Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would hope , obviously , that I wrote poems that could sometimes speak to the reader 's condition , and it would be too grandiose to say helped him to sort out his own feelings , but at least helped him to get a feeling of recognition and , if the poem is successful , you know , some kind of satisfaction that the feeling has been turned into that permanent form . |
| 2 | It seems to me that I wore glasses before I wore zinc and castor oil cream . |
| 3 | It seems to me that I wore glasses before I wore zinc-and-castor-oil cream . |
| 4 | Now I found that I got results that way . |
| 5 | So funnily enough , the girl that I made friends with when I was a tracer , Penny , erm she came to see me in land army uniform you see , and I said , ’ Right , if I ca n't go in the forces , I 'll join the land army ’ , so I said ’ alright ’ . |
| 6 | He still looked a bit dubious and David said , ‘ One thing you can tell Len , something I forgot , was that I made enquiries today about his parrot and it appears that if he does go to Conway House he 'll be able to take the parrot with him . |
| 7 | Mind you anybody would think that I sold headlights . |
| 8 | ‘ I was always the top broker at any firm I worked for on Wall Street and before that I sold memberships at the Museum of Modern Art . |
| 9 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 10 | And I was fortunate in that I had friends — musical and artistic — who knew so much more about these subjects than I did , and enjoyed sharing their knowledge with me . |
| 11 | I lied about everything : the size , style and location of my home ; the possessions and social pursuits of my parents ; and I even omitted to mention that I had sisters who went to ‘ inferior ’ schools . |
| 12 | I must admit that I had doubts about Swansea 's pack at the beginning of the season . |
| 13 | She resented the fact that I had children of my own and that I was n't as desperate to have them as she was . |
| 14 | That evening I had my first meal since leaving England eighteen hours before ; by the time the pizza , chicken stew and garlicked beans arrived from the kitchen they were cold , but I was so hungry that I had seconds , which amazed Alex . |
| 15 | ‘ Brrr , ’ I said , shaking my head and pretending to myself that I had dogs jowls . |
| 16 | ‘ They knew that I liked girls and if I had a choice , I would rather be talking to the girls than doing my homework . ’ |
| 17 | For example , an electric toothbrush that I bought states categorically that it should be completely discharged at the end of each month and my portable 's manual gives the same advice . |
| 18 | This caused such a burst of indignation from the players that I drew stumps swearing to myself that I 'd never umpire again — and I have n't ! |
| 19 | ‘ I could never go into a home , ’ said Aunt Louise quickly , and with such authority and finality that I dismissed homes from my mind . |
| 20 | It was not so much that she took things from the house — though his racial fear of the poorhouse or famine was deep — but that she left the house at all . |
| 21 | Rincewind hurriedly recalled that a dryad was so linked to her tree that she suffered wounds in sympathy |
| 22 | It was there that she saw women working alongside the men , lifting the heavy-looking mouldings , reeking of hot resin , from the machines , and stacking them on trolleys . |
| 23 | A teacher in the Transylvanian city of Cluj told the Guardian that she saw corpses lying in the streets after troops opened fire on demonstrators . |
| 24 | Did you also know that she had connections with the Dublin and London criminal underworlds ? |
| 25 | Edouard saw that she had bruises on her wrists , and that one side of her face , which she tried to turn away from him , was swollen . |
| 26 | When I arrived at Althorp the housekeeper , Joyce Cole , told me that she had orders banning me from touching anything in the house . |
| 27 | You had to be sure that she had convictions as a prostitute — first loitering and then prostitution and then finer points came up over suspected persons . |
| 28 | It contains and excellent article about Pat Keen and her classes , a splendid photo of Pat herself and the observation — accurate indeed — that she looked years younger than her age . |
| 29 | Celia was Jessica 's unofficial manager , and there were hints and innuendos among show business personnel that she made things difficult and was ‘ hard to get along with ’ in any deals with agencies and broadcasting networks . |
| 30 | Now this Baba Yaga lived in a hut in the forest , and it was said that she ate men up as if they were chickens . |