Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He drove me home that night . |
| 2 | A former Minister of the Republic of Ireland told me recently that sovereignty did not mean the same for the people of Ireland as it did for us . |
| 3 | I told him either that file went up the Hill maybe with the list he 'd recruited or it all went in the shredder . ’ |
| 4 | My son joined me later that year . |
| 5 | He telephoned me late that evening — when they began to worry about her — asking if she 'd been here . |
| 6 | I would n't live in it if you paid me twice that amount . |
| 7 | His success in calming her down reassured them both that anger could be tamed . |
| 8 | ‘ The creative use of leisure ’ sociologists called it and it worried them badly that fret-work and bird-watching might be all there was to fulfil people after pressing the buttons at the fully-automatic , atom-powered , closed-circuit-TV-monitored , computer-directed plant for a couple of four-hour shifts a week . |
| 9 | They took me home that night in Gillian 's rebarbatively quotidian motor-car . |