Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was then that I made up my mind that r would never leave England , ’ declares Lotte Bray ( Lowenstein ) . |
| 2 | Oh , well that the money that I found out my pocket and the payment granny gave me . |
| 3 | So I closed all those books and it was then that I opened up my eyes and looked around me and said , ‘ Now I 'm reading ’ . ’ |
| 4 | Fabia , not wanting him to think that she hung on his every word , turned away . |
| 5 | When Lou got in the car , the bulky jacket that she wore over her washed denim skirt got in the way of her seat belt and her movements as she struggled to fasten the buckle were jerky and nervous . |
| 6 | He had chosen to ignore the fact that she took out her frustrations on Carla . |
| 7 | Suddenly Isabel was no longer floating , she was falling instead , the sensation so swift and unexpected that she flung up her hands to save herself , and found them clinging to the source of the heat above her . |
| 8 | ‘ Benedict ! ’ she cried , and did not know that she stretched out her arms to him . |
| 9 | For those who find Sue 's perfect BBC voice refined and soothing , it is a shock to learn that she ironed out her Black Country accent while studying modern languages at Bristol University . |
| 10 | end of the island as polar bears ; indeed , the sight of one was so surprising that she picked up her skirts and , with the younger children around her , fled towards the safety of her mother 's kitchen . |
| 11 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
| 12 | I think that the clever way that you worked out your own disappearance has managed to convince not only the police but Simon too . |
| 13 | That they marked up your bought a load of messages , so many |
| 14 | His palm was rotating over her breast , filling her with a delicious lassitude , the unfamiliar feeling overwhelming her in the way that it took over her whole body , his touch vibrating through every nerve and firing every pulse . |
| 15 | It did n't occur to her that it showed off her pretty fair hair to perfection , and did wonders for her figure . |
| 16 | The animal was so tame that it shinned up his leg and dived into a deep pocket . |
| 17 | Dempsey had tried to take on two dogs that he knocked out his tooth . |
| 18 | He accompanied this with a rude gesture — some say it was a noise , others that he stuck out his tongue , or even that he made a sign with his forearm . |
| 19 | At one meeting , Branson became so exasperated that he walked off his own boat and paced up and down the towpath outside to cool down . |
| 20 | In his memoirs , ‘ My Web of Time ’ , the Reverend R H Gallagher notes that he gave up his car in 1939 on the outbreak of war and never had another afterwards . |
| 21 | In the case of Molla Sayyid Muhammad al-Nakib ( Yavuz Celebi ) , on the other hand , Ata'i merely notes that he started off his career as a kasabat kadi , then turned to the medrese system in which he was given a 40-akce medrese and subsequently worked his way up to the Suleymaniye Darulhadis — probably by this time the premier medrese in the empire to which he was appointed in 1012/1604 : he later became kadi of Eyup and then nakibulesraf . |
| 22 | To this unheroic proposal Charles retorted passionately that ‘ rather than go back , I would wish to be dead and buried 20 feet underground ’ , but Murray 's reputation was by now such , and his arguments so well mustered , that he won over his colleagues . |
| 23 | Virginia turned her head lazily where she lay supine on the fine white sand , and shot Guy a smile of such radiance that he flipped off his Raybans and propped himself on his elbows to scrutinise her more intently . |