Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a strange coincidence that he made his final sailing to America on the day that his closest friend , Mr Huddlestone , was buried . |
| 2 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 3 | Was Daff pleased with that watch that you got her ? |
| 4 | But , when nothing she could do from inside the car would make it go again , she began to realise in her non-mechanical mind that she had something of a problem on her hands . |
| 5 | right , and I look over to Roger and Roger 's flicking through his notes like this and as you , you were peeping through and he 's trying to find out what , what he 's talking about , they 're not looking at each other and anyway at the end of it , er we went through it and at the end of it he turned round and went how was it , what were you playing at , what was that spiel that you gave it 's in my brief , that 's one of my objections |
| 6 | Saint Basil was so enchanted by this selfless action that he concluded his comments with the words ‘ If things seen are so lovely , what must things unseen be ? ’ |
| 7 | Sure enough , Marc quirked his brow and asked , ‘ You intend to stick to this story that she knew nothing of your financial prospects ? ’ |
| 8 | As has been suggested , it was particularly the perceived threat to the importance of organised religion that they represented which galvanized Mrs Whitehouse and others into action . |
| 9 | On the other hand , it was on this condition that I joined your company : you agreed that should your business ever go public , I would have fifteen per cent of the equity for the nominal sum of fifteen thousand pounds . |
| 10 | I shot a scene on the top of the Old Bailey that everybody thought I could never do . |
| 11 | It was through this involvement and my direct experience of lesbian oppression that I found myself wanting to be a part of creating a new lesbian feminist identity along with other lesbian sisters . |
| 12 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 13 | Eisenhower commented in June that the British were so incensed by this question that he felt they would prefer to lose the oil , even to the USSR , rather than admit defeat . |
| 14 | what would happen if you , let's have a look at G , depends on , what would happen if you were still paying fifty pence , but they gave you four hundred , four hundred grams of chocolate , well you get eight grams per penny , this is another test that you got it the right way up , if it were still only two hundred grams , but you payed more money for it , let's say they charged you a pound , I think you 'd get less grams per penny . |
| 15 | It was at this moment that I decided I must learn to dance , so that I could stay on at the pensione instead of roaming about . |
| 16 | It was from this room that he wrote his first and only communications with the outside world . |
| 17 | And so it was in the light of this suspicion that I examined my friend 's body and my own . |
| 18 | All sorts of little sub-businesses grew after the first month or two and it was at this point that we thought it would be nice to turn it into something more than just a folk club . |
| 19 | Gedge 's studies came to an end and it was at this point that he realised his obsessive interest in music could not be satisfied by part-time activity while he searched for a ‘ proper ’ job . |
| 20 | It was at this point that he found himself face to face with Cinzia Miletti . |
| 21 | It was therefore with some pride that we showed our visitors just how much JMSA had progressed since the company first opened all those years before . |
| 22 | Er , yeah , I think , I think it 's this stress that he felt he was under which led him to panic . |
| 23 | She broke up the partnership with exhaustive cunning , prising Arthur away with weapons of sexual mortification that she knew he would never describe to a living soul , least of all to Fred , because she was Fred 's loved wife . |
| 24 | No , no he did n't , he did n't blow it at all no , it 's not on till four twenty this morning er three forty this morning that he blew it in , in the end . |
| 25 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 26 | You see and that al old aunt that I told you about she always referred this road through as the new road . |
| 27 | It was only when friends accused me of being a pompous , humourless prat that I realised it was meant as a joke . |
| 28 | I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness . |
| 29 | There were , however , some true ministers , typified by the two witnesses of Revelations xx , and it was in this sense that he described himself as ‘ an unworthy witness ’ of the Lord . |
| 30 | Like Terry Venables calling for a pre-match arsenic , the old trouper knows that the best way to disarm your critics is to make ‘ em laugh , but the joke has been wearing a bit thin , and it was with some relief that he swopped his sheepish smile for a satisfied one . |