Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 3 | I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark . |
| 4 | Yeah , I never though of that and I doubt if I get it now , all I think was well I know that I got it in the magazine rack |
| 5 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
| 6 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
| 7 | I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime . |
| 8 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 9 | She said it as if it was a joke , but Alan knew perfectly well that she meant it from the bottom of her heart . |
| 10 | People will argue that she did it as a good deed , in helping her husband 's friend . |
| 11 | ( One of the teachers whom I interviewed , and who did not comment on this question , has since told me that she used it with a class . |
| 12 | You said that you got it for a bet , well a bet is usually something like swimming in the North Sea on Christmas Day , I mean something sharp and brief , while working for a degree , however brilliant you are , takes years . |
| 13 | How you going to know exactly where the boundaries go or i in between some land-lock countries that you got it in the right position |
| 14 | He did not say what it was but it may be that we found it in the safe this morning . |
| 15 | B. Hunslett claims the Service Crew were the first élitist group to travel the country with the casual look , and that they brought it to the attention of the general public . |
| 16 | ‘ It is a coincidence that they announced it on the eve of my press conference , ’ he admitted . |
| 17 | The most likely explanation is that they saw it as a way to keep the Catholic-educated Mary out of Scotland , while maintaining their formal loyalty to her , thereby maximizing their opportunity to advance the Protestant cause while minimizing the need to clash directly with their sovereign ; there was , after all , no sign that Mary was particularly interested in the internal affairs of her kingdom , and although it was a gamble , and a risky one , leaving her to continue to enjoy life in France appeared to be the best chance they had . |
| 18 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 19 | They saw that how that , they saw the Chinese problem essentially as one of exploitation and that how that as soon as , that they saw it as the land problem |
| 20 | The programme makers were so impressed by Sheila 's contribution that they featured it as a programme in its own right . |
| 21 | The surprise here is that they did it with the best , very purest intentions , poor lambs . |
| 22 | Our answer is that they bought it for no money down because there were able to . |
| 23 | Two fifteenth-century archbishops of Canterbury , Chichele and Bourchier , write of ‘ the Church of England ’ in terms which show that they regarded it as a distinctive entity within the Church Universal , and one in which they could take considerable national pride . |
| 24 | Suppose that within the five-year term the Government were defeated in the Commons on a topic so important that it regarded it as a matter of confidence in itself . |
| 25 | That he wrote it in the winter of 1940 – 41 gave an indication of the insecurity which underlay his apparent aloofness . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not sure whether I should be flattered or otherwise , ’ her host drawled , and she decided on the spot that she hated men with sophisticated wit — was he saying that he took it as a compliment , or not , that he only got one mention at lunchtime ? |
| 27 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 28 | Sharp fulminated against any notion of equality of opportunity while the financial disparities between authorities remained , but his writing on the subject leads one to suspect that he viewed it as a ‘ shibboleth ’ in more ways than financial ones . |
| 29 | But in the very next poem he says that he did it for a change of diet , a bout of ‘ physic ’ as it were , needed after over-indulgence : ‘ being full of your ne'er cloying sweetness , /To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding ’ ( 118 ) . |
| 30 | We shall return to the second part of the old horseman 's description : here it is necessary to emphasize that he used it in an exceptional way . |