Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presently he drew me aside to suggest that if I would like to give him a certain sum his wife and daughter would go immediately and prepare a gypsy supper . |
| 2 | A project support worker visited her daily to ensure that she ate , and to help keep her clean and safe . |
| 3 | It pleased me immeasurably to know that he could sense the difference now , the promise of fulfilment , which would be the sweeter , it seemed to me , for having been so long deferred . |
| 4 | Although I had wanted to go away and agreed to go away , when the time came I also felt that I was being pushed out of the nest , and that my parents were glad to be rid of me , in that there would be one fewer person to cater for . |
| 5 | control contacted me yesterday to say that erm due to loss of system last week , and the fact that the Easter weekend erm is looming up on us , it means that they 've , they 've got insufficient time to run all the jobs that they needed to erm in the space that they , they would like to run them in . |
| 6 | Finally she called him only to find that he was not in his apartment at Buckingham Palace . |
| 7 | The English discouraged the colony , the Spanish first watched it carefully to see that it showed no sign of succeeding and eventually in 1700 they captured it . |
| 8 | Anyone in the city who knew me also knew that I could be found there , at some time every night , if I was on the planet . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought we just established that it was time to start back ? ’ |
| 10 | Accounts of his sexual prowess have been dismissed by sceptics , but those who knew him better maintain that he was able to exercise extraordinary self-control when making love , so that sex several times a day with different women was perfectly feasible . |
| 11 | A drop of soap trickled into his eyes and he rubbed it only to find that he had created more pain . |
| 12 | Mrs d'Urberville held each bird and felt it carefully to see that it was in good health . |
| 13 | She did n't want him to stop kissing her , but curiosity made her murmur , ‘ Did you honestly believe that I would n't be angry with you for telling me so abruptly that you were Miguelito ? ’ |
| 14 | Did you also know that she had connections with the Dublin and London criminal underworlds ? |
| 15 | Did you also know that in Britain neither sanitary towels nor tampons are sterilised , despite what their individual wrapping might suggest ? |
| 16 | Did you never think that some women may not only say it but feel it ? ’ |
| 17 | Quietly D'Arcy said : ‘ Why did you never mention that you had a wife and child when I was asking about relatives or friends who might be in danger from these Iranians ? ’ |
| 18 | Then there 's ITN 's fascinating headquarters in London 's Grays Inn Road — did you ever realise that glass could be that interesting ? |
| 19 | Did you ever feel that it would be nice to give up struggling and close your eyes and sleep and never wake any more ? |
| 20 | But erm , er , did yo did you , did you ever know that Alan also had an operation for a little |
| 21 | Did you ever see that actually talking concentrating at what you 're saying |
| 22 | Did you actually say that the Paris opera ballet was the best in the world ? |
| 23 | As she spoke she suddenly realised that the whole thing made sense simply because of that , the only thing that mattered . |
| 24 | At no time , not even vaguely , had such a notion occurred to her , nor did she even think that he was not as other men . |
| 25 | Only then did she fully realise that if she had been five minutes later the watchers keeping a lookout for a stray boy might , tomorrow , have been hauling ashore the sodden body of Gus Hambro . |
| 26 | I was just , I mean did they really believe that it would , it would just lead straight on to socialism ? |
| 27 | How did it just happen that Harris could maintain his Offensive despite disastrous occasions like Nuremburg . |
| 28 | Did he also notice that twice as many people would trust him to negotiate on Europe for this country as would trust the Leader of the Opposition ? |
| 29 | Was it that he suddenly realised that his convictions of the past 30 years were false , or did he simply realise that the electorate could not stomach them ? |
| 30 | When Paine stated that a governmental act contrary to the constitution is an act of ‘ power without right ’ , did he thereby imply that such an act would be unconstitutional ? |