Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] that this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To this day I have not played much Chinese music , and certainly not a concerto , and so I thought that this would be a good opportunity to explore that — a least to give Hsiao the encouragement to write one . ’ |
| 2 | And so I decided that this was rather an unfair situation — why should n't women be able to do what a man did ? |
| 3 | He did not contradict her but just said nothing and so she felt that this was criticism of her handling of the problem . |
| 4 | Instinctively she knew that this was what he wanted to hear . |
| 5 | Instinctively she knew that this was Stavros , the Greek man that her brothers had been constantly talking about since Anthony 's death . |
| 6 | Thereafter he decided that this was a job for Foreign Secretaries . |
| 7 | Years later I discovered that this process had been studied by a distinguished scientist , Beveridge , and described in a book The Art of Scientific Investigation . |
| 8 | But later I discovered that this and the surrounding fields — 850 acres in all — were the proposed site of a 5,000-house new town . |
| 9 | When the film was repeated a couple of weeks later I decided that this was another omen . |
| 10 | During this month I led the life for which I had always yearned hunting big game on my own in the wilds of Africa ; but now I realized that this expedition had meant more to me than just the excitement of hunting . |
| 11 | Now I mentioned that this was Chest Week and it 's the first time that the er Chest , Heart and Stroke Association have had a , a , a week specifically aimed at people with chest problems , or , or looking at chest problems . |
| 12 | Undecided , she had wondered if it might be too formal , but now she realised that this was going to be no jeans-and-sweater occasion . |
| 13 | Not long ago I thought that this date did n't concern me or Palestinian women in general ’ . |
| 14 | Some months ago I suggested that this could be done in a new version of Question Time . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm just coming , ’ called Lydia , thinking how amusing it would be to make a big splash and drowning noises , but even she knew that this would not be the action of a nice woman . |
| 16 | okay Right you mentioned it a few minutes ago you suggested that this thing was formed . |
| 17 | How simply we believed that this wasteland was the immediate effect of social antagonism , community tension , civil war . |
| 18 | Then I realized that this was just the beginning . |
| 19 | Then I realised that this was unlikely and to my relief I found an apple ; slightly bruised by its encounter with me in my bed . |
| 20 | Indeed I hoped that this book might begin to give some clues about the origin of the tingle or the goose-pimples ; but I was disappointed . |
| 21 | For example , they lived very much longer than one would have expected , and Gellmann said well these were strange particles and he invented a new quantum number called a strangeness , and then he assumed that this strangeness quantum number was not quite conserved. erm we have conserved quantum numbers in physics like the charge — you have to conserve the charge , but you do n't quite have to conserve the strangeness . |
| 22 | Yet he saw that this rough humour would not serve . |
| 23 | Afterwards I realised that this idea was wrong . |