Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [vb past] that there " in BNC.
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| 1 | Douglas was annoyed at this arrival of Leslie 's contingent but changed his tune suddenly when he heard that there was still no sign of the enemy encampment being alarmed . |
| 2 | It was just that she knew that there was something seriously wrong with her — something far more dramatic than a grumbling appendix or the normal after-effects of an operation . |
| 3 | It was n't until years later that I discovered that there are no sins of the father , that it was all one great big con trick . |
| 4 | Instead of teleology , however , Epicurus advocated the existence of chance and free will , partly because , like Aristotle , he argued that you can not blame or punish a man for something he can not help doing , but also because he believed that there is a kind of spontaneity in men ( and possibly in animals ) that is manifested in our apparent freedom , to originate actions . |
| 5 | The searchlight was switched out and I saw that there was a wall of barbed wire running parallel with the road on one side . |
| 6 | Well if I thought that there were areas of non-ferrous well … |
| 7 | Even before she registered that there was no child , she saw his anger . |
| 8 | His dry sense of humour still had the capacity to make her lips twitch in amusement , even as she recognised that there was nothing remotely amusing about the way she felt about him . |
| 9 | I asked my granny why and she said that there had been what we now call a newsflash on the wireless saying the King had died . |
| 10 | As I walked out to the front of Wolverhampton station I did wonder a little when I noticed that there was a regular service train on the monitor , due to leave at 1822 . |
| 11 | Bullinger stayed with me , and asked me quietly whether I thought that there was any hope for her … |