Example sentences of "[adv] that [pron] [vb past] what " in BNC.

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1 So that we knew what pattern the tiles had been in .
2 With grave face and totally businesslike voice he began to talk about the beginnings of this place , of the way he had planned and discussed the enterprise , and how he had enabled the local people to be involved all the way through , so that they knew what he was planning , and they did n't feel threatened by him , but collaborated with him , knowing that it meant jobs , roads and plumbing and a higher standard of living for them all .
3 He had a clear , incisive mind and might be able to blow some of the cobwebs away so that she knew what to say to Amsterdam when the time came .
4 Mr Reynolds was also given information about the operation and what would happen to him afterwards so that he knew what to expect .
5 It was only after we had left , and were returning home that I realised what a good feeling it was to have helped someone in pain .
6 It was n't until later that I saw what ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ was capable of , in Block 10 .
7 It was n't until later that I realised what it was .
8 I wept buckets , but it was n't until later that I realized what had happened .
9 They 'd been friends , companions , they 'd got on well together , but , now that she knew what real love was , she knew that she had never for one moment loved him .
10 Now that he knew what had to be done , it was remarkable how different he felt .
11 I thought when I first came here that I hated what she was trying to do to me and then I came to see that the clothes , the manners , the society , all those things were part of a process , a process to give me enough confidence to do what I liked , not to live in eternal dread of insignificance and error .
12 ‘ It was then that I realised what a lovely person he was , ’ says Avril .
13 Jessamy wished again that she knew what was really going on inside his head .
14 The famous sequence when the helicopters gather in the sky before the great attack has music with it — very familiar music ! — but , do you know , I was so gripped by the power of Coppola 's image , the helicopters , the music , that it was n't until many , many hours afterwards that I realized what the music was he had been using .
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