Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [pron] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , when nothing she could do from inside the car would make it go again , she began to realise in her non-mechanical mind that she had something of a problem on her hands . |
| 2 | Mrs. Steed , too , insisted that she knew nothing of the sale . |
| 3 | The severity of her head injuries — when found she had lost 75 per cent of her blood and remained unconscious for almost six weeks — meant that she remembered nothing of the attack . |
| 4 | Portlington was a public school so minor that you got none of the cachet for having been there that is the real point of an English public school education . |
| 5 | In view of what I am about to relate , it would not be proper of me to identify the manoeuvre any more precisely , though you may well guess which one I am alluding to if I say that it caused something of an uproar at the time , adding significantly to the controversy the conflict as a whole was attracting . |
| 6 | Owen confessed that it became something of a joke to say , at the end of telephone calls , ‘ Say hello to our friend Ivan . ’ |
| 7 | Expecting to find a look of mockery on his face , she was disconcerted to see that it held nothing of the sort . |
| 8 | Ken said — he came for Sunday lunch now , often with his stepdaughter but without his wife , who felt awkward in Ellen 's presence — that it reminded him of a kitten he 'd given Wendy on the day she gave birth to Apricot . |
| 9 | Before the storm broke he fell into a sleep so peaceful and deep that he heard nothing of the thunder crashing overhead or of the rush of waters as the lake filled and spread and crept and grew like a living thing . |
| 10 | She knew , from how he had said , " there is nothing wrong with a comfortable life , " that he felt none of the revulsion she did . |
| 11 | In Division One he was subjected to a lot of dubious physical challenge and then , as Palace managers came and went , Vince 's role was constantly changing , so that he became something of an enigma to Palace fans who would one week marvel at his sinuous skills and near-perfect control but then despair at his virtual anonymity the next . |
| 12 | It was n't until almost his last breath that he told her of the board beneath his bed and what was under it , assuring her he had saved it for her . |
| 13 | Starkey said yesterday that he knew nothing of the move and as far as he was concerned he was still on Cacoethes . |
| 14 | His embarrassment about self-disclosure gives the impression , belied by his other books , that he knew nothing of the mystery that grace works by means of human weakness , not by side-stepping it . |
| 15 | He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank . |
| 16 | Major insisted that he knew nothing of the BCCI fraud before June 28 , 1991 , when he was informed by the Bank of England . |