Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and so divided it that the remainder went to the husband to take up the one thousand one hundred and sixty five . |
| 2 | She merely told him that the book bore a crest , an embossed crest of a hawk . |
| 3 | No , she only told me that the other day yeah she is |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Angered when he heard that Louis and the Young King had deserted him , the news none the less convinced him that the cause was lost . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm hoping to see something of Czechoslovakia while I 'm here , ’ she replied , but as it suddenly struck her that the silence emanating from Ven Gajdusek was decidedly chilly — and since the last thing she needed was to be bad friends with him if he objected to Lubor Ondrus flirting with her on his time , ‘ But now I must return to my hotel , ’ she added . |
| 7 | But what finally convinced me that the emission was real was that the spectrum of the emitted particles was exactly that which would be emitted by a hot body , and that the black hole was emitting particles at exactly the correct rate to prevent violations of the second law . |
| 8 | Vincent Skinner , the Writer of the Tallies , complained that ‘ the distraction I have had about quarrels to my place have hindered me much and now so utterly discouraged me that the service I intended to have done I could not . |
| 9 | We were observed only by an old man and two buffalo boys , who eventually informed us that the eels do n't eat rice , only live food . |
| 10 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 11 | Austen Chamberlain stiffly told them that the meeting was unprecedented and irregular , but it was left to Birkenhead to denounce them all for impertinence , stupidity and disloyalty . |
| 12 | It specially pleased him that the bishop encouraged him , in the midst of all the parish chores , to keep time for hard study . |
| 13 | AN OLD gentleman once told me that the two things that caused the greatest rural rows were the Church and fox-hunting . |
| 14 | Someone who has been training horses for years once told me that the most important thing is to keep your youngster ‘ thinking forwards ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Somebody once told me that the network was long-distance lorry drivers … ’ ponders Paul . |
| 16 | It was enough to daunt most people , but she once told me that the only thing that dismayed her was sorting out their incredible mass of luggage , making sure that the right things went by the right route and that nothing was left behind . |
| 17 | It hardly surprised her that the goldfish pool had spread so much . |
| 18 | Immediately there was a loud laugh of relief from the guests , who at once took it that the child had come to terms with her charges ' ultimate fate . |
| 19 | a very able man in business matters , but unfortunately lame ; he had to support himself on a crutch , in addition to which the dark glasses he wore to hide some defect in his eyes , did not improve his appearance ; altogether it always struck me that the prominence of position he seemed to claim was undesirable . |
| 20 | When I was in performance of my duties , he distinctly told me that the Prince would be poisoned . |
| 21 | I also told her that the supervisor had asked us to oil our own machines that morning . |
| 22 | Seddon also told me that a team of telephone engineers had already started work to improve the service to Foulness . |
| 23 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 24 | Our research also told us that the Student 's Book had to be in colour , so we took out the pictures and began again — using two pictures instead of one wherever possible — so that we stay up to date with the latest modifications to the Interview , Paper 5 . |
| 25 | And I think I believed , or tried to believe , him when he repeatedly told me that the restrictions he placed upon me were for my own good . |
| 26 | ‘ They also informed me that the new Social Fund computer system , to be introduced in 1993 , would automatically perform these transfers . ’ |
| 27 | Two visits to Oakwell , incognito , also persuaded him that a more immediate priority , to move away from the lower reaches of the Second Division , is realisable . |
| 28 | Although it struck him as being perfectly right and natural to tear a seven-year-old boy away from his parents and send him ‘ home ’ to be educated , it also struck him that the English public school system was iniquitous , a hotbed of beatings and buggery . |
| 29 | This really assured me that the plant was one of the safest . |
| 30 | However , on his belated homecomings , he indirectly reassured her that the needed person did return m- the end . |