Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] that [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly were Mrs White 's brother and sister-in-law who were reported earlier as saying at second interview that they thought she should remain at home ‘ if things keep as they 're going now , and she gets the services she 's getting ’ . |
| 2 | It was n't until my second year that I told anything like the truth about my father . |
| 3 | According to the leading present-day authority on this sector , Professor Supple , it was over the course of the eighteenth century that it assumed its modern form and structure , with agencies and branches , inter-company coordination of premium rates and policy conditions , and averaging of claims . |
| 4 | It was on the evening of the fourth day that she raised her wings and flexed them in the sea-wind . |
| 5 | Turning now to those carers who said in their first interview that they wanted their relative to remain at home , one would expect that those in the action sample would be more likely to have retained that preference than those in the control sample ( assuming that the project has provided extra home care when needed and therefore indirectly or directly assisted or relieved the principal carers ) . |
| 6 | Well I I 'd could n't really swear to anything of that description , but it was it was before the er er old age pensions came out because I remember my Grandmother lived with us and er I remember the first week that she drew her five shillings old age pension . |
| 7 | The British production company Zenith were so impressed by Hal Hartley 's first feature that they signed him up to make TRUST , which we will be screening at the festival . |
| 8 | ‘ It was the first time that he realized there were officers and that they treat you badly because you 're not like them . |
| 9 | It seems to have been about then that he mentioned for the first time that he thought he was being poisoned with acqua toffana ( a notorious Italian poison ) . |
| 10 | Fawcett says that he had noticed scraps of similar material in earlier test runs on the apparatus , but this was the first time that he drew it to Gibson 's attention . |
| 11 | It knew the nights when I was more drunk than others and the first time that I turned my back . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It was only in the last years that you knew us . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I told you in my letter last week that I wanted you to arrange for me to meet him . |
| 14 | The Police were so worried about Davies in the sixth round of the Schweppes Cup last season that they knocked him out by giving him a Saturday shift . |
| 15 | Yet it was only as she was getting Emily ready for school next morning that she forced herself to come to a decision . |
| 16 | It was n't until almost his last breath that he told her of the board beneath his bed and what was under it , assuring her he had saved it for her . |
| 17 | It was not until last year that I achieved my ambition to sail there . |
| 18 | It really does come down to , I do n't know , I mean , every year we play it very honestly and very straight , and we push him in a position where next year , if there is a next year , I think the last time that we played it straight we got clobbered , so let's pay a little bit less , and keep a bit back for when they come round a second time round . |
| 19 | In other words , rats with hippocampal lesions have difficulty in refraining from punished responses because they can not remember what happened to them the last time that they did whatever it was that led to the punishment . |
| 20 | Playing tunes that bring a smile to my face and a sentimental tear to my eye , for the last time that I heard them was the day of the first Gittel 's wedding . |