Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd only gone to that debate because my wife was a steward . ’ |
| 2 | I would n't have been the first guy he 'd ever seen at that hour . |
| 3 | She was still feeling somewhat shaken an hour later — she was going to Prague — and with Ven ! — when suddenly she realised that she 'd barely moved since that phone call . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've got to hand it to you , Angel , I 'd never thought of that technique , ’ said Bunny with genuine admiration . |
| 5 | He was so big and strong that I always felt hopelessly trapped in that chair with his bulk over me and the wheel grinding and the pedal thumping . |
| 6 | The men who had marched north with Duncan to dispose of his dangerous half-brother at Tarbatness had mostly died in that battle . |
| 7 | It was an excitement that matched my own , for I had never sailed the South Seas and I had long dreamed of that scatter of tiny , magically named islands strewn across one third of a globe . |
| 8 | But the system of fixed exchange rates established after the war and based on the dollar had already disintegrated by that time . |
| 9 | Dunlop appeared to be catching Moodie and he had already put in that record lap of 115.62mph on lap three , but Moodie always had matters well in hand . |
| 10 | She had not gone through that period of nicking things out of her mother 's handbag , her father 's pockets , the way some small children did . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) … the court shall , on such an application , make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if the company had not entered into that transaction . ’ |
| 12 | ( 2 ) The court shall , on such an application , make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if that individual had not entered into that transaction . ’ |
| 13 | An elderly man named John Thomas , who was still a member of the Association of Foremen Lightermen but who had not worked in that capacity for some two years and who was now a watchman , was approached to join Harry Gosling 's Amalgamated Society of Watermen , Lightermen and Watchmen of the River Thames . |
| 14 | For example in the case of the airline employees the revenue had sought to tax concessionary travel on the average cost basis but their claim had failed before the commissioners and they had not persisted in that claim . |
| 15 | Yet I had not thought of that banner for years . |
| 16 | And the Wolverines had likewise been busy — though they had not thought of that rune trick … |
| 17 | The youths , being Moslems , were not having this from any woman , even if she were a great lady , and things would have gone ill for Zeinab if Owen had not arrived at that moment , on his way to her flat . |
| 18 | Maggie had just stepped onto that floor when there was a sudden miaow ! |
| 19 | Foucard had once gone to that door , thrown it wide , given the room an all-embracing glance , satisfied his curiosity . |
| 20 | We talked about the Dublin Review , where my Basic English article had been published , and referred to a characteristically splenetic article by Montgomery Belgion which had also appeared in that journal . |
| 21 | And yet this particular quarrel , now that it was under rigorous scrutiny , had n't arisen over that matter at all , but over something else entirely , the question of where Nenna could possibly have put his squash racquets while he was away . |
| 22 | If she had n't gone into that room , heard that doctor talking … |
| 23 | Yet most of the actors he 'd assembled had n't worked in that way before . |
| 24 | It had been five hours since he 'd got home , and he had n't slept in that time . |
| 25 | So that 's purely , I mean and there 's no point in picking you up on that because you just had n't got to that point . |
| 26 | But she had n't dwelt on that thought . |
| 27 | Paul had n't thought about that side of things . |
| 28 | There was also the young lady wearing the ‘ World City Map of Hong Kong ’ sandwich board who was heard to sigh , as she sallied forth from the loo , that she had n't thought of that problem when she took the job . |
| 29 | If he had n't died of that heart attack , he 'd have been a mental wreck . ’ |
| 30 | He was surprised to hear his voice saying that , he had n't known until that moment . |