Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the treaties with the States-General of 1654 and 1667 the English government succeeded in having its claims accepted by its rival ; and so sensible a man as Sir William Temple felt that nothing had ever given him greater pleasure than forcing the Dutch to give way once more on this point in the peace negotiations of 1674 . |
| 2 | The general opinion was yes , but certain it was that no-one had ever seen her . |
| 3 | ‘ Though of course before that I 'd already done my bit : I was one of Our Lads , I was an Expeditionary , part of the Task Force that recaptured Maggie 's surrendered popularity . ’ |
| 4 | There was a click and she 'd gone , and I could hardly believe that I 'd ever doubted her as a relay post . |
| 5 | Not that I 'd ever tried it , but , that sort of thing , semolina , and all that , |
| 6 | That I 'd actually done it I suppose . |
| 7 | ‘ That I 'd never seen her from that day to this , of course . |
| 8 | " I told her , " said Mrs Maugham , handing her daughter a plastic butter dish , " that I 'd never seen it . " |
| 9 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 10 | ‘ And I believe that I began then to train myself to listen in the voice of somebody , or look through the outer facade . |
| 11 | I sent him a bundle of clippings that I thought amply documented my charge . |
| 12 | Naturally June could n't understand why it was that I went on cutting her . |
| 13 | I think about it a hell of a lot you know , not with morbid fascination but because everything that I went through gave me an inner strength and I am frightened to lose it . |
| 14 | All I do know for sure is that I woke up loving him . |
| 15 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 16 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |
| 17 | I realized that I had completely forgotten what he sounded like . |
| 18 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 19 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 20 | I could feel him right outside , but it bothered me that I had n't done anything . |
| 21 | Except that I had n't seen him since he lay on his camp-bed and watched me sleeping naked with his beloved wife , the woman I 'd always characterized to him as ‘ sister ’ . |
| 22 | to you on the phone that I had not seen the job and that I said yes alright knowing I had n't seen the job , also that you knew that I had n't seen it and if I did n't agree with it , then I was gon na change it , and I 've changed it ! |
| 23 | Now it seemed fortunate that I had n't ; just as it seemed , though still obscurely , fortunate that I had n't lost my head in other ways when I wrote to her . |
| 24 | Ven uttered , and to her delight confessed , ‘ Well , there was that occasion when , after being disturbed by thoughts of you all night , I rang you at your hotel the next morning in the hope that I had n't disturbed you . ’ |
| 25 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 26 | I admit I remembered then , but I did n't tell you because it would have sounded daft that I had n't told you before . |
| 27 | So , Paul was worried that I had n't put it in straight were n't you Paul ? |
| 28 | I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day . |
| 29 | Never mind that I had n't remembered my birthday either . |
| 30 | There was something enthralling about this scene , the three girls in the circle of insect-laden light , so that I had n't wondered what she was doing and only now did I realise that the girl was a fortune-teller . |