Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when I was 26 that I realised that was possible |
| 2 | ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped . |
| 3 | Not that I expected any . |
| 4 | ‘ I said that I liked to give the islanders the impression that I lived alone . ’ |
| 5 | Nibbles is an interesting one that I played one night and I was going cor ! |
| 6 | It was at Seto More 's house on Jervis Street that I experienced Chinese hospitality at first hand . |
| 7 | I had to share Miss Miller 's , but I was so tired that I fell asleep immediately . |
| 8 | One night I was so tired that I fell asleep when he was still pushing in and out of me . |
| 9 | Before passing to it , I should say that I heard oral evidence from Mr. Mahmoud , called on behalf of C.T. , and from Mr. Joseph Kasner , the director of the landlord . |
| 10 | So bleak are the prospects that I heard one media journalist muttering that the ITC ought not to be advertising the franchise at all . |
| 11 | The last time that I heard that argument so brazenly presented was by Mr. Neville Chamberlain 's spokesman before the war . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a bit like the cry that I heard last night ! ’ she thought . |
| 13 | I am unaware of any biography in print , and it was for this reason that I wrote this brief account of the life of a truly great man of God . |
| 14 | As a teacher it was very important that I recognised this was the new experience he needed . |
| 15 | The document was in the name of Mustafa Ibn Assaad Shihada Zamzam , Mrs Zamzam 's husband , and when she saw that I recognised this type of British mandate deed Mrs Zamzam 's face lit up as if a great discovery had been made . |
| 16 | And erm and I made the point that I tipped all your lot out of I said what and I had n't let them go in the classroom and I said it 's a new thing but I said they got their coats on they 're too macho to wear them that 's their problem , you know ! |
| 17 | Those of us who witnessed the touch-and-go progress of an ultimately triumphant War and Peace — recorded by Philips for release early next year — feared for the future of the rest , but as Gergiev puts it ‘ that which makes me incredibly proud is that I announced these things and they happened ’ — and , one might add , that inspiration was to hand for rather more performances than the fiercely self-critical Gergiev might admit . |
| 18 | IT was in July that I announced Leeds-born superchef Marco-Pierre White was to marry his second wife , beautiful 19-year-old London model Lisa Butcher , after a whirlwind courtship . |
| 19 | The House will be aware that I announced last month the principles that I am minded to adopt next year in considering whether planned expenditure is excessive or has increased excessively . |
| 20 | The L N E R and L M S. And er I could see then that I knew that superintendent in the private days of the railways . |
| 21 | Mm hear that minute you said that I knew that but it never , it never I mean |
| 22 | And Elizabeth knew that I knew all about her , and she also knew that she was the only person I 'd ever written to for a photograph . |
| 23 | I called , and Crispin answered , so cheerfully that I knew all was well . |
| 24 | I began to feel he was mine , that I knew all about him . |
| 25 | It was years later that I knew all about it . |
| 26 | I felt that this was possibly a chap I should look at — quite apart from the fact that I knew little of him except that he had somehow or other got out of Holland and become the ADC to Queen Wilhelmina at the Dutch headquarters in London . |
| 27 | If we also assume that my neighbour assumed that I knew these facts about the world , and that I interpreted her words according to the co-operative principle , then we can also see why the way she actually phrased her request is not only true and relevant , but also brief and clear . |
| 28 | Not that I knew any foreigners , though I recall thinking that there were two kinds . |
| 29 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 30 | Violet Sangston promised me that I knew most of the other guests . |