Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to find that horse |
| 2 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 3 | And he 'd always ask how much I 'd eaten that day . ’ |
| 4 | Well , cos it was in town , it was nearer to shops , and erm I 'd heard that keeping Balloon Woods ' flats warm was costing people a hell of a lot of money . |
| 5 | I 'd heard that noise before , but never from Selina . |
| 6 | I was pretty sure I 'd seen that coin before , in that very hotel . |
| 7 | I wish now I 'd asked that question . |
| 8 | Once I 'd made that decision nothing was going to stop me . |
| 9 | ‘ I wish I 'd made that point to the Committee . ’ |
| 10 | He was the first person I 'd met that day who did n't know what a dolmen was . |
| 11 | This statement , from two ladies as eccentric and charmingly Irish as anyone I 'd met that day , just about summed up my own feelings . |
| 12 | If I 'd wanted that kind of wife , I 'd have married Eleanor . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd passed that fella on the road an' when I looked back she was talking to him ; then when I turned the cart into the alley the next minute , she was flying past , almost throwing the child at me . |
| 14 | I 've got quite into port though , I 'd finished that bottle of port by Tuesday night |
| 15 | I 'd won that game . |
| 16 | He rung up to apologize that er that , I 'd got that fax . |
| 17 | I were right here and I 'd got that light out |
| 18 | And I 'd know that I 'd incurred that expense . |
| 19 | Oh yes , I 'd forgotten that bit . |
| 20 | Like a fool , I 'd forgotten that Dad thought honesty a virtue . |
| 21 | Yes you 're right I 'd forgotten that boat trip . |
| 22 | I 'd had that years , it really bugged me . |
| 23 | And and the write up in one of the papers well I was well I 'd to tell that guy if he 's watching I can ya nip ! |
| 24 | I happened to chair that conference , and I think I was surprised by the depressing effect that this reform was seen to hold for so many of our membership , particularly the smaller , local voluntary organisations . |
| 25 | ‘ I hated making that film . |
| 26 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 27 | I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence . |
| 28 | ‘ I enjoyed playing that role . |
| 29 | I arranged to visit that afternoon and to go through it with Mr and Mrs Singh . |
| 30 | So , when I finished reading that explanation of it , maybe I 'll have a stab at it . |