Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was strange , too , Anne thought , that everyone got on with their normal lives , in spite of the constant raids and disturbed nights , and had become used to seeing servicemen in so many different uniforms thronging the streets and the cinemas , and in the public houses she was sure , although she had never been in one . |
| 2 | ‘ I hated you so much that I wrote back to him , telling him you had died of typhus fever at Lowood . |
| 3 | I 'd study too , so that I knew more about everything than the cleverest professors . |
| 4 | ‘ You should be furious that I ran out on you at such an important time . ’ |
| 5 | Not that I thought much about it , why should I ? |
| 6 | My idea — I admit that I came up with it only this morning — is that the entire transaction involving the definition of the terms of reference for the study for the consultants should then become public property and not an enclosed relationship with the promoters . |
| 7 | I have never forgotten that I came home to my wife and said : ‘ There 's a young man working with us and I 'm sure he is going to be a big star . ’ |
| 8 | I suppose that bearded bloke must 'ave dropped it , I suppose I must 'ave picked it up without thinking and that I went off with it in an absent-minded way . |
| 9 | and I was upset and I thought it was just that but no , it was about two weeks before that I went down with it . |
| 10 | I was pleased he had n't seen the note or the tears that I left behind on my Granny 's face . |
| 11 | I regret the fact that the hon. Member for Livingston saw fit not to answer the challenge that I laid down to him , just as he has not answered any of the challenges that I have laid down to him today , and that he has also seen fit to put the hon. Lady , on her first outing today , into a rather difficult position . |
| 12 | ‘ There are two reasons why I wanted to be sure that I met up with you after school today . ’ |
| 13 | My precious work , my mainstay that I carried everywhere with me — even into hospital — was about to be taken away . |
| 14 | At the time I believed that I surrendered completely to him but that he did not surrender completely to me . |
| 15 | I would wager that he goes so far as to say that I broke down in his room , stuttering out the words of my so-called confession between chokes and tears , unable to speak properly . |
| 16 | ‘ I must tell you that I quarrelled violently with your father once . |
| 17 | Drivers and conductors had to wait three years , they had to be employed three years before they were accepted into the pension scheme but you know , believe me I 'm glad that I paid in for it . |
| 18 | And I tell you anoth another thing that I find that I blocked out from my mind sometimes , that 's the sound of central heating , particularly fan assisted heating . |
| 19 | It also was emphatic that I reported back to him alone . |
| 20 | I FEEL it is time that someone spoke out about our appalling refereeing standards . |
| 21 | The idea of school was so soothing that she hung on to it tightly . |
| 22 | It was true that she worried more about her mother now she was living near by than she had when she was living in the Tuscan hills , but that might only be because of the possibility that she would call without warning . |
| 23 | I heard that she lost one baby as well , and I do know that she suffered badly with her legs , varicose veins , I believe . |
| 24 | BELVILLE : I have often observed in married folks that the lady soon grows careless in her dress , which to me shows a slight to her husband that she had not to her lover . |
| 25 | When she 'd finished she got her bag and anorak , checking that she had enough in her purse for bus fare , and let herself out the kitchen door . |
| 26 | It was n't that she looked forward to them exactly , but the fury he 'd used to generate was gone . |
| 27 | She held out her hand , and as he took it , he took off his glasses , so that she looked directly into his dark eyes , realising with a start that they were very beautiful and rather disconcerting . |
| 28 | Oh , dear heavens , had Naylor , by seeing she was hurt , seen too that she cared deeply for him ? |
| 29 | From the beginning she had never tried to pretend that she was in love , although she was very fond of him , and Fred had told her he was happy that she cared enough for him to become his wife . |
| 30 | It was something of a standing joke that she lived up to her Libran indecisiveness . |