Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experience had taught them that nothing alienated support within their districts more swiftly than bombs which killed or injured Roman Catholics and that nothing reduced the inflow of money from Irish American sympathisers more drastically . |
| 2 | What we will say , if we keep clearly in mind that everything might have been the same up to the instant when the bar came out , and no bar might have come out is that nothing caused the bar to come out . |
| 3 | But the weird thing about this supposedly ‘ shock admission ’ is that everyone made the most dreadful fuss when she said she intended to ‘ go on and on and on ’ . |
| 4 | He felt that everyone knew the story that we 're talking about , the clichés , and that there was n't anything else there . |
| 5 | He preferred not to think that everyone knew the artist had painted his best-known work from the window overlooking Dzerjhinsky Square . |
| 6 | Jim Bob says that no way would they have done this if it had been their money , and hopes that everyone got the joke . |
| 7 | ‘ Seems that everyone appreciated the joke and took it exactly as we intended them to , even your friend Lewis in the end . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It was only later , ’ observed Ken Howard , ‘ that I realised the symbolism of the crucifixion pose . |
| 9 | It was only much later that I realised the reason for the request and also for the resulting laughter , namely the enjoyment of a broad Somerset accent which had come with me , and traces of which can still be recognised by West Country people nearly seventy years later . |
| 10 | It was not until I met my current hairdresser ( who thankfully is still in the same place three years later ! ) that I realised the importance of a good head of hair , stylishly cut , well-conditioned and subtly coloured . |
| 11 | But it was only when I was in bed that night and unable to sleep that I realised the meaning of my horrified reaction : there would be another time , after I was dead , when I would not exist , when my consciousness would be extinguished . |
| 12 | ‘ It was only later , ’ observed Ken Howard , ‘ that I realised the symbolism of the crucifixion pose . |
| 13 | It was not until I wandered back to the harbour that I realised the wind had freshened . |
| 14 | For example , when Perk disappeared she was wearing a yellow dress and it was only after the second time that I realised the significance of Gail ( Perk 's older sister ) finding a yellow ribbon in Mr Elder 's ( the lodger ) drawer . |
| 15 | It was probably this occasion which prompted Lloyd George to write of Balfour : ‘ I confess that I underrated the passionate attachment to his country which burnt under that calm , indifferent , and apparently frigid exterior ’ ; upon which Balfour 's latest biographer has somewhat severely commented : ‘ By ‘ passionate attachment to his country , ’ Lloyd George , presumably meant Balfour 's backing for him as Prime Minister … ’ |
| 16 | And she thumped the cake down so hard in front of me that I expected the plate to shatter . |
| 17 | It was , especially , upon retiring to bed late in the night of the seventh or eighth day after the placing of the Lady Madeline within the donjon , that I experienced the full power of such feelings . |
| 18 | I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way . |
| 19 | For I have not bothered to tell her that I spotted the blasted thing on our drive back from Bournemouth to London , lurking in a lay-by . |
| 20 | It is not surprise therefore , that I heard the story there and I related it exactly as I remember hearing it . |
| 21 | I think that I heard the Minister of State say that he would not give way . |
| 22 | Now recently a colleague of mine er , that comes from an area where I grew up , and heaven forbid , that I heard the news that Esher has become Liberal , but |
| 23 | The young boy was extremely embarrassed but soon swallowed his pride and climbed back into his canoe while we all fell about with laughter around him and it was then that I heard the bang . |
| 24 | I say in my introduction that I wrote the book partly because I was annoyed that people thought I was only interested in representation . |
| 25 | The fact that I wrote the book may have suggested that I spoke a lot about private things , but that is not really what I mean by privacy in one 's life . |
| 26 | ‘ I told you that I formed the impression that Mrs Yeo was not secure in her husband 's affections , ’ Davidson said , primly . |
| 27 | Regular readers will doubtless remember that I tipped The Silence of the Lambs for Best Picture Oscar way back on June 2 . |
| 28 | Last year , so piqued was I by this , that I plunged the outsize handbag of an excessively bossy senior stewardess from Central Office into a fire-bucket of water on the grounds that it could have contained an incendiary device . |
| 29 | Perceive can still occur in the sense of physical perception , however , as can be seen from : ( 57 ) It was with some trepidation that I perceived the hour approach . |
| 30 | But when she writes or herself , her tone is almost girlish : ‘ The romantic world seems to have supposed that I kissed the sculptor last week . |