Example sentences of "[vb past] that [indef pn] in the " in BNC.

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1 Suddenly he realized that everyone in the queue was staring at him with frank interest and uninhibited hostility .
2 The school trip was an example of massive disorganized organization : every minute of every day was officially occupied , and Clara wasted some time before she realized that nobody in the whole world would care or even notice whether she attended each event or not .
3 It seemed that everything in the championship really hung on the reliability of each driver 's car .
4 The bed faced the window that looked out over miles of countryside and it seemed that everything in the room was white , from the white , frilled curtains to the dainty white duvet cover and pillow case all edged with broderie anglaise .
5 Ubaldo Valesio reckoned that someone in the family was passing on information .
6 But she was emphatically not sorry for anything she 'd said , and she decided that nothing in the world would make her say she was .
7 The judges who decided McLoughlin worried about the most accurate description of the principles underlying the precedent cases cited to them , although they knew that nothing in the explicit extension of any convention settled what these principles were or what weight they should be given .
8 The ocean carrier , therefore , was deemed to warrant to the consignor safe transport and delivery and could avoid liability only if he proved that something in the nature of force majeure had intervened .
9 For several decades most scientists assumed that the discrepancy was too negligible to worry about : after all , no one said that everything in the Universe should work perfectly .
10 Mr Adamson , of Banklands Road , Darlington , has no connection with the former soldier but hoped that someone in the town might be able to help .
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