Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 2 | It was perhaps because of this , and because I tried to foster the whole idea of positive thinking , that I began to concentrate more and more on visualization . |
| 3 | ‘ It was for you that I had to leave that hotel suite and not return until daylight . ’ |
| 4 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
| 5 | Something of the casual innocence of the picture may be lost when I tell you that I had to hunt this particular combination of light for two days before obtaining the shot I wanted ! |
| 6 | When I reached Ostend at midday on 16th there was no ticket but only a message to the effect that I had to buy another one . |
| 7 | The amounts of exercise I did meant that I had to eat more than my father ! |
| 8 | I felt that I had to make some sort of social effort so I swung my legs off the bed and sat sheepishly on the edge . |
| 9 | It was ironic in retrospect that I had to travel half way round the globe to get to know working class men from my own back yard . |
| 10 | I had two , and then Gabriel was an accident , and somehow the thought that he was an accident was so insulting to me that I had to have some more , to prove that he was n't . |
| 11 | ‘ It was something that I had to experience all by myself . ’ |
| 12 | So , as my array of new brushes was getting rather low , it was with interest and eagerness that I accepted to test some new brushes developed and manufactured by Pro Arte . |
| 13 | We had no Balls as such in those days , we would have a dance , and when I was entertaining any of my theatrical friends from the West End it was always Tommy that I selected to do some special entertaining — well within the reach of the station commander 's entertaining fund . |
| 14 | When I was chided by someone for seeming oblivious of ‘ the magnitude of the accounting operation ’ I said that it was because of my consciousness of the magnitude of all other operations that I dared to make these demands of Mr Whalley , who perfectly understands in any case . |
| 15 | It was then that I decided to tell each woman in my own time , taking each one in turn — I could n't tell them all at once . |
| 16 | But it was n't until I read the piece in the paper last week that I decided to have another try . ’ |
| 17 | I decided that I needed to get some support , to find someone who could , let us say , take charge of me and give me advice . |
| 18 | The next facet of my approach was that I wanted to see more flexibility in the hands of local family health services authorities over the application of funds and the use of the substantial sums of money that are available to them for the development of primary health care . |
| 19 | Suddenly I realised that there were all sorts of things that I wanted to do that I had n't done . |
| 20 | One of the reasons I forgot about Ohio was that I wanted to forget that unhappy period of my life . |
| 21 | Even so , most of it was so pointedly on target that she began to leave some of her cynicism aside . |
| 22 | JANE O'NEILL WITNESSED A SERIOUS ACCIDENT , AND WAS SO SHOCKED THAT SHE HAD TO TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OFF WORK . |
| 23 | But she made up her mind , did n't she , that she had to publish this book under a man 's name ? |
| 24 | It was hard that she had to choose such an arrogant , disdainful man to fall in love with . |
| 25 | She told Annie that she had to do some shopping , then doubled back and waited . |
| 26 | ‘ If the creditor takes adequate steps to inform her and reasonably supposes that she has an adequate comprehension of the obligations she is undertaking and an understanding of the effect of the transaction , the fact that she failed to grasp some material part of the document , or , indeed , the significance of what she was doing , can not , I think , in itself give her an equity to set aside , notwithstanding that at an earlier stage the creditor relied upon her husband to obtain her consent to enter into the obligation of surety . |
| 27 | The second is that she left to escape all the criticism that might have ensued if she stayed behind . |
| 28 | On her way home she remembers that she forgot to buy any pet food so she returns to the shop to buy some . |
| 29 | Initially , many believed that their retention would only be temporary ; they failed to understand , however , that Elizabeth herself saw the 1559 settlement as final , and that she intended to resist all pressure from her councillors , divines , and MPs to purify or reform these ceremonials . |
| 30 | I heard later that the Queen was so angry that she refused to enter any of the damaged rooms ever again , and promised to take her revenge on me . |