Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an extra cost but also I learned in the end like the top earners do er and I guess I was mister average because I was coming in to do this job not that one , erm I I decided or worked out that I could do two or three deals in a day between a certain hour . |
| 2 | Braid is similar , except that the threads are interwoven or plaited so that they are unable to unwind or separate . |
| 3 | Again , this is no gloating sesh — without competition , NME would n't be this good — merely a roll-call of those that died so that we may live … |
| 4 | I had begun to shrink , become half human , to lose touch with my body and mentally cut off the bits that hurt so that they could n't be hurt any more . |
| 5 | I kicked on away from the fence and realized then that we were in front . |
| 6 | She tried to recall what twentieth-century German she knew , but was too rusty , and realized quickly that she would never be able to translate the labels on her own . |
| 7 | ‘ Gloucestershire , ’ she saw no harm in telling him , and realised then that she had again forgotten her quest — that interview . |
| 8 | I did a little analysis on the league table last evening and found out that we 've beaten *all* the bottom six and have n't played or beaten anyone in the top nine yet ! |
| 9 | In the end I thought it was a good job that I 'd cut her dead because I began to pick up the gossip about her and found out that she 'd left home when she did because she was pregnant and had had a baby . |
| 10 | It 's as if you 'd gone out into the bigger world and found out that it 's frightening or that it hurts , so you go home . |
| 11 | He 'd always assumed that this was a piece of official terminology until one day he 'd asked what it meant , and found out that it stood for Another Fucking Drunk . |
| 12 | When I read Mark 's letter and found out that it was you … ’ |
| 13 | Okay in Italy on the marble it does work , but on the slate it you know it it has n't worked and I think various quarries have tried it and found out that it does n't work , and yet he assumed that he knew better and you know , little little things like that , you know he just seemed unwilling to learn or lis heed advice . |
| 14 | I lied and shouted back that I did n't know where it was . |
| 15 | The man was close-shaved , wore the scent of deodorant , and Holly was stubble-bearded and stank so that he himself could know the foulness . |
| 16 | You say that you value receiving more information and having closer links with your university , and encouraged by that we shall carry on working hard to make that contact easy and pleasurable . |
| 17 | Mr. Cooper , the chairman of the dock company and the ports authority , gave evidence before me and stated unequivocally that it did not come from him , nor to his knowledge from any of his subordinates . |
| 18 | It was a relief to all of them when at half-past ten Robina got up and declared firmly that they had a long journey and must now go . |
| 19 | Roland watched Maud making noises which he sensed came naturally , and sensed too that she would never make in the Women 's Studies building . |
| 20 | Johnson took McQueen 's side and observed acidly that it was the Laird who should be forced to emigrate , at which McQueen respectfully and loyally demurred , knowing that the laird , to quote Boswell , ‘ could not shift for himself in America ’ . |
| 21 | The barrister behaved impeccably , and indicated repeatedly that he was not prepared to concede that he had ‘ offended against [ section 19A of the Act of 1985 ] in a way that would entitle your Honour to make an order . ’ |
| 22 | She had only been there a few minutes , revelling in the multiplicity of objects and fabrics , when a little maid crept in and indicated shyly that she would unpack . |
| 23 | Instead he glanced at her delicate china tea-cup and saucer and marvelled afresh that he had never , in all his life , actually seen her eat . |
| 24 | Mahathir , 66 , issued a call for party unity and hinted strongly that he might stand for another two-year term as UMNO leader in the party 's 1993 elections . |
| 25 | Not long after his arrival in Kentucky , they 'd sat down together one evening with the Harvey family tree and worked out that they were second cousins . |
| 26 | ‘ He says I had the tools , the knowledge , the opportunity and the location , and he looked up those races I rode at Ascot and worked out that I could have had time between the first two and the last to drive to Maidenhead and remove Harry 's car . |
| 27 | He wondered how Olga would–take the news he had for her , and decided grimly that she would not like it . |
| 28 | Julia compared the food of the two parties and decided unhappily that she liked both the dish-of-herbs meal of this evening and also the elaborate deliciousness of avocado mousse , sole and boeuf en croûte of the previous day . |
| 29 | It turned out to be a cutting from the Guardian , and contained much that she wanted to know . |
| 30 | Richard stepped into the flat silently and saw only that they were in a wide hallway before the door closed behind him . |