Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He confessed that everyone trusted him now , as they had done in the old days . |
| 2 | The experience was painful enough to ensure that no-one did it again ; it simply was n't worth the risk . |
| 3 | It was years later that I realised I really would have to tackle it , but I found it was much easier than I had expected . |
| 4 | I am not sure now if I ever proceeded to knock ; it is quite possible , given the alarming nature of what I heard , that I judged it best to withdraw altogether . |
| 5 | Then I saw Mr Shepherd — and he looked so — so strange that I kissed him too . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I would have thought that I knew him fairly well , but in writing the lyrics I found depths I had never contemplated . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Why have I always felt that I knew you before ? ’ |
| 8 | And , though I hate to admit it , the fact that I saw him differently was Sophie 's doing . |
| 9 | I had tried hard to destroy all feelings of love for him , but now that I saw him again , I could not stop myself loving him . |
| 10 | It was n't until much later that I saw it metaphorically . |
| 11 | But I feel I should return just a moment to the matter of my father ; for it strikes me I may have given the impression earlier that I treated him rather bluntly over his declining abilities . |
| 12 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 13 | Its complete lack of any taste was so nauseating that I spat it out and decided to eat the rest of the bread by itself I was finishing this when there was the sound of boots in the passage again . |
| 14 | ‘ She was so bad that I thought it well to have oxygen administered ; this I procured from Blake , Edgar 's . |
| 15 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
| 16 | She thought , Now he 'll say what he was going to say last night , except that I made it hard for him , I was so unloving , so unresponsive . |
| 17 | I 'm sorry that I told you now . |
| 18 | But I accidentally hit Jason full on the jaw so hard that I knocked him over . |
| 19 | Er , I am mindful chairman that I embarrassed you acutely at the end of education meeting on Friday , erm , and I know that I , I have a circumstance coming up in February , where I have a child who is unexpectedly on a training day , erm , on a day where I actually have two meetings of this council , now either I get substituted , or we arrange for a one off carer situation . |
| 20 | But you must believe that I kept you here not because I wanted to , but because I believed it my duty to those whom God ( or , well , the Company anyway ) has placed in my care . |
| 21 | The fact , though , that I discovered it not in any yellowing vanity book of my own but among the vast volumes of newspaper clippings maintained by Dick Crossman was marginally encouraging . |
| 22 | She had become obsessed with Eliot and his work at the age of fourteen , after she had heard a recording of " The Journey of the Magi " : " It was extraordinary , " she said later , " that I felt I just had to get to Tom , to work with him . " |
| 23 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |
| 24 | It is exactly the sort of corkscrew I always use but the room was so dark and I so flurried that I drove it in sideways and broke the cork . |
| 25 | However , it is not about your father that I summoned you today , it is about you . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 27 | In the end , my knitting was getting so chewed with all the knitting and unravelling that I took it off on waste yarn . |
| 28 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
| 29 | ‘ That sound changes as I go from the window that I picked it up in , to a different window , or to the desktop . ’ |
| 30 | I felt he maintained a distance and because of that I found him more difficult to approach than Dalglish if there was anything I needed to discuss . |