Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [art] " 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 | In the Court of Appeal , Lord Denning MR decided in favour of Cheall , invoking the European Convention on Human Rights , which declared that everyone had a right to join a trade union , which proposition Lord Denning identified with the common law . |
| 5 | So , if we are concerned with what constitutes a just allocation of resources , my prescription , at the very least , would call for policies aimed at ensuring , as far as possible , that everyone had an equal opportunity to enjoy an equal share of the total net welfare of society . |
| 6 | He felt that everyone knew the story that we 're talking about , the clichés , and that there was n't anything else there . |
| 7 | He preferred not to think that everyone knew the artist had painted his best-known work from the window overlooking Dzerjhinsky Square . |
| 8 | Jim Bob says that no way would they have done this if it had been their money , and hopes that everyone got the joke . |
| 9 | ‘ Seems that everyone appreciated the joke and took it exactly as we intended them to , even your friend Lewis in the end . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It was only later , ’ observed Ken Howard , ‘ that I realised the symbolism of the crucifixion pose . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ It was only later , ’ observed Ken Howard , ‘ that I realised the symbolism of the crucifixion pose . |
| 15 | It was not until I wandered back to the harbour that I realised the wind had freshened . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 … ’ |
| 18 | I would begin Spanish now just to reassure myself that I expected a future in which I could pick up past threads . |
| 19 | And she thumped the cake down so hard in front of me that I expected the plate to shatter . |
| 20 | Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night . |
| 21 | It was then that I experienced a side of Max that I had not known before : he was most caring and attentive , almost maternal , getting doctors and nurses , staying with me and looking after me in every way . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I know that I laughed a lot , and that Will said it was a stupid play , with not a word of poetry in it . |
| 25 | ‘ Over the years too the story has grown and at least one fan seems to recall that I potted every ball in the final frame one-handed ! ’ |
| 26 | But it was not until three mornings later that I spotted a horse and cart arrive . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was around that time that I spotted an advertisement for CHE ( Campaign for Homosexual Equality ) in the personal column of the Sunday Times . |
| 29 | I shouted again , and again I imagined that I heard an answer . |
| 30 | It is not surprise therefore , that I heard the story there and I related it exactly as I remember hearing it . |