Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it more or less made it that we 'd got to go back for the ten and thruppence . |
| 2 | On his wedding night the sight of his wife 's pubic hair so appalled him that he was shocked into sexual abstinence for the rest of his life — not that he lost the urge . |
| 3 | Only got it that there 's news . |
| 4 | and so divided it that the remainder went to the husband to take up the one thousand one hundred and sixty five . |
| 5 | The 7th Earl decided in the early part of the twentieth century to install in the two rooms the panelling and so designed it that there were recesses for pictures . |
| 6 | Well , the immunologist from the clinic went in and evaluated Ron and basically told him that he had … that he was not going to live more than the most a few weeks , and he could have control over the time of his death if he wished , and that was his decision to make , and he should think about it and talk it over with me . |
| 7 | The discussion was opened by Chris Swinson , chairman of the Financial Reporting and Auditing Group , who basically told us that it was a foregone conclusion and after hearing views of those present , told us all to stop whingeing about the matter and to accept the situation . |
| 8 | I suddenly told them that I had to push , the urge was absolutely OVERPOWERING , quite unbelievable . |
| 9 | ‘ So I suddenly told him that I wished I had a son . |
| 10 | The book reached King Charles I in captivity , and its permissiveness so displeased him that he asked another of his chaplains , Dr Hammond , to refute it . |
| 11 | She merely told him that the book bore a crest , an embossed crest of a hawk . |
| 12 | That alone told her that she was far from being in love with Dick . |
| 13 | And they sat numb and silent in a small hospital office , as a doctor gently told them that Danny was dead . |
| 14 | Excitement had for days so filled her that she could not sleep , and now at last she had embarked upon it ; thoughts of loss and martyrdom paled before the facts . |
| 15 | No , she only told me that the other day yeah she is |
| 16 | Even Geoffrey Winbush 's statement only told them that Louise had been on the Woodham Road . |
| 17 | Beth had been surprised to know that Cissie herself had been thinking along those very same lines , and it only told her that she was right about Maisie 's children — they were growing up fast . |
| 18 | But something deep inside told him that Bernice had been right . |
| 19 | The hon. Member for Carlisle ( Mr. Martlew ) rightly told us that it would be impossible for a county council to run housing strategy . |
| 20 | Here otherwise close associates like Bridgeman and F. E. Smith distanced themselves from Maxse , while another committed tariff reformer , his fellow editor and friend H. A. Gwynne , pointedly told him that ‘ for good or evil ’ , the Conservative party was ‘ the only weapon we have with which to achieve our purpose and help on the causes which both you and I have strongly at heart … and anything that tends to disorganize it or to destroy the efficiency of that weapon seems to me to postpone the fulfilment of our desires … |
| 21 | Paul did n't have a very high opinion of Waafs and constantly told us that his Diedre would n't dream of joining up and that no girls looked their best in uniform . |
| 22 | The right hon. Member for Blaby will be remembered as the Chancellor who dismissed rising inflation as a temporary blip and who , having put up interest rates to 15 per cent. , none the less assured us that the economy would have , to use his phrase , a soft landing . |
| 23 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 24 | The letter inside informed me that Mrs J. Gargery had died the previous Monday , and that the burial would be next Monday , at 3 p.m . |
| 25 | The men went in and stated their case to the man in charge , but he merely informed them that they would get nothing immediately and that they were to come back when their money had gone . |
| 26 | The family recorded an anxious moment during the visit when the King lifted five-year-old Catherine Drummond in his arms and put her ‘ upon the Table which so much alarmed her that she burst out a crying . ’ |
| 27 | He so enjoyed them that Minton suggested he should write his own . |
| 28 | For some reason , this letter so unnerved her that she thought she must rush down to the sea at once , and run the thudding in her head quite out of it . |
| 29 | Then it suddenly hit her that , of course , he did n't approve of relationships . |
| 30 | Although admitting to the Kuomintang General Chang Fa-k'uei that he was a communist , he apparently persuaded him that it would take fifty years for communism to work in Vietnam ; and , in any event , it appeared that , of all the groupings of Vietnamese nationalists , patriots , émigrés and revolutionaries who were to be found in Southeast China , none of them was as dynamic as the Vietminh . |