Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of us who witnessed the touch-and-go progress of an ultimately triumphant War and Peace — recorded by Philips for release early next year — feared for the future of the rest , but as Gergiev puts it ‘ that which makes me incredibly proud is that I announced these things and they happened ’ — and , one might add , that inspiration was to hand for rather more performances than the fiercely self-critical Gergiev might admit . |
| 2 | If we also assume that my neighbour assumed that I knew these facts about the world , and that I interpreted her words according to the co-operative principle , then we can also see why the way she actually phrased her request is not only true and relevant , but also brief and clear . |
| 3 | Not that I knew any foreigners , though I recall thinking that there were two kinds . |
| 4 | I remember now that I saw neat features , a nose a little hooked , and a very good figure . |
| 5 | It is not that I wore sleeveless blouses they were always long sleeved and not Choli 's either but even then they disliked it . |
| 6 | ‘ Did you know that I married six months after you did ? |
| 7 | And there 's a lot of erm new books that I got last years for the library |
| 8 | I mentioned this to no one for two practical reasons : one was that I loathed swimming , and if I pretended that I was still menstruating , signing the little red book every four weeks , I should be able to evade an unpleasant experience for at least one week out of four ; the other was that I feared further reprisals might be taken against me . |
| 9 | Don Bennett had always publicly — and to my embarrassment — told anyone who would listen , that I recruited 16,000 Pathfinders for our heavy bomber squadrons and the mosquitos of the Light Night Striking Force . |
| 10 | When I tell them that I spent 17 years in local government , they tell me that I was a masochist . |
| 11 | When I tell people that I spent 10 years in the European Parliament , they tell me that I was a hedonist . |
| 12 | ‘ I worked on various things , but the reason I 'm here is that I spent five years with SimFic working on artificial intelligence . ’ |
| 13 | The final morning brought even more snow , so much so , that I spent 2 hours digging my car out . |
| 14 | In my mind it was so real that I spent several hours on this description . |
| 15 | Did you know , for instance , that I led Birdman on Kilnsey Crag , or that I spent several days top-roping and practising Zero on Idwal 's Suicide Wall ? |
| 16 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 17 | I 'll never know how I made it through to the interval , an hour later , but I do know that I wrenched those lenses out with such force that in the second act I was white-faced , red-eyed , and resembled one of the Brides of Dracula . |
| 18 | I saw that I had new books by my bedside . |
| 19 | On page 37 of his volume of reminiscences [ Burton was to write in an article on rugby ] , Mr Williams is kind enough to suggest that I had distinct possibilities as a player were it not for the lure of tinsel and paint and money and fame and so on . |
| 20 | When I played in the Wimbledon final , I knew that I had certain kinds of weaknesses . |
| 21 | ‘ That I had many acquaintances named Svend and that none of them would run off with a teenager . ’ |
| 22 | Before leaving the village I consulted a chart outside the coastguard station , which confirmed that I had five hours before high tide ; this would give me time to get to the end of Worm 's Head and safely back onto the cliffs without danger of being stranded . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , just as we were on the verge of starting an affair , he heard that I had other irons in the fire . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It was just that I had other things on my mind . |
| 25 | Oh yes indeed , indeed , well only last week I said do need some flowers , come on Thursday they 're fresh , I said I want them now Lionel , I hate to be without flowers in the room and he said well have two for the price of one , he would insist that I had two bunches for the price of one . |
| 26 | So that I had two homes really , because as often as not I was down at her house , as in my own home . ’ |
| 27 | I feel that , apart from this , you showed an interest in me and my development which enabled me to grow both in the exercise of my talents and in the confidence that I had such talents . |
| 28 | It seemed all wrong that I had horizontal loops across the face of the work . |
| 29 | Mum had a habit , whenever she sent me any distance on an errand , of insisting that I had clean bloomers on , ‘ in case yer get knocked down by a 'orse ’ , which was why I was scared of them . |
| 30 | And then I bought another one and then I bought a third one so that I had three combines but there were no other combines on Orkney at all . |