Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke states that everyone had to go to their home town to be registered . |
| 2 | He ‘ produced his bell and rang it , stating that that was what he did at the time ’ , but the magistrate told him ‘ that he must not think that everyone had to scamper out of the way upon hearing the sound of his bell ’ . |
| 3 | Enthusiasm for the content of the materials — especially in lower primary classes — was still clearly evident and at state level there was considerable resolve to maintain aspects of the new curriculum and the closer supervision it entailed in at least some schools , despite the challenge of universal primary education which effectively meant that everyone had to try to do more with less . |
| 4 | Jessamy suddenly grew tired of the silly games that everyone seemed to have been playing with her lately . |
| 5 | My only memory of those auditions was that everyone seemed to have a better idea of why they were perfect for each particular part than I did ! |
| 6 | Perhaps the school was not the financial success that everyone seemed to think . |
| 7 | The main problem was that everyone seemed to assume that Gouzenko was an expert on every facet of Russian intelligence operations . |
| 8 | There was no point telling Mom that , because whenever she did so her mother just told her that everyone needed to study and her grades would drop if she stopped . |
| 9 | It seemed that everyone wanted to know about what I was doing . |
| 10 | Their success gave them a power that everyone wanted to share ; their commercial momentum carried the whole pop world along . |
| 11 | I felt such a strong love for them that I planned to spend the rest of my life among them , and to try to become more like them . |
| 12 | The young lady in question ( who I shall call Mrs X because I am afraid that I omitted to catch her name ) began by asking me what the bad points were within the embalming profession . |
| 13 | Ever since James brought me the clothes of that unfortunate young girl , I have been beset by a conviction that I failed to notice something of importance . ’ |
| 14 | My confidence suffered so much that I failed to reach the 50-wicket mark in three successive County Championship campaigns with Middlesex . |
| 15 | The scene was so exciting that I failed to sympathise with my grey-faced guest who returned with tales of third world conditions in the gents . |
| 16 | I tried to be sick in the toilet , but even that I failed to do . |
| 17 | I was pleased with this reflection , and so convoluted is the human mind that I ceased to take pride in my lack of pride and was proud that I had found myself capable of it . |
| 18 | ‘ It was then that I got to realize Ken 's great knowledge of London and of history . |
| 19 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |
| 20 | However , on the first day that I got to know her I had a feeling that there was something peculiar about the woman . |
| 21 | Andrew Stavanger was compelled to turn to the bank for help after the dock strikes , and it was then that I got to know him . |
| 22 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 23 | Some weeks later there were headlines in the newspapers saying that I threatened to resign . |
| 24 | It was largely due to him that I managed to negotiate successfully with government officials and tribal chiefs during the months that followed . |
| 25 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 26 | ‘ But it probably will surprise you to hear that I managed to resist the temptation to indulge my talent for marriage-wrecking and confined myself to one already divorced man and one bachelor . ’ |
| 27 | There should have been plenty of time for all the work we planned , but what with all the delays of getting the assay going in an unfamiliar lab , as well as making a quick canter round a dozen or so Australian campuses to give seminars , it was n't until almost the last few days of my visit , during a long car journey through the outback to attend a biochemistry congress at Brisbane , that I managed to decode and assemble all the data . |
| 28 | ‘ However , the good news is that I managed to find the switch for the air-conditioning . |
| 29 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 30 | Once again it was during some exchanges with colleagues from other establishments that I began to realise the significance of ‘ who is on your side ’ . |