Example sentences of "that it [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now my intimations of the complicity between The Fat Controller and my mother grew into the utter certainty that it extended even into these murky areas . |
| 2 | The envoys — I do not know by what trickery they were deceived [ here Nithard bursts out into the first person ] — thus increased Lothar 's share of the regnum so that it extended as far as the Charbonnière . " |
| 3 | Instead of kicking the ball high so that it splashed down into a lake and bounced backwards , as Going did on that ludicrous day , the Australians and New Zealanders took advantage of the wide open spaces in sevens and kicked long , flat balls which stopped dead in the water . |
| 4 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 5 | He was sure it had been there every night since , and Mrs Masters turned out to be equally confident that it had also been there during the day . |
| 6 | To be fair , Same-Lamborghini UK did say that it had n't had any complaints about lifting capacity here . |
| 7 | Now he told me , that night we got so drunk , that it was because of you that it had n't happened . |
| 8 | Katharine replied that she had done shoulder-in and hand had a go at half-pass , but that it had n't been very successful ! |
| 9 | And then , six weeks after the funeral , he had suddenly found himself able to believe that it had n't happened , not in that way , and that the whole horror was a childhood fantasy . |
| 10 | Taking up an oil-can she went out and towards the old outbuildings , to the door next to the one leading into the barn and , moving it , she found that it had n't been oiled . |
| 11 | She took a step backwards , and suddenly he realized that it had n't been easy for her to come here . |
| 12 | It admits that it had n't expected to be in this line of work so long , having thought Unix 's compatibility issues would have been resolved years ago . |
| 13 | Hewlett told Electronic News that it had n't seen any fall-off of interest in the HP9000 Series 1200 machines it buys OEM from Sequoia , but if it did , it could ‘ take over what it needed , whether that 's technology rights or manufacturing rights or whatever . ’ |
| 14 | Clara pointed out that it had n't been donated by her father in the first place , but by Aunt Doris , as birthday presents , over the past seventeen years . |
| 15 | I decided it was just because she had n't mattered that it had n't been worth shocking her . |
| 16 | The black paint on the body was already peeling from the heat , though the Doctor guessed from the depth of the dust layer that it had n't been there more than a couple of days . |
| 17 | The house was n't run-down , either , but there were touches here and there betraying the fact 64 that it had n't been lived in for a couple of years ; the windows that were n't shuttered were n't clean , and there were weeds pushing up through the gravel . |
| 18 | Pity that it had n't extended to something better than this undersized diesel-driven power supply . |
| 19 | There was a long pause and then , somewhat reluctantly , Cassie said : ‘ I did n't realize that it had n't happened yet . |
| 20 | The taxi ride from the airport to the little village where she was staying , only six kilometres from Nice , had been uncomfortable because the air-conditioning in the car had broken down three days before her arrival and was waiting to be repaired , and all in all her last vestiges of good humour had finally bitten the dust as she 'd stood in front of the house and realised that it had n't finished being built . |
| 21 | When he satisfied himself that it had n't , he turned to Larsen . |
| 22 | The waiter brought the champagne and thumped it around in a bucket of ice to persuade us that it had n't come out of the refrigerator . |
| 23 | I thought it was just like Commentating that it had n't |
| 24 | That was n't so difficult , was it ? ’ he said , and , when Caroline admitted that it had n't been , he said that in that case , would she please agree to do another private showing in mid-afternoon ? |
| 25 | On Sept. 24 the Deputy Prime Minister , Tariq Aziz , justified the detention of the team , saying that it had wrongfully seized personnel records . |
| 26 | It was built so very near the sea that it had narrowly escaped being carried away in high tides , and doubtless would have been altogether afloat but for its having a foundation of some two feet and a half of stone . |
| 27 | The idea that Stamford was the centre of Mercian government was invented by William Stukeley in the 1730s from his belief that Alchfrith had held his court here and that it had formerly been Hengist 's town . |
| 28 | The third was heading for Isengard , to alarm Pippin on its way with the thought that it had somehow been despatched for him ( 11 , 204 ) . |
| 29 | The parish priest of Brackenstown , Swords , County Dublin , distributed a newsletter at all masses on Ascension Thursday , 22 May — though before he had read Archbishop MacNamara 's guidelines on how to conduct the campaign — claiming that no-fault divorce was first introduced by Nazi Germany and that it had since wreaked ‘ more havoc on the Allied countries than any German army or air force ever did ’ ( Irish Times , 28 June 1986 ) . |
| 30 | Jenjin told Rostov that Burun had broken Nogai 's wrist during an argument five days earlier , and that it had just been suggested that if his plan went ahead he might get the other one broken as well . |