Example sentences of "that [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronni kept her gaze fixed seawards as her stomach leapt inside her , remembering that dance they 'd shared together . |
| 2 | He went to her , and told her how much he loved her , and that she was not to heed him ; it was the headaches that made him distracted ; that day he had been almost blind ; Mr Lamprey had suggested spectacles , and perhaps now he could afford them . |
| 3 | Clare had such a sense of adventure — and it was this love of an active life that made what happened doubly hard to bear . |
| 4 | Any other things that made it made it difficult for you to read ? |
| 5 | In the 1920s America had witnessed some of the problems of the modern world that was emerging after the First World War ; the confusions and uncertainties that revealed themselves became more acute as prosperity suddenly came to an end in 1929 . |
| 6 | The papal letter which he was carrying to the king had been superseded by another , which spoke more mildly and suggested that Anselm himself had been a mischief-maker , and that a compromise agreement could be reached with good will on both sides . |
| 7 | You know that land I bought off the Ministry of Defence ? |
| 8 | It were me that realized we 'd fetched wrong ones , not Des . |
| 9 | a ) Heres that book you asked me to bring ( The fact that you asked me to bring it is not new. ) b ) Ive got to take the dog for a walk ( ‘ For a walk ’ is by far the most probable thing to follow ‘ I 've got to take the dog ’ ; if the sentence ended with ‘ to the vet ’ the tonic syllable would probably be ‘ vet ’ . ) |
| 10 | It 's records like this that make me pissed off with political thrashcore . |
| 11 | An occasional member of the fugitive genteel stuck it grimly out until death ; once Clara was accosted by an old lady , battered and ragged and bent , who said as she walked along , and in accents of refined madness , that once the people that lived there had held their heads up high . |
| 12 | The sight that met them brought everything back with a rush . |
| 13 | Colchester was an engineering base , there 's no doubt about that , there was David Paxmans , you must all about , the great big diesel firm , they did some lovely er diesel engines for the high speed trains which , of course , obviously been superseded by electrics , they used to employ three thousand people and when I started in college we did n't enrol their apprentices on the college site , we went to Paxmans and we enroled one hundred apprentices every year on a five year course , that mean they had a five hundred apprentices in a pool , did n't they , just like that ! |
| 14 | Nothing moved , but the world tilted , and she looked down into eyes that registered he had felt it too . |
| 15 | Every vehicle that passed she scanned , every passer-by she scrutinised . |
| 16 | With each day that passed she became more deeply involved and more enthusiastic about what she was doing . |
| 17 | With every day that passed he became ever more despairing and hopeless as messengers brought him reports of the army 's casualties . |
| 18 | THE KITCHEN was a large stone-floored room whose low ceiling seemed to trap the heat of the stove and hold cooking smells long after the meal that created them had been forgotten . |
| 19 | The corpse is drawn suspended above the bier , the cloth that covers it suspended above again , and individual figures are similarly itemised . |
| 20 | See it 's the war that changed everything did n't it . |
| 21 | When you saw that happening you realised you had to go into other things . |
| 22 | It reminds me a bit of , d' ya remember that place we stayed in Brussels ? |
| 23 | Time and again , it appears that Place himself wrote in afterthoughts or amended text , often many years after first writing it . |
| 24 | So if you let me take a copy , I 'll give that lease you signed to my company solicitor and get him to go through it with a magnifying glass . |
| 25 | She had forgotten that slip she had made ; she might have known that he would pick her up on it sooner or later . |
| 26 | And I 'll tell you something more : it would have been hidden up , as many another 's been , an' she would have been dumped somewhere , or found in the canal , but one of the lasses that found her had a screaming fit and ran out into the street , went barmy , they said , yelling , ‘ She 's hung herself ! |
| 27 | Well the people that done it did n't get caught but the corridor on which it happened was fined for all the equipment . |
| 28 | Unable to admit that meeting him had been the catalyst , Luce said , ‘ I realised we were totally unsuited . |
| 29 | About twenty years after the sack of Aurae Phiala , Honorius finally issued an edict that recognised what had been true for nearly a century . |
| 30 | Undoubtedly Cranmer will be best remembered for his part in Prince Obolensky 's historic try against the 1936 All Blacks at Twickenham : ‘ I 'll never forget that break which started from a line-out . |