2 | I asked you that night because I could n't go on not knowing one way or the other . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I had just not met the right woman before I met you that night . |
| 5 | I envied you that day the way I 'd never envied any other man ; just for having her beside you . |
| 6 | ‘ But I promised you that painting on your wedding day , and I had to send it . ’ |
| 7 | I told her that story . |
| 8 | I told her that oiling was not our job and that management was always trying to make us do more work for the same pay . |
| 9 | ‘ But Mother went scarlet when the boss 's wife told me what a nice suit I was wearing , and I told her that Mother had spent nearly all night making it . ’ |
| 10 | Well I told you that man was trimming trees at the bottom , the other day . |
| 11 | You know , I told you that day Ju I saw Julie walking down top of Broadway ? |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know why I told you that story — it is n't one I 'm very proud of . |
| 13 | Er er , you know I told you that thingy ? |
| 14 | I told you that butter was n't good for watches ! ’ he said angrily to the March Hare . |
| 15 | I told you that pea joke . |
| 16 | which like I say saw one up at erm I told you that fireplace shop on the corner , mind you I think we 'll get Edwards in , he had some in about a hundred and sixty quid or so |
| 17 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 18 | I told you that mother three months ago . |
| 19 | my , I told you that mother 's day one was one ninety nine |
| 20 | So I showed him that letter you had . |
| 21 | She were laughing when I showed her that letter I got , cos she got one the same morning , , she said , and it said , and you can go round and talk to him . |
| 22 | I was so disquieted by it that I finished it that evening . |
| 23 | ‘ You lying git , I heard you that time . ’ |
| 24 | We agreed that the accusation was obviously nonsense , but I warned him that rape , like child abuse , was a powerfully charged topic at present in England . |
| 25 | Gabriel went on , ‘ And then I saw her that night , remember ? |
| 26 | I saw it that way towards . |
| 27 | That weekend is also memorable for something Dana said to me in the train on the way back to Salamanca : ‘ I knew you were gay as soon as I saw you that morning in the galleria . ’ |
| 28 | You 'll never know how nearly I took you that night . |
| 29 | How he had overcome all the complex problems of graft-rejection , septicaemia , and so on — not to mention the central problem of bestowing life — was beyond me , although I took it that fortune had favoured his researches . |
| 30 | ‘ You know , I gave her that room to herself when she came to us , because I thought it would be better , and she treated me like a servant — well , you saw , did n't you ? — and when she 'd got all the fun and sense of power out of that little game she started coming down with us . |