Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake . |
| 2 | Yeah , well erm , see I advertised it all round cafe as well that I 'd sent for it as well . |
| 3 | Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night |
| 4 | What it turned out to be was a lump of clay that I 'd moulded into what looked like a piece of black and wrapped up in silver paper just fooling about and they really freaked out and they kicked me out and had the police involved and everything . |
| 5 | I said almost nothing in the letter ; only that I 'd thought about her once or twice , that I had discovered what ‘ the waiting-room ’ meant ; and that she was to write back only if she really wanted to , I 'd quite understand if she did n't . |
| 6 | Pray God it was n't Tommy Elliot 's farm , which I 'd played with for two years and which I feared — from glances and whispers that I 'd caught between my sister and Mrs Elliot — was going to be cleaned up and bought for me for Christmas . |
| 7 | Stopping to ask a local woman where I might find Dr Mareda , I discovered that I was speaking to his companion , Vera , and that I had stopped outside their front door . |
| 8 | Mrs Sandison senior was sitting in the stern , complaining about the lack of rising fish , and the useless flies that I had mounted on her cast , when the trout grabbed . |
| 9 | Petra surpassed anything that I had visualised in my kitchen fantasy-life . |
| 10 | Largely forgotten until recently , Watson 's fine sun-dappled landscapes had elegant figure studies have begun to reappear in London galleries , including Richard Green , and Blamey was surprised that I had heard of him . |
| 11 | I just rea I mean I knew that I had heard of it then I realized . |
| 12 | It seemed a very personal and special wave — the kind that I had seen in my mind 's eye in a night of tangled dreaming . |
| 13 | Will the Minister cast his mind back to the letter that he wrote to me last October — a soothing reply to the representations that I had made to him — pointing out that the Salford careers service , which covers my constituency , had forecast a shortfall of between 400 and 450 YTS places ? |
| 14 | But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand . |
| 15 | There was no sign of Haines , no one had come with a list of grievances , and Harold was able to give some of the assurances that I had urged upon him before the first dinner . |
| 16 | Feeling flustered and guilty that I had departed from my normal custom of never working on a pupil 's painting , I foolishly replied " Yes " . |
| 17 | ‘ You thought perhaps that I had forgotten about your existence ? ’ |
| 18 | I think I must have expressed dissatisfaction with the ‘ Poetry and Propaganda ’ article , because , like others that I had submitted to him up to that point , it was never to appear . |
| 19 | When I saw his blue eyes open wide in surprise , I felt very sorry I had lied , and that evening , as soon as I found Joe alone for a moment , I confessed to him that I had lied about my visit to Miss Havisham . |
| 20 | All that morning I was frightened that my sister would discover that I had stolen from her , but luckily she was so busy cleaning the house , and roasting the chickens for our Christmas lunch that she did not notice that I had been out , or that any food was missing . |
| 21 | I told her all that I had read of him . |
| 22 | The discipline that I had experienced in my schools in Kingston was just not there . |
| 23 | It was because of that meagre income that she became incensed at her tutor , Maurice Greiffenhagen , who had a habit of sitting down at his students ' drawings and paintings and finishing them off . |
| 24 | Sabine had a confused impression of height and strength , and an anger so powerful that she felt scorched by it . |
| 25 | What was n't sitting well was those sapphire eyes studying her with such disturbing intensity that she felt stripped to her soul ! |
| 26 | Jehana was trying so hard to demonstrate that she did not care for Alexei 's attentions that he was sure that she felt attracted to him . |
| 27 | They were half open , silently fixing her in a look so intense and piercing that she felt caught in it , as if hypnotized . |
| 28 | Dr Marshall , who as a vegan eats no animal products , agreed that she had eaten in her room , but said that she did no cooking . |
| 29 | She wished even harder that she had gone with him . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been there , ’ she said , but he rode over that , bent on ignoring his unreasonable jealousy that she had gone with anyone else . |