Example sentences of "and [adv] that [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually , repeating over and over that there had to be a simple explanation , he had summoned up enough confidence to take hold of the note again , and the feather . |
| 2 | A majority of his sample reported that the wife typically performed a distinct range of domestic and child-rearing tasks considerably more often than the husband , and also that she deferred to the husband in more important areas of decision-making . |
| 3 | Later , he had moved away from these classical designs ; he had become interested in Arabic jewellery , she said , and in their techniques of wiring jewels so delicately and invisibly that they moved with their wearer . |
| 4 | Middlesbrough-born Alf has been chief personnel officer with Middlesbrough council since 1974 and before that he worked for Teesside county borough council . |
| 5 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |
| 6 | She had begged Aurangzeb not to spare Dara , and now that she heard of his end she threw a great party in the Imperial harem . |
| 7 | And now that I thought about it , I had vaguely wondered at the ‘ good time ’ I had made on my walk from the cottage , and at the leisurely stretch of time I had had on the island . |
| 8 | When it was midnight they took the body of the Cid , fastened to the saddle as it was , and placed it upon his horse Bavieca , and fastened the saddle well : and the body sate so upright and well that it seemed as if he was alive . |
| 9 | Curiously enough , once Don was on , he took over so naturally and hilariously that I forgot to be frightened , had a thoroughly rumbustious time and breezed through the remainder of the show . |