Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also presumably why he 'd sent Feargal off to Wexford , as a joke , because he 'd known damn well that he lived in Slane and that Ellie was likely to meet him again . |
| 2 | Through her own trusting innocence she was alone with a man who 'd stated quite clearly that he wanted her . |
| 3 | By the time the pub had filled enough so that the punters were giving me dirty looks for taking up so much room , I felt I had discovered enough to put two and two together and make five if not six . |
| 4 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll soon find your way about and settle , ’ were his last words after she had protested yet again that she did n't want to stay . |
| 6 | Yet the boy had insinuated so knowingly that the Commander had begun to wonder if perhaps he suffered from lapses of memory . |
| 7 | Before he could get to the specimen , its entrails had decomposed so badly that they had to be thrown away , so it was a gutted specimen that he eventually saw . |
| 8 | All the happenings of the night had mixed together so that he no longer knew whether he had really been woken and heard the Woman 's hushed , hissing voice and the faint News from the radio . |
| 9 | Worse still , she had seen almost immediately that it would be the easiest thing in the world to listen for information . |
| 10 | They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper . |
| 11 | He went off at a steady trot and I thought as I had done so often that there could n't be many noblemen in England like him . |
| 12 | Jenny , her half-sister , eighteen years old and five years younger than herself , had written so positively that she would be at the airport to meet her . |
| 13 | It was the thing she did best , and she had decided long ago that she would study in earnest as soon as she left school . |
| 14 | Last night he had dreamed yet again that the Irishman was doing dirty things in his mam 's bed . |
| 15 | His illness had advanced so rapidly that he was unable to move outside his Beith home to give evidence . |
| 16 | On the plus side , the expedition had proved once again that it was not difficult to penetrate an enemy-held town and carry out a reconnaissance . |
| 17 | They all die , except a 15-year-old who had behaved so badly that he was forbidden to taste what turned out to be deadly toadstools . |
| 18 | At the beginning she had known clearly enough that he was an irrevocably solitary man , and it had seemed to her fortunate to live with him at all . |
| 19 | Yes , of course she had , because Grandmother had known full well that her husband could never have fathered a child . |
| 20 | Jessamy had known straight away that nothing would ever throw her off balance , that she would deal with life 's disasters and crises in a calm , dispassionate way , finally resolving them to her own satisfaction . |
| 21 | She had spoken so softly that she was surprised that he had even heard her . |
| 22 | Albert had spoken so calmly that it made her calm too . |
| 23 | But the pendulum had swung so far that some return to less than enthusiasm was inevitable . |
| 24 | However , he did n't have time now for self-reproach , nor to wonder why Isabel 's seeming betrayal had cut so deeply that he had instantly thought the worst of her , had immediately accepted Matilda 's word though he 'd known how vindictive and spiteful the woman could be . |
| 25 | Not that he would come to her — his manner ever since her remarks about finding a rich man had indicated quite clearly that the sooner they could part company , the better it would suit him . |
| 26 | Lily remembered that she had hoped even then that it was not too late to change … . |
| 27 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 28 | Bevin had met Lionel Curtis in 1938 and had believed ever since that the Commonwealth was the foundation of a new world order . |
| 29 | His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it . |
| 30 | Had it been deliberate Edouard hesitated , unsure ; it had happened so quickly that it was difficult to know . |