Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Though of course before that I 'd already done my bit : I was one of Our Lads , I was an Expeditionary , part of the Task Force that recaptured Maggie 's surrendered popularity . ’ |
| 2 | Now it seemed fortunate that I had n't ; just as it seemed , though still obscurely , fortunate that I had n't lost my head in other ways when I wrote to her . |
| 3 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 4 | Never mind that I had n't remembered my birthday either . |
| 5 | The first thought that came to me was that I had n't got my clean bloomers on . |
| 6 | I was confused and still worried that there might be horses and that I had not changed my bloomers which were wet from where I had fallen in the icy fish . |
| 7 | It had just crossed my mind that I had not had my boots off since the evening of the 4th June and it was now 8th June . |
| 8 | ‘ Indeed , but for my brother 's tears , his reproaches that I had not drawn my sword , I would have dismissed the whole affair as a nightmare . ’ |
| 9 | Did he know that she 'd revealed his habit of farting as he came , or that I had once worn his pyjamas while she blew me ? |
| 10 | The fact that I had never seen my aunt looking so elegant added to my impression that I was imagining this . |
| 11 | She had no idea , Leni was certain , that she had even harmed her brother 's career , let alone collapsed it . |
| 12 | For a moment she was afraid that David was going to ask her what on earth she was talking about and tell her that she had completely misunderstood his elliptical declaration , but he did not . |
| 13 | She just sat on the stairs eating biscuit after biscuit until , just before midnight , the telephone rang and she heard the voice of the surgeon telling her that the operation was over , that it had been a complete success and that Paul was likely to make a rapid recovery It was after that call that Annette realised that she had steadily munched her way through two and a half packets of biscuits . |
| 14 | When Leo made some small movement , she was suddenly brought back to the present and became mortifyingly aware that she had just emptied her heart to a virtual stranger . |
| 15 | And it was no wonder that she had n't touched his lips with hers . |
| 16 | Her arms hugged around herself , she stood in the phone-box for a long time after she 'd replaced the receiver and it seemed quite incomprehensible to her now that she had n't contacted her mother before . |
| 17 | The fact that she had n't seen her prospective husband since she was ten was neither here nor there . |
| 18 | However they accepted that Mrs. Buttigieg is a regular and long-time customer and that she had n't seen their notice . |
| 19 | Having driven herself to meet Travis to obviate Naylor Massingham knowing that she had n't heeded his ‘ … in your interests not to see him again' warning , Leith discovered that she need not have bothered . |
| 20 | ‘ I said earlier in the year that she had n't reached her peak . |
| 21 | She knew she wore the scarf through a sense of guilt , a gesture to her family to say that she had n't forgotten her religious upbringing . |
| 22 | Defries had made it clear that she had n't abandoned her intention to destroy the heart of the Spinward Corporation , even at the sacrifice of her own life , and Bernice stayed alongside her at least partly to prevent her doing something rash . |
| 23 | She was seized with panic , remembering that she had not seen her own face for so long . |
| 24 | Kathleen had not dared to mention those things , must pretend that she had not noticed their absence . |
| 25 | The short answer to that is I think that she had not forfeited her right to be maintained by her husband by being in desertion : she had only suspended her right and not destroyed it . |
| 26 | She had n't really believed him , but so much of her new life had still to make sense to her that she had not challenged his statement . |
| 27 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 28 | Relieved that she had not betrayed her real feelings , Sophie concentrated on the morning surgery , which , however , was not very busy . |
| 29 | Hoping desperately that she had not changed her mind , he leaned over and kissed her on the mouth . |
| 30 | The reason , we found , was that she had not changed her self-image . |