Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The presenter said she could only recall a few people , and volunteered the story of David Parkin throwing a glass of wine at his wife and how she had watched Maggie Parkin stalk out of the room trying to pretend that nothing had happened . |
| 32 | The Queen commending his work , not only for the pains therein taken , said that nothing had given her so great delectation . |
| 33 | Plays about the fractured consciousness of working-class kids who had fought their way through the old class system , emerged on top , and still felt dissatisfied , still realizing that nothing had changed back where they came from , or where they had arrived . |
| 34 | Once we 'd established that nothing had been left behind Emily went off to catch a bus and I decided that no one would mind if I popped my head round the doors of the suite of rooms which George had occupied . |
| 35 | In the evening , after a snack rather than a meal , I went up to the loft and used the telescope to take a distant look at the island , making sure that nothing had happened to it while I rested inside the house . |
| 36 | In the treaties with the States-General of 1654 and 1667 the English government succeeded in having its claims accepted by its rival ; and so sensible a man as Sir William Temple felt that nothing had ever given him greater pleasure than forcing the Dutch to give way once more on this point in the peace negotiations of 1674 . |
| 37 | Hoping that nothing had gone wrong with the course of her friend 's romance , she turned around on the piano stool as she heard hard , firm footsteps walking along the terrace . |
| 38 | There had been no word from Steve or Maria Lisa and though there was no time element concerned with this contract she was still a little worried that nothing had been accomplished with the airlines and tourist board in Palma . |
| 39 | Yet I discovered that nothing had been disturbed . ’ |
| 40 | But I I 'm I was rather disappointed that nothing had happened . |
| 41 | Others had to put up with less ideal locations , and this led to demand for the feng shui practitioner , whose skill was in improving the landscape by correct siting , ensuring that nothing took place to disturb the flows of energy . |
| 42 | What we will say , if we keep clearly in mind that everything might have been the same up to the instant when the bar came out , and no bar might have come out is that nothing caused the bar to come out . |
| 43 | Miles of sugar cane , followed by miles of flat desert country , all seen through a damp haze so that nothing seemed real . |
| 44 | The management ref refused to talk all the time and after a while it just got depressing , the fact that nothing seemed to be happening . |
| 45 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 46 | And she was going to make sure that nothing stood in her way ! |
| 47 | He thought back over the last few hours , the acknowledged relief of talking to Alice , the knowledge that nothing shocked her , nothing surprised her , that everything he did , if not right in her eyes , was judged by a different standard from the one she rigorously applied to the rest of her life . |
| 48 | He had no really bad faults but you had to be careful that nothing startled him , such as a bird suddenly rising , and on one occasion he did bolt . |
| 49 | There is always a danger of this happening with innovation , of those instigating and leading a new initiative coming to believe that nothing happened in the field before their arrival . |
| 50 | The official media claim that nothing happened . |
| 51 | The caravan , we 'd like , made sure that nothing happened cos we were renting it , and then as we went through a petrol station , on the way home |
| 52 | Stressing these elements of continuity is not to imply that nothing changed . |
| 53 | This , of course , was not her only reward in life , but she made her hour a ritual that everyone observed and she derived a lot of pleasure from it . |
| 54 | For ‘ the game ’ was one that everyone played , and that was all right so long as you took your losses without squealing . |
| 55 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 56 | Her words were followed by applause to indicate that everyone agreed . |
| 57 | Training all technicians throughout the country was an onerous task , but Sandra Hannington , Caroline Mytton and Anthony Dracott ensured that everyone received personal tuition , and the day that the various branches ‘ went live ’ the skills were all put to use . |
| 58 | Victoria clapped her hands and put her head on one side , smiling so winningly that everyone laughed . |
| 59 | He was delighted that everyone enjoyed themselves . |
| 60 | But the weird thing about this supposedly ‘ shock admission ’ is that everyone made the most dreadful fuss when she said she intended to ‘ go on and on and on ’ . |