Example sentences of "that it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now my intimations of the complicity between The Fat Controller and my mother grew into the utter certainty that it extended even into these murky areas . |
| 2 | The envoys — I do not know by what trickery they were deceived [ here Nithard bursts out into the first person ] — thus increased Lothar 's share of the regnum so that it extended as far as the Charbonnière . " |
| 3 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 4 | He was sure it had been there every night since , and Mrs Masters turned out to be equally confident that it had also been there during the day . |
| 5 | On Sept. 24 the Deputy Prime Minister , Tariq Aziz , justified the detention of the team , saying that it had wrongfully seized personnel records . |
| 6 | It was built so very near the sea that it had narrowly escaped being carried away in high tides , and doubtless would have been altogether afloat but for its having a foundation of some two feet and a half of stone . |
| 7 | The idea that Stamford was the centre of Mercian government was invented by William Stukeley in the 1730s from his belief that Alchfrith had held his court here and that it had formerly been Hengist 's town . |
| 8 | The third was heading for Isengard , to alarm Pippin on its way with the thought that it had somehow been despatched for him ( 11 , 204 ) . |
| 9 | The parish priest of Brackenstown , Swords , County Dublin , distributed a newsletter at all masses on Ascension Thursday , 22 May — though before he had read Archbishop MacNamara 's guidelines on how to conduct the campaign — claiming that no-fault divorce was first introduced by Nazi Germany and that it had since wreaked ‘ more havoc on the Allied countries than any German army or air force ever did ’ ( Irish Times , 28 June 1986 ) . |
| 10 | Jenjin told Rostov that Burun had broken Nogai 's wrist during an argument five days earlier , and that it had just been suggested that if his plan went ahead he might get the other one broken as well . |
| 11 | He put the fleeting temptation aside , surprised that it had even occurred to him . |
| 12 | Although he was driven away by the defenders of the city of St Stephen 's with derisive shouts of " We do not want this man to reign over us " , he was able to capture the castle of Aixe , which was so lightly garrisoned that it had clearly been abandoned by Henry and Richard . |
| 13 | Ronni shot her response at him like a reflex action , a little guiltily aware that it had rather less to do with the truth and rather more to do with her sudden need for a shield . |
| 14 | The same was not true of the broader European Economic Community , which despite its wider brief demonstrated that it had both strength and flexibility . |
| 15 | When she came to pay for the bill , she found that it had already been paid . |
| 16 | I pointed out that it had already been a month , and there was no record of me on the Chicago computer . |
| 17 | The AWB claimed in 1990 that it had already trained 12,000 men . |
| 18 | This bird , born around 1762 , lived in such comfortable circumstances that it had already reared eight broods when , to the consternation of its noble owner , it suddenly developed the plumage and spurs of a male and thereafter refused to lay another egg . |
| 19 | The CHC went on to point out that it had already carried out its own feasibility study on the potential for a psychiatric hospital closure in Redbridge and Waltham Forest . |
| 20 | UNITA , which had unilaterally downgraded the status of its delegation shortly before the talks , further claimed that it had already made concessions including the recognition of the ruling MPLA as a political party , and of President dos Santos as head of state . |
| 21 | The arguments centred on scheduling , with Serbia and Montenegro insisting that referendums should take place in each republic at the same time and with the same questions , Croatia announcing that it had already scheduled its referendum for May 19 , Macedonia asking for a postponement of the deadline to mid-June , and Bosnia-Hercegovina suggesting that the referendum should take place in two stages . |
| 22 | But why could n't he rid himself of the eerie sensation that it had already happened , that everyone knew except him , that he was being deliberately kept in the dark ? |
| 23 | So we put a , as a rider on , that it had already passed the rider it says there , but we found it unacceptable at P A G. |
| 24 | A report by COSLA officials recalled that it had already raised the issue of unfair profit-making from second right-to-buy purchases under housing defects legislation , but ministers had refused to agree to make any changes . |
| 25 | He said that it had already led to the curtailment of five drilling contracts with thousands of potential job losses . |
| 26 | Gandhi 's implicit suggestion here is that it had yet to support non-violence for , as he says , bishops still felt able to support slaughter in the name of Christianity . |
| 27 | M-19 was participating in the elections despite the fact that it had yet to sign a final peace agreement with the government of President Virgilio Barco . |
| 28 | Their counsel , John Mitchell , QC , said that it had yet to be decided whether an appeal would be pursued and it was unclear whether that could be arranged before the meeting at Brockville tonight . |
| 29 | The Swiss company Acher Partners admitted its involvement , but claimed that it had simply arranged the contract on behalf of Progresso of Italy , while the latter denied any involvement in illegal activities . |
| 30 | In the end , to draw matters to an unhappy conclusion they all agreed that it had probably been a bin liner . |