Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 2 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |
| 3 | I could feel him right outside , but it bothered me that I had n't done anything . |
| 4 | I told her what she expected to hear — that I had not done anything much . |
| 5 | No , I think that I had better take one from the Scottish National party . |
| 6 | I felt that I had never seen anyone so old . |
| 7 | I said that I had never heard anything more extraordinary . |
| 8 | Anybody that could read Dispatches and believe that I did n't suffer anything , I do n't know what they 're reading . |
| 9 | No he said , I ah that was the one immature thing that I did n't want anyone to say |
| 10 | ‘ I swear to you that I did n't know anything about it … neither can my sister know , or she would n't have gone with Garry . ’ |
| 11 | And er Hannah 's going we started off the conversation where was the perviest you 've ever had one I mean , knowing that I did n't have one , ever had one before and that was Mark , feeble attempt that lasted about ten minutes |
| 12 | A part of me was do terrified , that I did n't have anything to lose when my turn came , which is why I refused what they wanted to do to me . |
| 13 | Eventually I convinced him that I did not want anything . |
| 14 | I could tell by her voice that she had just said something which she believed , and I was surprised , because I had somehow thought her too clever really to believe anything . |
| 15 | ‘ He did n't try to flirt with me the whole time , ’ she defended , and half wished then that she had n't said anything about lunchtime . |
| 16 | She entered her room , but , as reality started to creep in , she suddenly realised that she had n't said anything more to him about that interview . |
| 17 | She pulled the zip of her bag shut and glanced around the room , checking that she had n't forgotten anything she would need . |
| 18 | Rushing around the apartment like a madwoman , she 'd hastily thrown some clothes into a case — and she could only pray that she had n't forgotten anything vital . |
| 19 | She had been so worried that she had not given one thought to the fact that she was here in her nightdress with Felipe standing looking down at her . |
| 20 | There was only one crumb of comfort ; she was very glad that she had not said anything about it to Connor . |
| 21 | But it was n't until Ellen came to pick him up that he discovered that she had already bought everything for a picnic lunch . |
| 22 | It was the first time that she had ever told anyone of what had happened . |
| 23 | I am still dreaming of the white cotton lace bedspread that I have always promised to knit for my ‘ best friend ’ because I know that she had always wanted one . |
| 24 | The boat too affected her profoundly ; she had never been on a boat before , except for a rowing boat in the park , and she stood up on the top deck in the bitter grey April wind , and watched the foam and the emptiness and the receding bar of Folkestone , and she thought that she had never seen anything so wonderful in her life . |
| 25 | She said afterwards that she had never experienced anything like it , but that it was not unpleasant or fearful . |
| 26 | She had never been to Ireland and said that she had never read anything about that country , and yet she was able to supply an abundance of detail about the way of life in that place at an earlier time . |
| 27 | This was n't how she had planned it — not that she had really planned anything , but she had pictured herself , cold and ferocious , confronting him , shocking him with the knowledge that he had virtually killed her brother . |
| 28 | Nothing happened — not that she 'd really thought anything would — although there was a nervous tingle in her fingers . |
| 29 | Even though Carrie 's mother suspected something was different with her child , she was too caught up in her own religious world , that she did not do anything about Carrie 's obvious talent . |
| 30 | St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her . |