Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Graham and Russell , if anything more composed , made them defend that advantage , and the Chelsea defence responded with a disorder to which only Ken Monkou was an exception . |
| 2 | When W. H. Auden once found him playing that game and asked him why he seemed to relish it , he reflected gravely and then replied , " Well , I suppose it 's the nearest thing to being dead " . |
| 3 | Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart . |
| 4 | He rang the hospital and told them to stop that man sending letters . |
| 5 | The attorney agreed with Haydon about the injustice of the proceedings , and told him to return that evening to settle the matter finally . |
| 6 | Then something , a movement to her right , caused her to turn that way . |
| 7 | ‘ I told her to check that seal . ’ |
| 8 | The cabbie 's expression told anyone interested that Christmas was probably not his favourite time of year . |
| 9 | It seemed he heard that question again , a thousand years ago and in another world . |
| 10 | " You would n't get the wrong idea if I asked you to put that light out , would you ? " she asked . |
| 11 | Clothes were irrelevant … only flesh mattered to her where Damian was concerned , because she did not just want the hard , ambitious chairman of the board , but the man of flesh and blood whom she loved more powerfully than she could put into words , and only the silent communication of their bodies allowed her to express that love … |
| 12 | 8e Lawrence admitted : ‘ We watched them play that day and they slaughtered us . |
| 13 | And it needed something to break that cycle . |
| 14 | We watched him creating that knitting , talking about colour and going round and looking at the things which had inspired his imagination in his designing . |
| 15 | And there was a Yorkshire firm covered it covered that road tarmac or something they said , It 'll last twenty years . |
| 16 | But to have a trolley they needed money , their father 's money , and when Patsy suggested the idea to him , their father laughed and asked them where they expected him to find that sort of money . |
| 17 | The man 's trembling want of her made her feel that speck grow into a force ; she began to enjoy denying him , then permitting him again , she used her strength to grip and pin him and squeeze him in parts that made him cry out , to gouge and scratch his pale , thin flesh , she fortified him with tisanes that make men what was called in her language ‘ cross ’ , and gave him leaves to chew to stay his excitement so she could explore the crustacean pinkness of his flesh and turn her curiosity and its tinge of disgust to a form of power over him which gave her pleasure . |
| 18 | ‘ a police officer should be grateful if he could point to a clear cut instruction that he was only to stop a meeting if some incident at the meeting itself , whether caused by the speaker and his supporters or by the opposition present at the meeting place , led him to suppose that disorder was inevitable and could not be averted by any other means . ’ |
| 19 | He 'd never met a woman who made him feel that way , and , let's face it , he was n't getting any younger . |
| 20 | He said he knew it sounded crazy , but ever since he 'd read it he 'd wanted to experience it , but had never met a woman who made him feel that way . ’ |
| 21 | Some feeling like that which had attacked Jim Nesbitt last year and made him marry that girl in Durham , who , to his mind , had nothing going for her . |
| 22 | The garage attendant , who almost called in a SWAT team when he saw me arrive that morning , had a few more palpitations when he watched me climb in the back seat and start peeling off my biker 's gear . |
| 23 | ‘ Nerina , ’ said Mrs Khalid , ‘ supposing your brother saw you wearing that T-shirt . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I thought you meant that smack of his , that 's all . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I thought you enjoyed that sort of thing . ’ |
| 26 | I thought you wanted that headphone set ? |
| 27 | She did n't know whether it was from the night that she had overheard his conversation with her mother in the bedroom , or when she saw him fling that shovel at the young man who , she knew , could have felled him with one blow , that she had lost all respect for him . |
| 28 | He spoke a little stiffly , and again Jean-Paul thought he saw that flash of resentment in the eyes , there and then gone . |
| 29 | ‘ Of course , although no one quite knew what happened that morning — you were the only one who knew that … that is , until the results of the blood tests were made available . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Bein' as how I saw what happened that night … ’ |