Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] [vb past] that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Such an approach is validated by a UK study which also showed that improvement is most likely if psychopathology is recognised and the pain is not constant .
2 Simon Simon I just saw that hand .
3 In the spring of 1977 I did indeed give birth to a boy who later grew that shock of fair hair .
4 When I worked as a primary school teacher I sometimes retrieved that feeling with a particular clarity , walking between the tables on the hard floor , all the little looms working but needing my constant adjustment .
5 I got a stupid feeling I just moved that pawn again .
6 A lot of it is a matter of hearing : you just start to hear it that way after a while , especially if you listen to a lot of Coltrane and people who really developed that part of the language . ’
7 The political forces which once made that movement move are now enveloped in a catastrophe that has two distinct dimensions .
8 As throughout the tour , Ashenden had observed the opportunist self-seekers at the front of the queue ( as ever ) for the room-keys ; and in the rear ( as ever ) the quieter , seemingly contented souls who perhaps knew that being first or last to their rooms would make little difference to the quality of their living .
9 and whilst , when I was in hospital I always had that feeling that I 'd love to hear the water lapping on a beach , you know and
10 He has had the opportunity to reproduce 430 of the 500 drawings which originally constituted that collection and to mount a touring exhibition over three years : for the first , and probably only time therefore , they will all be seen together right across the world .
11 That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock .
12 Everyone else thought the decisions had been made but in fact we totally re-did that season 's collection in a waiting room at Brussels airport , just the two of us . ’
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