Example sentences of "[vb past] that [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nick , by this time leading a glamorous social life in England with his girlfriend Arabella ( Ari ) Campbell MacNair-Wilson , daughter of a Conservative Member of Parliament , proposed that since nobody wanted a purely business party for journalists and other promotional appendages , each of the children should invite their own friends . |
| 2 | Lee gave him a shove , there was some pushing and tripping up , Kevin fell over into Dean 's lap and a woman at the other end of the car shouted that if they did n't behave themselves she 'd find someone at Goldhawk Road who would make them . |
| 3 | Although we were suitably impressed by the mere twelve-footer caught in Likangloe , the hunters promised that before we left they would take us into what was known locally as the " Death Cave " to find the really big pythons . |
| 4 | Throckmorton also claimed that Sir Thomas More [ q.v. ] had once sent for him and promised that if he continued ‘ in the same way ’ and was not afraid , he would ‘ deserve great reward from God ’ . |
| 5 | Wright ( 1978 ) demonstrated that if we interpret the working class to mean manual workers who lack property in the means of production and are exploited ( have surplus value extracted from them ) , then only a fifth of the contemporary USA population fits the definition ! |
| 6 | in the local press joked that if he had done all the write-up said then he must have joined the police when he , was about 7 ! |
| 7 | The villagers often joked that if she met a German tank on the road to Berkeley , she would order it off the road and pass on as if nothing had happened . |
| 8 | You joked that as you kissed me deeply you could taste the tang of my lunchtime Cumberland sausage . |
| 9 | I 've moved that , I moved that so he did n't knock it over cos he were knocking it with his tail . |
| 10 | She very much doubted that when she got home , if she ever did , she would think it worth asking her mother . |
| 11 | But things started to change when a friend mentioned that since I had lost a little weight whilst being away on a beach holiday with my boyfriend ( not deliberately , just through not eating much in the heat of Spain ) several people had said how I looked better . |
| 12 | And then , one day , out of the blue , Jean-Claude mentioned that if he had a piano he might take pupils . |
| 13 | And one study looking at the experiences of black teenage mothers found that although they had begun using contraceptives as much as white girls , some had been persuaded by their boyfriends to stop using them . |
| 14 | When it was Spencer 's turn he found that although he had quite a few hours in his ‘ Fury , the Spit was a harder aeroplane to fly . |
| 15 | Danzig found that whether it liked it or not , its life was dominated by Poland . |
| 16 | For example taking out the forward looking infra-red , infra-red search and track , taking out the the M I D S , the multiple information distribution system and certain aspects of the er defensive aids , to see what impact that would have and we found that if we removed any one of those erm then we would either come down to parity against potential threat or possibly er inferiority and that was really the supporting evidence to retain the full capability . |
| 17 | In carefully structured interviews on the concept of God with three and four-year old children she found that if she began by asking them to distinguish between objects which were man-made and ones which were natural and then to speculate about origins in each case , a majority of the responses referred to the natural objects being made by God or an unknown power ( almost half and half responses on this ) . |
| 18 | She found that if she turned her back he was more likely to put food in his mouth . |
| 19 | In union negotiations , for example , I always found that if you had a heart to heart with the opposition , the single leader , you could probably gain something . |
| 20 | The one that I tend to use most of the time is this one not least , because it only three pounds , and it 's quite affordable but a , again , it 's got a loud sound to it , and I found that if you carry one of these with you and somebody does approach you , you 've always got this in your pocket and you can actually aim it them , cos they do n't know what you 've got in your hand . |
| 21 | People I met never became friends , people never spoke in those days at all , in fact , I found that if you did try to speak they always ran away . |
| 22 | He had not written much since The Complete History of Wimbledon and that book 's rejection by ten publishers ( he had still not heard from The Applecote Press , Chewton Mendip ) had made him a little nervous of putting pen to paper , but he found that if he emptied his mind of everything and forced his hand to fist a biro and then forced that biro across a sheet of paper , some pretty profound and interesting thoughts resulted . |
| 23 | I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration . |
| 24 | I found that if I immersed myself in what I was doing , the people respected my work and usually kept quiet , aware of my concentration . |
| 25 | I found that if I settled down to the tape and the life of Apricot Smith , I became quite comfortable . |
| 26 | I found that if I did this , I felt much better and had the feeling that everything would be all right . |
| 27 | Starting each hymn on the right note was a great problem for most of us , but I found that if I did not think too deeply about this but started off almost instinctively I generally hit something like the right note , thanks to my years as a choir boy in Maidenhead . |
| 28 | After that I found that if I iver was in trouble far from home there 'd always be a Sligo man somewhere to help me . ’ |
| 29 | Sebastian refused to be quashed , then found that as he did n't have what was called a proper income he had problems in obtaining a mortgage . |
| 30 | Katharine found that as she got into the rhythm , so the changes improved . |