Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [vb past] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later he became less abusive and rather pathetically said that he kept himself to himself , that the girl was not roaming the streets getting into trouble like the girls who went to school , that company now would be cruel and shameful to an old man who had provided her with a home , protected her and looked after her in every way . |
| 2 | Despite the masterpieces they contain , Italy 's museums are so uninviting and so often closed that they have very few visitors : only the Uffizi is over the one million mark ( 1,048,185 ) , with the Accademia in Venice at a mere 183,474 ( compared with the London National Gallery 's four million visitors ) . |
| 3 | She had continuously offered her services to the RCM committee as a foster parent , but they had never found a suitable child and perhaps also felt that she was too poor to cope . |
| 4 | Leith agreed without hesitation , and only later realised that after that promise there was no way now she could , as Naylor Massingham decreed , ‘ finish ’ with Travis . |
| 5 | She turned back , and only then remembered that someone had started the engines . |
| 6 | I applied for an interview , and shortly afterwards found that I had a new job . |
| 7 | With this , El Cid at once avenged the death of his son and once again showed that any attempt to reconquer Valencia was fruitless while he still lived . |
| 8 | The United Kingdom , in its observations on the preliminary draft , expressed the hope that the Convention would not apply at all in cases in which the address of the person on whom documents were to be served was unknown ; it was unhappy about the possible effect of what was to become Article 15 in such cases and more generally felt that the provisions of the Convention were not apt where the address was unknown . |
| 9 | Moreover it was widely and probably correctly felt that good diplomats were formed by experience rather than by study , by mixing in good society and watching negotiations in progress rather than by poring over documents in archives . |
| 10 | Packages which checked your spelling , for example , in something you 've put on and very politely suggested that you may or may not have got a word quite correctly spelt that you had intended perhaps spelt one way , it came out as another way , and there must be an awful lot of work going on in this area . |
| 11 | The day after that , a man came in and very loudly said that he had no time for God , but he wanted a colouring book for the children of his Greek neighbours , to show his acceptance of them . |
| 12 | His anger was real but so continuously felt that once he had given it adequate ( in his own mind ) expression , it ceased to modify his actions . |
| 13 | We are told to exercise , but then again told that too much exercise can be a bad thing for those of a certain age . |