Example sentences of "that [noun sg] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Stunned by a Thameside painting by Whistler , it was only later that Strayhorn discovered it was actually a view of Battersea Bridge that he 'd admired !
2 The thought of all that money calmed them down , and they subsided .
3 All that she could identify as remaining of herself was the Jew ; she would never leave unpaid or transfer her spiritual account , if for no other reason than that payment safeguarded what little survived of her identity .
4 I did n't buy that jumper did I , Mikila , cos it 's not very
5 That bit made me think even then .
6 That admission made her smile to herself .
7 Although he could not read or write , Burke learnt fast , but it was not until he was 18 , nearly 19 , that Parrish gave him his first fight .
8 That upbringing served him well for Robert Redford 's Thirties drama The River Runs Through It , adapted from a novel by Norman MacLean about family conflict and fly fishing .
9 The experience in Gentle Jack and the speech that caused all the problems in that play stood him in good stead .
10 ‘ Are yer sure it 's what that geezer said it was ? ’
11 I do n't frighten easy , but that geezer frightened me .
12 That 's all that Christian offered me when I went up there to lay out that poor young wife of his .
13 After an hour or so of that Malm changed his tack and wanted to know whom Stephen had met on that morning walk , everything he had seen .
14 The basis of the control was that the courts have held that , when Parliament gives a public body statutory authority to act , it can be implied that Parliament intended it to act in a particular way ; in good faith , in a reasonable manner , in accordance with the requirements of natural justice .
15 If we ask where that power comes from , the answer is broadly that Parliament claimed it and the courts recognised it .
16 That bike took me all over the place .
17 When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking .
18 Delahunty 's reports from the burning stand that afternoon won him worldwide acclaim and a number of top international radio and journalistic awards .
19 On the first morning we studied module one , and that afternoon did our first confined water dive in Gallanach Port , just a five minute drive from the school .
20 That mum said she cu definitely cut it off .
21 But Rosemarie felt so strongly that mum suggested she write to director Steven Spielberg … and to her surprise she received a reply from his scientific adviser Don Lessem in Massachusetts .
22 That course changed my life .
23 Of Burke 's politics Johnson believed , as he did of any political opponent , that honesty deserted him when embroiled politically , only to return when engaged conversationally or intellectually .
24 However , its location and release of new energies within a literary text are based on discoveries of how that text negotiated its own culture .
25 He was a good footballer , who would have made the top in that field had he so wished .
26 He was running short of petrol and that route offered him the chance to capture replenishments along the way .
27 That coincidence pleased him .
28 Here , some teachers found themselves , often for the first time in their careers , with the opportunity to engage in depth with a small number of individuals , yet were not always able fully to exploit the possibilities because sustained questioning and discussion at that level required them to have a clear framework of the kinds of question they wished to promote and a grasp of the ways a sequence of such questions related to the wider map of the curriculum area in which a particular learning task was located .
29 This artistic contest dominated throughout Europe , especially in France and Germany , but it was in Italy that Romanticism found its closest identification with resurgent nationalism , in this case the Risorgimento .
30 that experience changed him in every way .
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