Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's late , and about time that I went to bed . |
| 2 | 'After that I went to sleep . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I started off smoking hash ; from that I went to acid , LSD , speed , things like that . |
| 6 | I recovered quickly , I 'm glad to say , but I could n't leave because they insisted that I stayed to lunch . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | On the last occasion that I spoke to Lady More , our President , she gave me permission to reprint this extract from the book . |
| 9 | We know that she came to grief . |
| 10 | We were told that she set to work ‘ editing ’ the crazed philosopher 's work to make it more Nazi , and that Elisabeth had a strong and malign influence on the growth of National Socialism . |
| 11 | Celia Fiennes , riding through the same region towards the end of that century , found the Border dwellings ‘ worse than booths at a fair ’ , and so smelly that she preferred to lunch with her horses in the stable . |
| 12 | Erm you were telling me about religion about the fact that you went to church . |
| 13 | No it was during the conversation he er he said that I hear that you went to flat and I said yes and he said er well you just missed me , I 'd been there a couple of days before . |
| 14 | At Kyalami Ranch , he 'd have a blade of grass in his mouth like a kid on a picnic , he 'd never think of holding court or taking himself so seriously ( as later champions did ) that you wanted to needle him . |
| 15 | On the other hand she was never hard on us and never unsympathetic ; she looked after us , made sure we were properly fed and clothed , that we went to bed at a reasonable time — all that sort of thing . ’ |
| 16 | You know nothing of me , only that we went to bed together for a while . |
| 17 | Eventually , they got so noisy that we reverted to weekday openings . |
| 18 | In the event the justices had not completed their task by 12 noon and it was at 12.45 p.m. that they returned to court to state their reasons . |
| 19 | All 27,000 dismissed and striking workers would be permitted to return to employment in the same job and at the same grade and wage as at the beginning of the strike , provided that they returned to work in the period from Jan. 31 to Feb. 6 . |
| 20 | The feelings of the young hon. Member for Gedling ( Mr. Mitchell ) about the way in which local government has broken up were expressed subjectively and I suspect that he will not agree with me when I say that they seemed to date from about 1979 — and we know what happened in 1979 when the hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was first elected . |
| 21 | That there was a that they were gon na be trailing behind the peasant movement and that how that they had to sort of get a hold over all the all the changes that were happening in the country . |
| 22 | ‘ The delays involved were altogether unacceptable in my view and I had no doubt that they amounted to maladministration . ’ |
| 23 | — The question of job swaps was not clear in Tim 's paper — for example for Area Secretaries it meant that they wanted to job swap they could do so by moving region |
| 24 | Judge Michael Coombe said he had taken into account that they turned to crime because of the slump . |
| 25 | The man took a couple of steps back as they headed for him ; but then they stopped , as if they 'd sensed his fury and found it to be a wall that they hesitated to scale . |
| 26 | The drizzle was so fine that it amounted to fog and he had to drive slowly . |
| 27 | To uncouple , the tug drew away and the leg was so balanced that it dropped to earth by gravity : if this leg was , through any reason tight , and it failed to function , the trailer fell to the ground , and so cast its load . |
| 28 | Having outlined the snowballing process itself , the following sections will present the findings concerning the two principal tasks that it sought to accomplish-measuring the size of the hidden heroin sector and identifying variations between the profiles of known and unknown users . |
| 29 | But both Woodruffe and Hodson denied strongly that the Association was in any sense a secret society , that it sought to discipline members in breach of rules , to dictate terms to shipowners or to enforce a closed shop . |
| 30 | It is true that liberalism could not back a jacquerie and that it preferred to paternalism the teaching of political economy in schools . |