Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Petra surpassed anything that I had visualised in my kitchen fantasy-life . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The discipline that I had experienced in my schools in Kingston was just not there . |
| 4 | They were half open , silently fixing her in a look so intense and piercing that she felt caught in it , as if hypnotized . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She later confessed that she had seen in him not a budding genius , but only a ‘ little man ’ . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the Russians were left in no doubt that they had blundered in their relationship with Castro . |
| 8 | They recounted all that they had learned in their careful reconnaissance , clustered in a corner of the great hall with the dogs round their feet in the rushes . |
| 9 | Following announcement of the settlement , the government admitted that it had blundered in its handling of the affair , and on Oct. 30 Antall went so far as to suggest to parliament that he should resign ( no formal resignation offer was made , however ) . |
| 10 | After he had stabled Philomel , Athelstan remembered the verses from Scripture and studied the great leather-bound Bible that he kept chained in his house 's one and only cupboard . |
| 11 | He also had another er , what we call a journey waybill and that , he used to record on there at each termini he used to record the time and the ticket numbers that he 'd got in his rack at that particular time , so it could be seen between certain times that a ticket perhaps was sold between Witton and Rushmere Heath . |
| 12 | Ramsey afterwards could not remember a word that he had said in his speech . |
| 13 | This never came to trial and in the autumn he sold the land to IBM for a price similar to that received by other farmers , with a sum for damages much smaller than that he had sought in his suit . |
| 14 | Suddenly the people , his people , were expressing only loathing for all that he had achieved in his thirty-seven years on the throne . |
| 15 | This was a quite remarkable transformation in a man who only two years before had talked of dying : neither fame nor literary achievement had brought him any contentment , and in the end it was human love , the love that he had dismissed in his writings as the consolation only of ordinary men , that rescued him from a lifetime of misery and isolation . |
| 16 | This observation led him to his third important realization , namely , that the tension that he had seen in his neck was causing other tensions throughout his whole structure . |
| 17 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 18 | He did so in a speech in the Norman town of Bayeux — a symbolic location because this town had been one of those that he had visited in his first trip to liberated territory in June 1944 . |
| 19 | That is to say , Picasso uses as a starting point the same logical or rational analysis of volume that he had evolved in his Negroid paintings . |
| 20 | Allegations that he had prevaricated in his duties and had illegally appropriated DM40,000 had led to his dismissal in January . |
| 21 | No master pleaded for his future : it seemed that he had traded in his scholarship for that foreign and rather dangerous element-self-expression . |
| 22 | The voluntary coalition plan floated by Craig also temporarily damaged Beattie in that many DUP members felt that he had failed in his duty more clearly to oppose such a scheme in the discussions at which he was DUP spokesman . |
| 23 | The Arab League Secretary-General , Chedli Klibi ( Tunisia ) , had already resigned on Sept. 3 , over alleged accusations from Saudi Arabia 's Foreign Minister , Prince Saud al Faisal , that he had failed in his mandate to discover why some Arab countries had expressed reservations or abstained from voting during the August Arab emergency summit on Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait [ see p. 37635 ] . |
| 24 | The writer remarked that he had ‘ never doubted but that he had succeeded in his place by a commission from the Treasury untill of late that I discovered that he only officiated by orders and an interim warrand from the Commissioners of Customs ’ . |