Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was very annoyed over the whole business this end , when it transpired that nobody had any information on the subject either . |
| 2 | It transpired that her family had moved to Tala-Tala and she could n't face the daily ten miles on foot . |
| 3 | It transpired that what this man really wanted to do was to strangle his mother , a desire which was both socially and morally unacceptable and had therefore to be repressed . |
| 4 | It transpired that nothing dramatic had happened since they had left : tests on pairs of scissors at TVL headquarters were getting under way and Hugh Parnham , the third candidate for the Inside Out presenter 's job , had phoned from Scotland to say he would be back in London the next day for an interview . |
| 5 | It also transpired that he had done virtually no mathematics . |
| 6 | Once he frogmarched a knocker out of a press conference , although it transpired that he could hardly wait to see what the victim wrote next . |
| 7 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 8 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |
| 9 | It transpired that he wanted to be able to comment on each question in more depth and indeed some staff did so on separate sheets . |
| 10 | It also proved to be a fall from grace , as it transpired that he 'd stolen millions of pounds from his workers ' pension funds , to pay off mounting business debts . |
| 11 | Afterwards in the Shoulder of Mutton ( Kneeton Park 1 Knayton 1 ) it transpired that he 's in what used to be known as Tin Pan Alley probably the only manager in the Hambleton Combination ( third division ) who 's also been a manager of the Bay City Rollers . |
| 12 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 13 | It transpired that there was a secluded roof on her house where she was wont to sunbathe totally naked . |
| 14 | But anyway it transpired that there were two groups sort of working towards the same end and nobody could work out what sort of erm role each played and it was terrible . |
| 15 | When we had become very curious about why none of the drains had fallen out , it transpired that she was diligently cutting an inch a day off the other end ! ’ |
| 16 | It transpired that she had also been one of a party at the Hall the same day . |
| 17 | They proposed that they became Frankish vassals in return for protection against the expanding might of Abd-ar-Rahman the Ommeyad , who had taken over virtually the whole of Spain . |
| 18 | He therefore proposed that they should be given increased representation in Legislative Councils and that they should be admitted to the administrative services . |
| 19 | Although many officials and newspapers proposed that they be paid a modest salary , only the chief headmen received official remuneration . |
| 20 | When Mrs Orton proposed that they listen to the Queen 's Speech on the radio , Bill 's only protest was to produce a bottle of brandy from his case , open one of his gift books , roll himself a cigarette with gift tobacco , lean back and stare covertly at his son . |
| 21 | It was Diane who proposed that they should go over and take a look at the labs where Jenner had worked and Reynolds agreed , more than a little relieved that they were returning to the main subject ; he was made uncomfortable by Diane 's self revelation and the way in which it had begun to erode his easy preconceptions of her and her ‘ type ’ . |
| 22 | The FMLN on Jan. 21 admitted that investigations had shown that its soldiers had shot the two men and it proposed that they should be tried by an FMLN tribunal with independent participants . |
| 23 | Indeed , it proposed that they be retained and further , than in addition to this unpopular tax there should be a new unpopular tax local income tax — a prospect of little attraction to most politicians . |
| 24 | I proposed that we fish the same swim , which was large enough to accommodate both of us without the risk of crossed lines . |
| 25 | He proposed that we should test things by the evidence of our senses . |
| 26 | Some writers ( e.g. Maslow ) in the sixties and seventies proposed that we could rank these needs into a hierarchy and predict the order in which individuals would try to satisfy their ‘ needs ’ . |
| 27 | By the time the Winterthur show came around in 1990 I thought it would be interesting to exhibit just the paintings and when Nick Serota , the Director of the Tate , proposed that we might put on another retrospective at his gallery I felt more sure of myself . |
| 28 | Mother wept to see Father 's state , and proposed that we set out for Chiguana , the nearest town where we might expect to find a hospital , immediately . |
| 29 | So I went upstairs and proposed that we should do a house-to-house on those two areas . |
| 30 | Er at the last conference er both Kerry and myself buttonholed him er and proposed that we er push it a bit further and er the re upshot of that was that we wrote him a much more detailed letter er on whatever date it was , er first of November ninety three , and we 've now had a er a reply er to that er giving us carte blanche to quote him er w with er a number of er quotations which we 'd drafted and put into his mouth , so er a all the quotations that we 've asked him to approve we can use . |