Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please say that I finally look my age at least ! ’ |
| 2 | Other special Air Force camps were built in different parts of Germany and it was in these that I eventually spent my rime as a prisoner . |
| 3 | ‘ You know that I nearly broke my word to you about drinking just now , McAllister . ’ |
| 4 | Then I whirled , so quickly that I nearly ricked my neck , as I caught a movement at the edge of my vision . |
| 5 | He was one of the people who actually made the series , but I have to say that I never thought his career was channelled in the right direction . |
| 6 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 7 | My main subsequent regret is that I only knew my father from the perspective of parent to child and not from that of adult ( parent ) to adult ( son ) whence different qualities and traits of personality come to be appreciated . |
| 8 | I could n't think of a single thing to say , but dimly realized that I now had my role for the evening ; I had done nothing to bring this off ; but I was to be the identifiable face of the campaign . |
| 9 | You know that I always keep my word . ’ |
| 10 | I must say that I really enjoyed my time in the RAF and I 'm convinced that for National Serviceman , the Air Gunner 's trade was the best way to complete the compulsory Armed Service requirement of the time . |
| 11 | I make sure that I really condition my hair and that 's about it . |
| 12 | And while her eyes went wide at the importance of that statement to the literary world , ‘ It was with no small degree of relief , ’ he continued , ‘ that I personally took my work to my publishers in Prague and , that done , resolved that apart from day-to-day correspondence I would have a whole month off — perhaps longer — and free my mind of anything connected with work . |
| 13 | This doubt of not quite knowing so worried me that I sometimes approached my visualization as if addressing a public meeting . |
| 14 | Maybe the reason for this was that she was vindictively happy not to do anything , and it is the opinion of my sergeant here that she probably hated her husband almost as intensely as the murderer himself did . |
| 15 | Her desperation was now so great that she momentarily forgot his wound , striking out at him blindly . |
| 16 | If that she even knew his address . |
| 17 | But in the same column Beatrice complains that she nearly had her apartment burnt down after casually remarking that artists were rarely able to distinguish between their good work and their bad and therefore only critics could decide upon the value of a work . |
| 18 | There is also implicit criticism of John 's politically committed mother Rosalie ( Olympia Dukakis ) , so busy demonstrating for human rights that she shamefully neglects her son and fails to fill the fridge with enough food for him . |
| 19 | Tonight it had been her turn to give way , but agreeing to spend an hour in the Clarence with Colin and Yvonne did n't extend to any pretence that she actually enjoyed their company . |
| 20 | Daphne treated them all with the same disdain , confiding in me that her one true love was still serving on the Western Front — not that she once mentioned his name in my presence . |
| 21 | His face was an arrangement of harsh lines so discouraging that she almost lost her nerve and backed out . |
| 22 | Their rooms at the Royal Albion Hotel were just a few doors from each other and it was Ken 's job to see that she always had her mug of cocoa before going to bed — and indeed that she was warmly tucked up at the right time for a lady of her years and responsibilities . |
| 23 | Now she was a young widow , dignified but vulnerable , busy but not tastelessly careerist ; she believed that she always put her family first . |
| 24 | This alienates Elizabeth even more , so that she now regards her job as an oasis in a desert of coping with Harry 's lack of direction . |
| 25 | Rachel had become so lost in her thoughts that she suddenly realised her father had been talking to her and she had n't heard a word . |
| 26 | She was thankful that she still wore her cloak . |
| 27 | She went over to the bed , realising with a shock that she still wore her kimono . |
| 28 | Silly really , because her family had no way of knowing that she still covered her head . |
| 29 | She apparently told her , contrary to the impression given in the former interview covered by Document B , that she never condoned her daughter 's going away — which she referred to rather dramatically as a ‘ kidnap ’ — that she did everything she could to bring the matter to the authorities at the time , but ‘ was prevented ’ , that she had certainly never agreed to her daughter living with her brother , that her daughter 's health had suffered alarmingly , and that she never told any social worker that she had agreed . |
| 30 | She was not going to start lecturing him now and , in any case , insisted that she never saw her role in life as a reformer . |