Example sentences of "and [vb base] that [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other such terms , for example free , as in ‘ then we were free ’ , certainly had reference to the past , but carried direct contemporary reference : a man would say of another , ‘ he is a free man ’ , and mean that he took no orders from a superior ; and a man ( asked about his own occupation ) might say with some pride that he was a ‘ free Zuwayi ’ ( zuwayi hurr ) , and imply his condition was closer to the old days than that of most of those he saw around him . |
| 2 | It would , she felt , atone for the things she had said and mean that she did not have to talk to Julia about them . |
| 3 | The fire was so small and mean that it gave no warmth at all . |
| 4 | There was a terrible urge within her to just run away and hide , curl up into a tiny ball and forget that she had made such a stupid , stupid mistake by allowing herself to fall in love with someone as ruthless and cold as Luke Denner . |
| 5 | Hugh 's mother , climbing out of her taxi with a zip bag full of baby clothes , heard the laughter and wondered if she should contact Hugh in wherever it was and suggest that he came home . |
| 6 | Some try to explain the miracles away and say that they did not happen . |
| 7 | Would I one day show people this jacket and say that it had been a lovely afternoon in Central Park when he gave it to me and , in closing , would I say that as he disappeared into the trees , I never saw Oscar Wilde again ? |
| 8 | Dickey had rebelled against his black clothes , until he was told that it would be naughty to mamma not to put them on , when he at once submitted ; and now , though he had heard Nanny say that mamma was in heaven , he had a vague notion that she would come home again tomorrow , and say that he had been a good boy and let him empty her workbox . ’ |
| 9 | Afterwards he got in touch , not to sign me but to offer encouragement and say that he liked the album . |
| 10 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 11 | Slowly she began to come back to reality , and realise that she had been entirely at his mercy . |
| 12 | Finally may I thank all those who supported the event which saw five main line steam locomotives operating over a preserved main line and hope that they found their visit enjoyable . |
| 13 | ‘ All I could do , ’ he drawled , ‘ was keep talking , just keep telling you who I really was , what really went on inside my head , and hope that you sensed the barriers coming down very slowly for you to get in and say it . |
| 14 | Mandy had shaved several years from her life , and put that she 'd spent her last few summers working as a waitress at the Banff Springs Hotel . |
| 15 | Her sympathy for Mrs Wallington helped her to ignore the realisation that it was an enormous relief to be away from Anthony and with people who produced an atmosphere of such calm and ease that she felt immediately at home with them . |
| 16 | Would it not have helped British farmers if he had said that he was determined to support us and ensure that we succeeded ? |
| 17 | The prize for the winner , was to share her next dinner , and ensure that she had a good time . |
| 18 | Editor , — Zaid P Shehab and Ahmes L Patior describe the papillary lesion of the hard palate in the photograph on the Minerva page as a condyloma acuminatum and imply that it arose as a result of orogenital intercourse . |
| 19 | And if she did , she would look into Carrie 's mind with her witch 's eyes and know that she knew that it was Mrs Gotobed weeping upstairs , and that she was remembering what Mr Evans had said . |
| 20 | ‘ Please try and remember that I did n't create the situation you 're in but I do have more experience of it than you do . |
| 21 | Her knowledge of Samoa was based upon what a group of adolescent girls thr told her , through an interpreter , and what can only be called , er , chit-chat and gossip that she picked up from missionaries ' wives and people like this . |
| 22 | Some have called him a drunkard and assume that he saw puce poetry instead of pink elephants . |
| 23 | I give the hon. Gentleman the benefit of the doubt and assume that he did not hear what I said , not once but twice , perhaps because of the noise coming from his hon. Friend the Member for Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley ( Mr. Foulkes ) , seated beside him , who referred to 236 admissions . |
| 24 | I was a flying boy , came in here and all of a sudden was involved in an operation that , that was er quite intense erm the , the noise of the aircraft erm the erm hustle and bustle that we went through , the , the briefings and the er experience of , of erm having a meal that could 've been your last meal . |
| 25 | And then , after putting the note on his bed for him to read when he came back for his rest and covering it with the undyed hessian bedspread in case their child saw it , she would sit down and try to wring words out of the sleepy little boy at breakfast before he went off to school , and find that she had an empty morning in which to worry about what she had written . |
| 26 | He 'd check it and find that she 'd left . |
| 27 | Anybody that could read Dispatches and believe that I did n't suffer anything , I do n't know what they 're reading . |
| 28 | He went across to it , still thinking that it was n't too late to back out and close the door behind him and pretend that he 'd never even been in here . |
| 29 | Gatsby decides to take the blame and pretend that he had been driving and take whatever punishment comes , which in the end meant that he was shot by the dead woman 's husband . |
| 30 | Or should he turn desire aside and pretend that there had never been that brief , blinding flare of longing between them ? |