Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb past] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , well erm , see I advertised it all round cafe as well that I 'd sent for it as well . |
| 2 | So that black top that sweatshirt top that I 'd got for Lee , it was seventeen ninety nine , you got that for thirteen pounds , forty five erm thirty two pound off . |
| 3 | He was so frightened that I went to look for the animal . |
| 4 | It was with deep regret that I had to leave for home later that evening . |
| 5 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |
| 6 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 7 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 8 | But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand . |
| 9 | Those were the words that I had written for Antoinette ! |
| 10 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 11 | Something inside that empty bottle that I had ignored for so long was hitting back . |
| 12 | And then it just became a drug that I had to take for every day use . |
| 13 | Major Hal , who met us on arrival , insisted that I had qualified for membership in the ‘ Short-Snorters ’ Club ’ . |
| 14 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 15 | However , despite the fact that I had to pay for the survey , the society will not allow me to have a copy of the report . |
| 16 | I almost wish now that I had settled for chronic asthma with which to punish Miller , dispensing with the limp and the sausage fingers altogether . |
| 17 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 18 | I found it so enjoyable that I wanted to register for the complete game . |
| 19 | It would be paranoia , of course , to suggest that someone had arranged for him to drop into this particular hole , but it was certainly true that no one would be eager to fish him out . |
| 20 | The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man . |
| 21 | To her great relief , however , Fabia subsequently discovered that she had asked for a quite delicious meal of venison with bacon , mushrooms and tomatoes . |
| 22 | It turned out that she had gone for a hill walk on her own with an agreed pick up point by him in the car . |
| 23 | It was true also that she gave English lessons and that she had applied for a full-time job as an English teacher in a small private school . |
| 24 | He had realised it before she had , and somehow the sympathy that had been briefly in those blue eyes , that she had mistaken for some sort of liking , was far more disturbing than his hard , cool look . |
| 25 | As it happened , this queen mother was the most remarkable and able of them all , and it is therefore something of an irony that she had to wait for twelve years , until 1554 , and stage a successful coup , before obtaining the place which earlier queen mothers had immediately enjoyed . |
| 26 | She wanted desperately to reach out to him , but she knew that she had to wait for him to make the first move . |
| 27 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
| 28 | Clelia 's visit , however , was all that she had hoped for . |
| 29 | She said that she knew about it and that she had known for quite a while . |
| 30 | Candida Gray , Candida Gray , a name that she had known for as many years as she had known any such names ; she had not read as many of the novels as she ought to have done , but she had read one at least , and that one she actually remembered . |