Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now Bathsheba , ’ he said , laughing , ‘ you know very well that I had to be very careful , as a single man working for you , a good-looking young woman . |
| 2 | It was the person , the personality that I grew to be really good friends with , that I have now grown to love . ’ |
| 3 | It was a measure of my despair that I dared to be so disdainful . |
| 4 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 5 | I also felt that I wanted to be apart from the routine of normal home life with the washing , cooking and to think about . |
| 6 | He supposed that she had to be somewhere and he reminded himself that they were n't supposed to be together so what did it matter , but still he kept catching himself scanning the crowd for her . |
| 7 | Weirdly , the step turned into a kind of floating movement , so that she seemed to be somehow poised in the air for an instant . |
| 8 | He was somewhat consoled to find that she seemed to be genuinely interested . |
| 9 | The two women had not been able to help much by way of descriptions apart from recounting details of the horrific masks the burglars wore and that one appeared to be rather thin ( the one with the broken leg ) . |
| 10 | Did n't you say that he 'd expect you to tidy your bedroom every day before you went to school and at night before you went to bed , that everything had to be perfectly in place ? |
| 11 | When they came I was rather surprised that there seemed to be so many ; I said I had no idea that I 'd ordered as many as this . |
| 12 | The first thing we discovered was that there seemed to be almost no information to go on . |
| 13 | Anglo-Scots had a theory — perhaps justified by Bridie 's remark — that they had to be twice as good as a home-bred player to break through into the national team , whereas those North of the Border believed the corollary . |
| 14 | Because there was a great Tory voice sounded throughout the press and the mass media you see , that er on compensation for the railways , if there ever should be nationalization that they had to be amply compensated you see . |
| 15 | approximately twenty-five per cent of the children evacuated were in such a filthy condition that they had to be specially treated . |
| 16 | The wages of sin , he supposed , trying to be glad , for Cara 's sake , that they appeared to be so good . |
| 17 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 18 | As the excluded social forces grew in political strength , so they pressed in on the established constitution in ways which eventually caused it to buckle so that it came to be more in line with their views as to how things should be . |
| 19 | Arette is a particularly neat , new-looking village , for the sufficient reason that it needed to be much rebuilt after an earthquake there in the summer of 1967 . |
| 20 | Tralhaut comments that he seemed to be almost glorying in his failure to break down the barriers and ‘ storm the fortress ’ of his love 's frozen heart . |
| 21 | Well it 's one of those occupations or businesses that he had to be there more or less |
| 22 | The reason I called James Hunt ‘ Master James ’ , a sobriquet which his sponsors , Texaco , took up and plastered ( without payment ! ) on billboards all over the country , was that he appeared to be exactly that , -a rather well-brought-up young man , properly educated , well-mannered ( when I gave him the name , though not in some of his more flamboyant later incarnations ! ) and thoroughly at home in the establishment circles in which he moved . |
| 23 | It was n't that he wanted to be more imaginative than them . |
| 24 | He had made the excuse that he needed to be there to greet the Prince of Wales , but making this pronouncement , which he had previously rehearsed many times , failed to fill him with the satisfaction he had anticipated . |