Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I was so surprised that I followed him without a word .
2 Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it .
3 You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ?
4 You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs .
5 ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’
6 Not that I knew anything about the area of course .
7 Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago .
8 It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show .
9 I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark .
10 I started off at the s at the start I was er I was getting mouth ulcers , and then well I did n't get them to the severity that I got them with the sulfasalazine
11 Yeah , I never though of that and I doubt if I get it now , all I think was well I know that I got it in the magazine rack
12 But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments .
13 Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend .
14 It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’
15 It was n't until my second year that I told anything like the truth about my father .
16 I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime .
17 Whenever I have met him since , he has invariably reminded me that I taught him about the business !
18 As my husband was then a consultant there , and involved in research in rheumatology , it was only natural that I joined him in the research field .
19 Does Mike have some er Georgian Hotel , look at that Christmas jokes , Daddy , Eddie 's broken my new dog how did he do that I hit him on the head with it Why is Father Christmas unemployed ?
20 ‘ He claims that I employed him as an assistant in order to find him a real job . ’
21 IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere .
22 I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good .
23 I have to confess that I walloped her with a newspaper but I did n't touch her . ’
24 In return she sent me her third and latest novel , A View of the Harbour : and it was then that I recognized her as the author of At Mrs Lippincote 's .
25 And we saw that in the calculation that I gave you at the end of last week 's lecture .
26 ‘ I blame it on the fact that someone linked me with the US government , ’ he says .
27 It was then that she told me about the hysterectomy . ’
28 She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that !
29 Ronni smiled a small smile , grateful that the subject of Jeff and Silvia had been left behind , and enjoying , for once , the fact that she had him at a disadvantage .
30 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 .
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