Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy had been saying nothing , letting him speak without interruption ; he 'd seemed almost to forget that she was there , but now he fell silent as if the vividness of the memories inside his head had made the words somehow redundant . |
| 2 | Wayne had rung in to say that he was sick , which meant that the little creep did n't want to drive past the picket line . |
| 3 | Claudine had phoned indignantly to say that you had taken Marie 's key , ordered the poor little thing away and taken possession of the farmhouse . ’ |
| 4 | Vologsky had not monitored all his automatic recording , but he had seen enough to know that things were really serious . |
| 5 | He had not had time to compare more than a few paragraphs scattered throughout each text , but he had seen enough to know that their contents were practically identical . |
| 6 | He had ignored everything she had said previously to indicate that there was nothing between her and Florian , so why should tonight be any different ? |
| 7 | Grunte had written back to say that he would be delighted , and to expect him at mid-day . |
| 8 | Then there had been the months of creeping doubt , the lack of any real communication between them , and the hostile silences when Julius had refused even to admit that anything was wrong . |
| 9 | If he had set out to prove that the passionate interlude on the road this morning had been genuine on his part he had certainly succeeded . |
| 10 | Jasper had cut in to say that of course he understood this : " Everyone did . " |
| 11 | He had gone on to remark that the Toraja combined various features which were rarely found together : they had hunted heads , believed in a celestial origin , practised a primeval megalithism , built sophisticated architecture and produced a unique written ( or , rather , carved-and-painted ) language , which very few scholars can read . |
| 12 | If I should cry , trying to express the inexpressible , that I had walked the wind with archangels , she would have been worried and annoyed ; and if I had gone on to say that I had forfeited those heights and lived now in an unremitting shadowless glare of exposure in a runnel of Hell , she would have feared for my mental health . |
| 13 | There had not been time yet to find out exactly how brilliant the child was , but Miss Honey had learned enough to realise that something had to be done about it as soon as possible . |
| 14 | I had read enough to know that the figures for anorexics who starve to death or commit suicide are frighteningly high . |
| 15 | I had read enough to know that the way the Bristol Cancer Help Centre promulgated was a considerable challenge , although how hard a challenge I was only to appreciate later . |