Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] do " in BNC.
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1 | I was talking to him about that and I got a totally different response from him that I expected did n't mind . |
2 | I tried to be sick in the toilet , but even that I failed to do . |
3 | Then your Inspector took it into his head that I 'd done it . |
4 | But that I 'd done before . |
5 | Not that I 'd done a lot towards it even if she listened to me . |
6 | I said , " Yes " , and I plugged it that I 'd done it while I 'd had Louisa and that 's what I think went in my favour in a way . |
7 | When on Monday before Christmas 1991 I stepped on the scales and found that I 'd done it , I almost died of happiness . |
8 | I th there was , there was one big point that I actually missed out as well that neither of you have picked up on and that was that Maggie actually said that they were having problems with John in school and I should 've come back and , and said well she di she actually said that she was having problems with John , full stop , and I should 've actually come back and , and clarified whether it was at school or not and hence led to the private education and I missed that one completely and realized that I 'd done it afterwards but none of you picked up on that one . |
9 | Referring to complaining neighbours the Hanleys she said : ‘ I just do n't know how they can sleep at night next door because I could n't , knowing that I 'd done that to someone . ’ |
10 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
11 | It was favourably received and I felt that I had done my hitherto neglected ancestor proud . |
12 | It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best . |
13 | Following the work that I had done at the MU on the Circuit Board Fault Diagnostic Aid in connection with my MSc project , 2 members of the staff had gained experience of expert systems : the Chief Technician and a civilian who had assisted me during the project . |
14 | I wrote that I had done so before going to Athos . |
15 | Those who were nervous and struggling with their own feelings did not want to expose their gayness in the way that I had done . |
16 | I detailed my education , A Level results , the particulars of my brothers and sisters , everything that I had done while in the Territorial Army and my minimal brush with the law . |
17 | However , I was in no doubt that I had done the right thing by leaving him . |
18 | After that , I thought my support could perhaps be less , that I had done the work . |
19 | I leafed through the newspapers , glad that I had done those interviews . |
20 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |
21 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
22 | I was in charge of the rummage crew , and feeling that I had done my bit went to find the others . |
23 | I concluded that I had done enough and was getting ready to sidle away when a servant pushed a large bucket of water into my hands and I realised that , under Santerre 's direction , a human chain had been formed . |
24 | In fact 31 of us turned up to support our annual ‘ big day out ’ and enabled me to realise that I had done the correct thing in cancelling the previously booked 20 seater coach . |
25 | I was therefore prepared to take the responsibility of advising him to change his mind , and I was also prepared for him to tell his friends that I had done so . |
26 | Nobody saw anything , and nobody could believe that I had done it . |
27 | ‘ For nearly two years I did nothing , but as I had worked very hard very young , I had no feeling of guilt that I had to do something , because I had already proved that when I wanted to work , I could do it . ’ |
28 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
29 | But I realized that I had to do something pretty dramatic to avoid too serious an accident . |
30 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |