Example sentences of "[that] [adv] [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doctor was so used to being called in a second time to cope with the results of his first visit that eventually he dug in his heels and advised against another jab dealing with whooping-cough . |
| 2 | I thought that perhaps something came through the air-vent , down the bell-rope and on to the bed . |
| 3 | ‘ In ninety-three legislative words , ’ he said , ‘ the safeguards gained after centuries of constitutional struggle , even bloody civil wars , were swept aside by a provision that said simply that hereafter anything enacted by the EEC automatically became British law , annulling any laws which were inconsistent without debate . |
| 4 | The result was that yesterday they turned on us for information as to the number of men to be dropped , the weight of stores and the mileage and so on , all of which was essential for them to know if they were to fit out the aircraft properly . |
| 5 | A presidential authorization for a covert operation , a ‘ mini-finding ’ , was rushed out at the end of November , so secretly that hardly anyone knew of it ; this made good what had happened already , which was not supposed to have happened at all . |
| 6 | The same writer also states : " The Bishop of Rochester remained at Hailing and Trottescliffe , where he conferred orders in both places and at certain intervals , " he continues , " this mortality swept away so vast a multitude of both sexes that none could be found to carry the corpses to the grave , men and women bore their own offspring to the Church and cast them into a common pit , and from these pits came such a great stench that hardly anyone dared cross the cemeteries . " |
| 7 | I can not doubt that this peculiar method which gave such valuable results in water-colour , influenced Cézanne to apply it at least to the early stages of his oil paintings , and that gradually it grew to be his habitual practice in the succeeding period . |
| 8 | I thought that now she belonged to me , she could not marry Fabien . ’ |
| 9 | In the night they had moved , so that now she lay with her arm about his waist , her body pressed so tightly against his back that it would have taken a can-opener to prise them apart . |
| 10 | She felt that really he sang for Mrs Hunnard . |
| 11 | He kept two bags always packed , one for hot climes and one for cold , so that immediately he heard of an eruption he could board the next available ship . |
| 12 | There was general agreement that current initiatives to meet those problems were ineffective , that there was little consultation with the people of West Belfast and that frequently they amounted to little more than cosmetic exercises . |
| 13 | I was conscious that here I belonged to a community with roots in the distant past and a distinguished place in British history . |
| 14 | I whisper very quietly , thinking that maybe he slept through it all . |
| 15 | Would he want to know that everywhere one turned in this Golden Age of the future , there was war and violence and man 's dreadful inhumanity ? |
| 16 | Having now met each other , it seemed that everywhere I went on camp I would come face to face with him , usually with his entourage of armourers fanning out behind him . |
| 17 | It is said that initially it consisted of a small number of ex-convicts brought together and controlled by British intelligence . |
| 18 | With little enthusiasm for the day , Fabia got out of bed and , mulling over her problems and the fact that anywhere she went from now on would have to be on foot , she pattered to the bathroom to take a shower . |