Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] that [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meantime , I really enjoyed that winter of 1945/6 , in spite of the disgusting weather . |
| 2 | ‘ I kinda knew it was gon na happen sooner or later , and I really wanted that sense of responsibility , the discipline of it . |
| 3 | When I worked as a primary school teacher I sometimes retrieved that feeling with a particular clarity , walking between the tables on the hard floor , all the little looms working but needing my constant adjustment . |
| 4 | I was enjoying Oxford so much that I sometimes forgot that moment in Clare 's bedroom when I made my decision about my future vocation . |
| 5 | I knew that we could get an immunity , normally by going to the doctor and having a vaccination or inoculation , but I never knew that right inside every one of us there was a built-in fire brigade , a whole troupe of Red Adair troubleshooters just waiting to be called upon to do their stuff . |
| 6 | Of child bride Mandy Smith he said : ‘ I never saw that girl after the wedding . |
| 7 | I never bought that stuff about her ever-expanding conscience and I certainly never bought any of her beauty products . |
| 8 | You only had that sample of five , Sin Iguales . |
| 9 | Almost inevitably , questions about Dermot sent her into a rage — and she usually soothed that rage in a bottle . |
| 10 | A new girl asks , ‘ You still got that man in there ? ’ |
| 11 | So the chances were there for United rather than Portsmouth erm but you always had that feeling in the last quarter of an hour , is n't that funny , you 've talked to Ken Vasey and we 've talked to Andy Melville , and I think they both agreed that erm Portsmouth might just come through and snatch three points . |
| 12 | Though when she might have let him know that she was quite able to make her own decisions , thank you very much , she remembered — she still wanted that interview with him . |
| 13 | She probably lived that sort of life herself , Stephen thought . |
| 14 | Irritably — she really wanted that cup of tea ; she was growing as bad as the British — McAllister turned off the gas ring , blew out the match , and walked to the front door , grumbling to herself , Hold your horses , I 'm coming , I 'm coming , when another urgent series of knocks sounded . |
| 15 | She often did that sort of thing these days — repulsing him just when she seemed to be warming again . |
| 16 | When she later read ( at Clare 's instigation ) the Pankhursts ' story , with the exhortation to suffragettes to be ‘ an iron fist in a velvet glove ’ , she immediately linked that image with the symbol of ‘ fist-in-a-bag ’ . |
| 17 | You never took that form to school . |
| 18 | Can you tell me where you actually got that information from ? |
| 19 | She somebody has fenced it off , she says I could see them far enough , she said , we always had that bit for our camp and it was further down the glen . |
| 20 | Apart from the fact that I 'd put my make-up on badly in my haste , I looked fairly normal — a bit flushed , maybe , and my eyes seemed unusually bright , but perhaps they only looked that way to me . |
| 21 | They also said that reform of the security and defence departments , as demanded by Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Andrei Kozyrev , would duplicate the suggestions of US intelligence services . |
| 22 | They probably stayed that night at Watchet , and there , tradition records , the first lines of ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ were committed to writing at the Bell Inn , within sight of the ships in Watchet 's decaying harbour . |
| 23 | ‘ He so wanted that job as a mime artiste . |
| 24 | He also had a stab at writing for a living , becoming a reporter on the Bury Times , but he soon lost that job after trying to inject some of his flowery prose into a report on the funeral of a civic dignitary . |
| 25 | He still held himself with the easy confidence she remembered , his dark head carried at an unconsciously arrogant angle , and he still had that polish to him , the patina of success . |
| 26 | A long-standing sufferer of this terrible condition , thought to be caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain , he once said that living in the country helped control it . |
| 27 | It also accepted that part of AEA would need to remain in the public sector . |
| 28 | Although it sought to make schools accessible , it also held that attendance at them should be voluntary , that pupils should pay for the instruction they received , that public education should be developed gradually rather than immediately , and that , although schools would still be run by different agencies , societies and private individuals , they should teach the same things and be managed identically . |
| 29 | But he also accepted that economics in turn influenced culture ; it was the version of Marxism which saw culture as a mere ‘ reflection ’ of the economic base that Weber was concerned to refute . |
| 30 | He also ordered that information from the official news agency PAP should be double-checked before being broadcast . |