Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the treaties with the States-General of 1654 and 1667 the English government succeeded in having its claims accepted by its rival ; and so sensible a man as Sir William Temple felt that nothing had ever given him greater pleasure than forcing the Dutch to give way once more on this point in the peace negotiations of 1674 . |
| 2 | The general opinion was yes , but certain it was that no-one had ever seen her . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | There was a click and she 'd gone , and I could hardly believe that I 'd ever doubted her as a relay post . |
| 5 | Not that I 'd ever tried it , but , that sort of thing , semolina , and all that , |
| 6 | That I 'd actually done it I suppose . |
| 7 | ‘ That I 'd never seen her from that day to this , of course . |
| 8 | " I told her , " said Mrs Maugham , handing her daughter a plastic butter dish , " that I 'd never seen it . " |
| 9 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 10 | ‘ And I believe that I began then to train myself to listen in the voice of somebody , or look through the outer facade . |
| 11 | I sent him a bundle of clippings that I thought amply documented my charge . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I realized that I had completely forgotten what he sounded like . |
| 14 | I tried the church door one last time in the vain hope that I had mistakenly found it closed , but closed it remained . |
| 15 | On the wall of that room was a patch where the barometer had hung — so familiar a face that I had hardly realized it was there . |
| 16 | Did you not think when you saw the girl in the way you found her that I had actually ruined her , as she calls it ? |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | Then Duncan Paterson , the selection convenor , came on to say that I had better get myself over to Murrayfield as soon as I could ! |
| 19 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 20 | No , I think that I had better take one from the Scottish National party . |
| 21 | The fact that I had never seen my aunt looking so elegant added to my impression that I was imagining this . |
| 22 | I felt that I had never seen anyone so old . |
| 23 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
| 24 | I said that I had never heard anything more extraordinary . |
| 25 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 26 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 27 | ‘ Hi , ’ said the Ukrainian doorman at the Airds ' building , using the sum of the English that I had ever heard him speak , apart from ‘ God bless , ’ ‘ Cab , sir ? , ’ and ‘ You bet your ass . ’ |
| 28 | You could not have thought that I had ever considered her as my wife . |
| 29 | I ca n't say that I did honestly enjoy it at first . |
| 30 | ‘ On that particular day , we arrived there about ten o'clock , and I refused at first to go any farther ; the charm of those gardens and their flowers was so great that I wanted never to leave them . |