Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb past] that [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The last time that I heard that argument so brazenly presented was by Mr. Neville Chamberlain 's spokesman before the war . |
2 | The L N E R and L M S. And er I could see then that I knew that superintendent in the private days of the railways . |
3 | Oh I did n't notice that I saw that thing in the car but I did n't notice a bracket . |
4 | you know the big spread that I saw that time |
5 | Then that I got that book back when I became a full time official it was still in the still in the office . |
6 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
7 | I confess that I felt that way at the time : the track was , despite the massive pile-up , clear . |
8 | I used to tell myself that it was because I wanted so much to believe it that I felt that way . |
9 | It must have been for myself as much as any other that I issued that warning : It might be all too easy to take a wrong path ! |
10 | ‘ Look , ’ he said , deciding , for the moment , to keep a safe distance between them , ‘ I know you think I nicked them keys , that I did that kiosk and Madge 's house — ‘ |
11 | I 'm sorry I told ya and not only that I bought that camera the other week did n't I ? |
12 | I was hoping they would find my curling stone , the one that I lost that night that Stewart Candless 's Metalurjic or whatever it was went into the loch . |
13 | I was n't aware that I gave that impression . |
14 | And she was so hooked in to him that she sensed that changing of mood almost immediately , and the façade split open a little wider . |
15 | It is possible to approximate the time that she left that job . |
16 | If you paid by cheque or credit card , again you would have some evidence that you spent that money . |
17 | what we 'll say to you is that you got that parcel on Tuesday |
18 | ‘ I knew from the very start that you sent that poison pen letter , Eleanor . |
19 | It means accepting , as one grieving woman put it , ‘ that there was something alive in you , and that you ended that process ’ . |
20 | ‘ But I 'm surprised that you remembered that detail . ’ |
21 | ( Express your feelings at the time , then accept that you created that reality . ) |
22 | You should n't have even given a sign all that you recognized that man . |
23 | and you know what it was n't one of his objections at all , you know the video that we saw that morning |
24 | We 've got attendance I was going to suggest that we made that attendance stroke punctuality |
25 | And it was on that basis that we made that statement there . |
26 | Indeed , I was especially delighted that we won that contract for this country . |
27 | Are you trying to make out that we started that shooting ? ’ |
28 | Erm , can I say that it 's only last year that we organised that video for secured car parks , and employed a blooming outside presenter to do it , and that cost us twelve thousand quid , and that were at Derby and they made an excellent bloody video of it did n't they ? |
29 | We should be trying to enhance cooperative arrangements of referral and support between health and social work departments and private homes , and Mike O'Reilly did n't actually say that they had that problem but he said that their clients had been referred by GPs or by the psychogeriatric service . |
30 | You may remember a few months before Christmas , I think , that the five District Councils in Oxford County joined together to say that they felt that Government housing policy was failing to deal with the growing housing crisis in Oxfordshire . |