Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unbearable that the gallery girl should imagine that I belonged to Syl , that his glances and suggestive remarks had ensnared me . |
| 2 | The result of all this was that I returned to Europe and settled in Paris with her . |
| 3 | It was not until eleven years later that I returned to England and saw Biddy and Joe again , although I had been writing regularly to them . |
| 4 | Imagine , said Francis , that I returned to Perugia on the darkest of nights , a night so cold that everything is covered with snow , and the frost in the folds of my habit hits my legs and makes them bleed . |
| 5 | I was so anxious not to be late for my appointment that I got to Passy two hours early . |
| 6 | But anyway apart from that I said to Mr , he 's the head over all the hydroelectric stations over this erm I said Mr li these commutators I told him doing the . |
| 7 | The reason why we arrange trade missions such as the one that I led to Kuwait — six similar missions have been conducted — is our interest in stimulating orders for the new Welsh economy . |
| 8 | The first evidence of this surfaced on the second trip that I made to Rhodesia , in April 1971 . |
| 9 | I chose residential care and so it was that I came to Le Court In September 1977 . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's late , and about time that I went to bed . |
| 11 | 'After that I went to sleep . ’ |
| 12 | It was then that I went to school for the first time , to a Roman Catholic convent in Ealing , not because of my parents ' religious beliefs but because it was thought to be educationally superior to any of the state-run schools in the locality . |
| 13 | And I st when I started this aerobic class there was four girls up there that I went to school with in my class at school . |
| 14 | First I 'll divulge that I went to Bristol — they 'll know that already if they 're bright enough — then I 'll say I went to this Bed and Breakfast — then I looked for a job … |
| 15 | I have always counted on my fingers and still do and I had been so nervous about this that I went to classes with the ATC in Darrowby before my call-up , dredging from my schooldays horrific calculations about trains passing each other at different speeds and water running in and out of bath tubs . |
| 16 | I started off smoking hash ; from that I went to acid , LSD , speed , things like that . |
| 17 | I regarded it as a very happy accident that I went to U.C.L. to study English , not knowing at the time that I was going to a Department and to a College distinguished for English language studies . |
| 18 | Others claim that I went to St Tropez on a tip-off , bumped into Angeli and only then struck up a deal for the Daily Mirror to have exclusive pictures . |
| 19 | I recovered quickly , I 'm glad to say , but I could n't leave because they insisted that I stayed to lunch . |
| 20 | So it was with some hope that I travelled to Scotland . |
| 21 | This led to another form of coaching , I just can not remember how my interest in tennis arose , save that I used to practice for hours against an airman 's table top fixed to the netting of an old tennis court . |
| 22 | It was with considerable interest that I turned to Bernard Denvir 's ‘ In View ’ report on ‘ Art and the East End ’ . |
| 23 | The four visits that I paid to Rhodesia in 1971 with my small team of senior officials were regarded as furnishing sufficient firm ground to found serious negotiations towards a settlement . |
| 24 | On the last occasion that I spoke to Lady More , our President , she gave me permission to reprint this extract from the book . |
| 25 | I can mention that I spoke to Maurin at his gallery . ’ |
| 26 | Suffice as it 's to say that the negotiations did provide for extra seats for Germany in account of the additional population that accrued to Germany from the reunification of East and West Germany and er er at the same time the opportunity was taken to allot some extra seats to some other countries er which erm bore in mind er more closely than before , the respective differences in population sizes of the various countries that make up the community , er the two special committees that I referred to Mr Deputy Speaker , were set up in July nineteen ninety three . |
| 27 | ‘ Who told you by the way — that I talked to Nicola about the presenter 's job ? ’ |
| 28 | But the fact remains that I retreated to Gullholm because it 's the one place in my world free of the entire sex . ’ |
| 29 | The Labour front bench exploited the recent disclosures over hidden subsidies to sweeten the sale of the Rover Group , telling Mrs Thatcher that she went to Strasbourg with a tarnished reputation . |
| 30 | The Labour front bench exploited the recent disclosures over hidden subsidies to sweeten the sale of the Rover Group , telling Mrs Thatcher that she went to Strasbourg with a tarnished reputation . |