Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [verb] [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before . |
| 2 | I explained that I 'd found someone to substitute for me — one of the Carter boys was looking for holiday work — but he kept making objections about unqualified staff , mentioning a notorious case a few years earlier when one malcontent teacher wreaked his revenge by teaching a group of teenage Italians that the English greet each other in the street with the phrase ‘ Piss off , wanker . ’ |
| 3 | My driver was under the impression that I had instructed him to break the world land-speed record . |
| 4 | " I 'm sorry , Ms. Easterbrook , that I had to ask you to come up before we were able to remove Dr. Lorrimer 's body . |
| 5 | Well it so happens that I did intend you to do a paramount of talking this afternoon , so it 's quite convenient in a way that we are being recorded . |
| 6 | Except , of course , she could never — ever — tell them what that folly had led to — even if , looking back , she could now honestly say that she had done nothing to provoke it , that she could have expected anger from Havvie at her changing her mind , but never that he would do as he did . |
| 7 | Once again , she refrained from mentioning that she had asked them to keep the baby in the nursery as his presence in the room was upsetting her . |
| 8 | John Morgan , 64 , who was her driver in 1988 when the young township activist was killed , told the Johannesburg Sunday Times that she had ordered him to remove the body from her Soweto home and ‘ dump the dog ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 10 | Now and again there was a light in his eyes , a far-off look , that was so appealing to her senses that she had to break it to ease her own pain . |
| 11 | A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights . |
| 12 | Her biggest problem was n't work , however , but the fact that she 'd done nothing to tackle her eating problems . |
| 13 | It was to convince Karen , partly , that she 'd wanted her to come and have a holiday , to see it for herself . |
| 14 | She was a devout appeaser , totally apathetic about world politics , but quite positive about Charles Willoughby ; so much so that she 'd allowed him to move into her flat in the enormous new block facing south across the river to the huge but fairly new Battersea Power Station . |
| 15 | That she 'd removed it to look at , I mean . |
| 16 | Another time I was so fascinated by her clicking needles that she offered to teach me to knit as well . |
| 17 | I told her that you had sent me to try to trap her into making unwary and unguarded statements and unwittingly to betray herself . |
| 18 | Yes , yeah all that all that part was okay erm but from the point of view of the script th th that we 'd asked you to learn last night y you did n't do that now that may well work for you , the way you 're actually doing it , but from a training point of view we , we 're trying to look that you 're actually following the , the script there . |
| 19 | One constable had the temerity to state that we had had nothing to eat since 9.30 a.m . |
| 20 | Waking the next morning , she was outraged that they 'd left her to sleep . |
| 21 | Rumours have been circulating that they wanted to hold it to tie in with Aliens 3 , although with that still way off in the future , it 's more likely that a full-scale theatrical release of The Special Edition is planned for the distant future . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Even Brando became so concerned over Clift 's drinking that he went to see him to try to persuade him to join AA . |
| 24 | Moreover since he did not wish to have preying on his mind any malice or grudge by reason of which his father might later be offended , he revealed that he had pledged himself to support the barons of Aquitaine against his brother Richard and said that he had done this because Richard had fortified the castle of Clairvaux though it really belonged to the Angevin patrimony which he should inherit from his father . " |
| 25 | A group of refugees rescued from the war in Bosnia and brought to this country have been inundated with offers of help and accommodation.The six families were rescued by a headmaster , who saw pictures of the war on television and decided that he had to do something to help . |
| 26 | The only reason Naylor had removed that hat was that he had ordered her to do it and , unused to not being obeyed , had taken it upon himself to remove it personally — no argument . |
| 27 | Was it because everything that had been precious to him had been torn from him that he had to find someone to blame for his losses , someone to take advantage of , someone from whom he could derive consolation ? |
| 28 | He said he knew the tablets would not have harmed him and admitted that he had taken them to make his wife see how much he needed her . |
| 29 | Now , suddenly , he had an uneasy feeling that he had allowed himself to go a little ‘ over the top ’ . |
| 30 | Ginny wished that he had allowed her to take off her coat before he started . |