Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] that [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Hurricanes were to land at Hal Far aerodrome and I circled that aerodrome until I had seen them all land safely . |
2 | I thought the flysheet looked too short and I worried that rain would get into the inner . |
3 | really great it was , you know I did n't really think it would turn out as big as it has done you know , but it 's turned out beautiful has n't it really , yeah we was , I was thrilled especially when they built the new houses round the front we used to go and keep looking at them , little did I think I would get one , and the housing officer came one day and he said would you like one of the new ones , I said I would and it was four bedroom but we got , you see we 've got the other bedroom over my daughter-in-law 's , so me and hubby used to have the en right down a long passage and the bedroom was over like the sit you 've got a bedroom over the sitting room like see and she erm , we used to have so the children did n't make a noise to disturb her so my hubby and I had that room , yeah , it was quite nice it was , nice house , I erm , you know , enjoyed being there , bringing up the family , you want plenty of room you 've got a big family do n't you really ? |
4 | Erm , George and I had that class shared between us , he took them for an hour a week and I did and i if there is a class that any of us had ever taken that would be unlikely to be able to write something meaningful of this kind |
5 | I did make the point that Mr Maxwell 's company wants co-operation on the eastern edge of the City , vis-á-vis their football stadium , and we ought to have some co-operation on the western edge of the City where all these houses are boarded up and empty , bought at double the market value , and I made that point publicly . |
6 | And I thought that sewing machine is really going to get out to work . |
7 | They spoke of him as ‘ Syl 's father ’ and I thought that death , like marriage , depersonalised people . |
8 | I simply wish to point out that if it is supposed that Karen Parsons and I embarked that afternoon with the intention of drowning her husband , why did we wait till we had reached a point where our criminal acts were overlooked by at least fifteen witnesses ? |
9 | J. and I spent that Christmas at our separate homes , but were back on camp for the New Year celebrations , the first new year of peacetime for seven years , and as 1945 drew to a close most of us were beginning to look tentatively ahead to the future when we would no longer be bound by the rules and regulations which had fenced us in for so long , and to wonder where we would all be in another twelve months . |
10 | Oh I , I said that to you at the time Robert , I mean I 'll be honest and I saw that document and I nearly died and it 's the way they say it too |
11 | and I caused that kingdom to tremble . |
12 | They met , he insists , soon after , not before , he began presenting Dance Energy — ‘ I got talking to her and I liked that woman ’ — and his admiration for her today is obvious . |
13 | And I used that panic to my benefit . |
14 | It was a great learning experience and I needed that time , but I was n't moving in leaps and bounds . |
15 | Not often the same policeman , and I gained that experience when I found the way that they were examining property , the way they attended to accidents and street disturbances and they were pretty tough customers and I learnt a lot . |
16 | and I started that day with this cold |
17 | And I forgot that plastic card did n't I ? |
18 | First and foremost , I hope they have been interesting — more than that , fascinating — for if language analysis fails to fascinate us , something is seriously rotten in the state of Denmark — and I learned that lesson from a Dane , Otto Jespersen , whose papers on language never failed to fascinate . |
19 | As Windows sorts out the ( hardware ) men from the boys , there 's a large section of the book dedicated to exploiting your disc drives , keyboards , mice and pointing devices , modems , networks , printers and video boards and monitors and I found that section particularly impressive . |
20 | And you had that car about two years did n't you ? |
21 | Now if you knew which numbers were selected less frequently than others , and you kept that information to yourself and you bet on those numbers that were selected less frequently , then unless there 's any special reason why those numbers should produce fewer score draws than other numbers , you 're giving yourself an advantage because on the weeks in which those numbers produce score draws there are fewer people who 'll have them down as their numbers , and so there 's more money around for those few people who have them down , including you , and so if you win , then you 'd expect to win more money . |
22 | But it was a very responsible job because if you got an oven for your stuff and you burnt that boy there 's a lot of waste . |
23 | Erm one , one of the statements that you did come out with when you , when you were saying about erm why you were there , you said about to make sure that your policy is performing how you wish it to which is as good a one as I did when I said you 're obviously satisfied with , with your Friends Provident contract cos we 're brilliant erm Martin asked the question about why has the , why has the bonus gone down and , and you overcame that objection er which was good and he , he was , he was satisfied with that . |
24 | Perhaps so , and you created that reality . |
25 | ‘ A skivvy ? ’ said her papa , almost disbelieving , and she saw that Mama felt the same . |
26 | And she had that paint did n't she ? |
27 | She slept lightly now , in any case , and she reflected that dawn was becoming one of her better known times of the day . |
28 | hit the front of the car and she went that way , and she finished up in the hedge |
29 | You know who the first person who knocked on Mrs. Thatcher 's door in the House of Commons at the start of the Falklands War , or when it was being planned , it was Harold Macmillan , offering any advice , you know , if she could use his advice , and the one bit of advice he gave her was appoint a small War Cabinet to deal with it , and she took that advice . |
30 | well one of the girls said to me who sort of tagged on to us , she was on her own , er she said er what was the highlight of the holiday and she said that trip down the Seine |