Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Though of course before that I 'd already done my bit : I was one of Our Lads , I was an Expeditionary , part of the Task Force that recaptured Maggie 's surrendered popularity . ’ |
| 2 | I sent him a bundle of clippings that I thought amply documented my charge . |
| 3 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 4 | Now it seemed fortunate that I had n't ; just as it seemed , though still obscurely , fortunate that I had n't lost my head in other ways when I wrote to her . |
| 5 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 6 | Never mind that I had n't remembered my birthday either . |
| 7 | The first thought that came to me was that I had n't got my clean bloomers on . |
| 8 | I was confused and still worried that there might be horses and that I had not changed my bloomers which were wet from where I had fallen in the icy fish . |
| 9 | It had just crossed my mind that I had not had my boots off since the evening of the 4th June and it was now 8th June . |
| 10 | ‘ Indeed , but for my brother 's tears , his reproaches that I had not drawn my sword , I would have dismissed the whole affair as a nightmare . ’ |
| 11 | Did he know that she 'd revealed his habit of farting as he came , or that I had once worn his pyjamas while she blew me ? |
| 12 | The fact that I had never seen my aunt looking so elegant added to my impression that I was imagining this . |
| 13 | I did n't relish this : not least because it meant that I did n't break my silence until the cheese course . |
| 14 | This is so much my own trouble that I did n't want my husband 's name to come into it . |
| 15 | And after that I decided that I did n't want my family . |
| 16 | I wrote to the Health Education Authority telling them that I did n't think their advertisements would affect lifestyles much , if at all . |
| 17 | The lyrics , 2 , are unmistakably Prince , all 2s and 4s and Us , with a sentiment similar to Janet Jackson 's AIDS generation love song ‘ Let's Wait Awhile ’ — ‘ it 's just that I did n't think our first date should be in bed ’ . |
| 18 | The lyrics , 2 , are unmistakably Prince , all 2s and 4s and Us , with a sentiment similar to Janet Jackson 's AIDS generation love song ‘ Let's Wait Awhile ’ — ‘ it 's just that I did n't think our first date should be in bed ’ . |
| 19 | I meant that I did n't know his name was Verlander . ’ |
| 20 | I felt like kissing the dinghy , and I 'm not sure that I did n't put my lips to the rough friendly fabric of her snub nose . |
| 21 | I think they noticed that I did not follow their example . |
| 22 | ‘ I admired Lewis and his friends immensely , ’ Wain reported years later in an autobiography ; but ‘ already it was clear that I did not share their basic attitudes , ’ which were Christian , conservative and anti-modern . |
| 23 | ‘ If you mean that I worked hard to make my own money , then yes , I did . |
| 24 | Do they take a blindfold and a pin into the booth with them , and then spend four years boasting that nobody had better take their support for granted if they want to get re-elected ? |
| 25 | She had no idea , Leni was certain , that she had even harmed her brother 's career , let alone collapsed it . |
| 26 | For a moment she was afraid that David was going to ask her what on earth she was talking about and tell her that she had completely misunderstood his elliptical declaration , but he did not . |
| 27 | She just sat on the stairs eating biscuit after biscuit until , just before midnight , the telephone rang and she heard the voice of the surgeon telling her that the operation was over , that it had been a complete success and that Paul was likely to make a rapid recovery It was after that call that Annette realised that she had steadily munched her way through two and a half packets of biscuits . |
| 28 | When Leo made some small movement , she was suddenly brought back to the present and became mortifyingly aware that she had just emptied her heart to a virtual stranger . |
| 29 | And it was no wonder that she had n't touched his lips with hers . |
| 30 | Her arms hugged around herself , she stood in the phone-box for a long time after she 'd replaced the receiver and it seemed quite incomprehensible to her now that she had n't contacted her mother before . |