Example sentences of "and that [pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 When he was satisfied that he was all right and that no-one had heard him , he picked up the brown bag and moved into the safety of the trees .
2 According to second-hand reports of the conversation Krishchaty said that the body was lying on the ground at about 8,250m and that they had passed it two or three times .
3 I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich .
4 I suddenly realised that there were all these great black players around in Louisiana , and that I 'd missed them completely !
5 As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’
6 What was striking was that the women artists were reshaping an inherited iconographic language and that it had become theirs to stake out as their own : the language of the body .
7 But to my dismay he said he 'd got a local caddie for Birkdale , and that he 'd misunderstood me when I said I 'd caddie for him anywhere .
8 He said his lawyer had persuaded him to contest his father 's will and that he 'd regretted it ever since .
9 Frank claimed that he had not known that Gobie was running a prostitution service from Frank 's apartment on Capitol Hill and that he had dismissed him upon learning of it .
10 It was only when the colours gave way to plain gold before subsiding into diminishing fountains of silver that she realised she had moved closer to Rune , seeking instinctive protection against the sharp noise of the exploding rockets and that he had gathered her to his strong male body , pinning her to his side by the power of his arm , his hand firmly pressed against her waist .
11 Contemporary reaction to this magnificent poem is typified by a critic in The Monthly Review in 1763 who thought he knew that Smart was forbidden the use of writing materials in the asylum and that he had written it ‘ with the end of a key , upon the wainscot ’ .
12 I had to keep reminding myself that the plans we 'd had were n't just a dream and that he had loved me .
13 In those early months he had wanted her to know the magnitude of what he had done and that he had done it for her .
14 It never occurred to him that the story was questionable , that Wainfleet had deliberately published something he did not totally believe and that he had done it in retaliation for being humiliated .
15 It was very hard indeed to believe she had walked in there with a wolf creature and that he had drawn her down onto the forest floor and made love to her …
16 Her mother had once remarked that it was her opinion that Harry had actually caused Nathan 's idiocy in a fit of temper soon after he was born , and through whispered gossip over the years she had guessed that Tristram had become the focus of conflict between his parents and that he had found it increasingly necessary to defend both Nathan and his mother against his father 's violent outbursts of temper .
17 But they told their grand father that they had seen the god , and that he had taken them to the mountain-top .
18 They still had more right than she did to own anything her father had left , but she desperately wanted something , something to be able to look at , something to let her know that he really had existed and that he had needed her after all .
19 You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons .
20 When Matey had returned on that fateful afternoon , Dr Neil had told her that he had proposed to McAllister , and that she had accepted him .
21 And that she had made it perfectly clear that , to her , fidelity and trust meant more than just nothing — meant everything , in fact .
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