Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the trucks failed to appear and they learned that talks will be held today with the telecommunications consortium . |
| 2 | I stopped working because I decided that the only way to make it was to go full time . |
| 3 | But one morning I came to play and I found that my clubs were not there ( they had been stolen ) I then had to go through the long task of making a claim to the insurance company to try and claim some money to replace the clubs I had lost . |
| 4 | Now at this stage er it is the plaintiff 's case that Mr er considered that this caused major financial problems , because the property at Frinton was simply not one that was open to him to offer as security , it was clear that the bank would now as he saw it , on the deal that he understood that he 'd struck and he knew that without the bank 's help he would not be able to er proceed with this purchase and operate he business in the way he had wished to . |
| 5 | The S.N.M. declined to attend and it seems that General Aidid did not do so either . |
| 6 | Then her eyes slowly began to focus and she realised that they had n't just been tossed on to the bed . |
| 7 | After several brushes with the law , which included a term of imprisonment for supplying heroin and the temporary taking into care of her children , she began to shoplift as she felt that she was less likely to receive another custodial sentence if she was caught . |
| 8 | George 's wits began to return and he realised that he would have soon passed from sleep to death , if Elizabeth had not found him . |
| 9 | But anyway , we jumped to it and started to jive and I decided that we were quite sympathetic and we got along quite well — a similar sense of humour , and lewd attitude towards women — we just basically got along well . |
| 10 | But we started to chat and I thought that , in spite of the rotten conditions , there might be some fun in it after all . |
| 11 | Indeed the Court of Appeal in Phekoo expressed the opinion that it only applied to rape but I hope that one might interpret that to mean ‘ rape-like offences ’ , that is all offences where the mistake in question relates to a circumstance qualified by mens rea . |
| 12 | But I did argue when she insisted that we remain separated while on the planet . |
| 13 | He did say before he went that I would never see my son again . |
| 14 | I asked the Corporal why he had saluted and he explained that it was because the Legion was the senior arm of the French Armed Forces . |
| 15 | As he spoke his eyes had fallen and she knew that from the centre of each perfectly round breast a peak jutted , lifting the thin material of her shirt . |
| 16 | My attackers had scattered and I assumed that a teacher was approaching along the corridor . |
| 17 | She had suspected in Lucca , all those months ago , that Mrs Browning no longer cared for her as once she had done but she saw that it was worse than that : she was a nuisance , plain and simple . |
| 18 | Fleischmann replied that with hindsight that might be true but ‘ in the situation we were then in , we were obliged to tell the university of the work that we had done and they perceived that they were obliged to go for patent protection at that time . |
| 19 | But there was something Forster had said before he died that Delaney had to check out first . |
| 20 | PETER BOOTH , of St Hilda 's Parish , Wythenshawe , again ran to help when he learned that St Bonaventure Group of the Catholic Handicapped Fellowship were desperately in need of funds . |
| 21 | I HAD to cry when I saw that blind singer Lennie Peters is fighting cancer . |
| 22 | We can not sell the property in Kent to Mr Cooper as we had hoped and I fear that unless I go down there myself the business will languish . |
| 23 | Some good thing had been voiced , and Wilde had remarked that he wished that he had said it — and was then told : . |
| 24 | Viscount Dilhorne , whose speech was concurred in by Lord Donovan , Lord Pearce , Lord Diplock and Lord Cross of Chelsea , after stating the facts , and expressing some doubts as to what Mr. Occhi had meant when he said that he ‘ permitted ’ the taxi driver to take £6 , continued , at pp. 631–633 : |
| 25 | The IMF had stated that it anticipated that the balance-of-payments deficit would increase during 1989 and would be worsened by capital outflows from the country and a deteriorating trade balance . |
| 26 | The job was n't arduous , but she knew that gradually she was taking on much more than the advertisement had suggested and she sensed that the main anxiety of their life was whether she would stay . |
| 27 | But they adamantly refused to listen when I insisted that someone had been trying to kill me . |
| 28 | Still the Japanese refused to surrender and it appeared that the war might drag on for months , even years , at terrible cost . |
| 29 | Rex refused to cooperate when he realized that what Minter was really looking for was a scandal — any scandal . |
| 30 | And er she erm she said , I know what you wanted to say and I appreciate that you find it difficult to put it into words |