Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture . |
| 2 | Now that those people have run up those enormous debts , where are the Labour Members of Parliament who led them into that position ? |
| 3 | Rumours have suggested Susan Hill was given a million pounds for writing it , she says she got nothing like that amount . |
| 4 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |
| 5 | I know it was only the extra weight of the Cross that got me up that hill . |
| 6 | Pollensa and Alcudia were in the north of the island and Fernando owned nothing in that region . |
| 7 | I do n't know why my search drew me to that part of the house , except that Curtis was the only soul in it other than myself and Leon . |
| 8 | He let someone into that church , a thief , another derelict , a psychopath , and that person killed him . |
| 9 | Old tombstones provided her with that lit match to the powder trail of her imagination . |
| 10 | Nobody excelled him in that judgement , with which he united his own observations on nature , the energy of Michelangelo , and beauty and simplicity of the antique . |
| 11 | Danger of choking stopped him at that point . |
| 12 | ‘ So what I 'm working up to telling you is that when he got silly he let anyone in that house . |
| 13 | I loathe the plots hatched by the Spanish government to slip ‘ Guernica ’ surreptitiously into Spain with the promise that it would be put on show at the whorehouse they call the Prado and then moved it to that pigsty , the Reina Sofia . |
| 14 | ‘ Around 80 Subject Assessors visited us during that fortnight , and every module was looked at . |
| 15 | My Dad ( who smoked ! ) caught us on that occasion and my punishment was being forced to smoke a whole cigarette ( which I did n't want ) in front of my friends who were called into the front room especially to witness the humiliation . |
| 16 | Well he , he appreciated at the previous table show on the sixth of October and that was a case when it was always you know , because Danny only told me on that night that he could come . |
| 17 | Tess , when you told me about that child of ours , my feelings for you became strong again . |
| 18 | You told me about that disaster . |
| 19 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 20 | He wondered what reduced someone to that state , the Lowry figures who mingled with the punks and skinheads . |
| 21 | In 1330 , however , Edward III successfully rid himself of that control and Mortimer was himself executed . |
| 22 | When I got back ooh you know I told you about that job ? |
| 23 | Erm I told you about that chap Michael Bell who wrote to me about using my book as play , I 'll read you his letter some other week . |
| 24 | do you remember when I told you about that baby on the maternity ward |
| 25 | ( President Assad told him on that occasion that Saddam Hussein was like a chain-smoker : ‘ He can not help lighting another one before he has finished the first . |
| 26 | I told her of that woman novelist who made a character in Provence ladle out onion soup , followed by bouillabaisse for luncheon , and in summer too . |
| 27 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 28 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 29 | They had you by your short and curlies the minute they got you into that uniform . ’ |
| 30 | The United Kingdom based itself in that regard on international law and on the need for the flag state effectively to exercise jurisdiction over the owners , charterers and operators of vessels flying its flag . |