Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [adv] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hated you so much that I wrote back to him , telling him you had died of typhus fever at Lowood . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At the time I believed that I surrendered completely to him but that he did not surrender completely to me . |
| 5 | It also was emphatic that I reported back to him alone . |
| 6 | The idea of school was so soothing that she hung on to it tightly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was n't that she looked forward to them exactly , but the fury he 'd used to generate was gone . |
| 9 | It was something of a standing joke that she lived up to her Libran indecisiveness . |
| 10 | But there was no answer when she knocked on Louise 's door , nor when she tried another new friend 's door at the far end of the passage , and this was so discouraging that she went back to her own room and cried till her blue eyes wre red-rimmed and swollen . |
| 11 | He strode off and Maggie was so angry that she went back to her room and missed breakfast . |
| 12 | It was imperative that they looked up to him , feared him , respected him , loved him . |
| 13 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 14 | Little wonder that he went back to his post of principal of UMIST . |
| 15 | The cutting that he tossed across to us is part of an article from The Times Educational Supplement . |
| 16 | Only the fact that he rolled on to his side saved him from being brained . |
| 17 | The ‘ foolish years ’ as a Battersea Grammar school boy confirmed certain attitudes that Edward Thomas never abandoned and that he passed on to his children . |
| 18 | To Marquand , MacDonald 's real fault was that he held on to his nineteenth-century principles for too long . |
| 19 | The Poles , through Commissioner General Marian Chodacki , said that what went on to their stamps was their business , and they were genuinely mystified that Danzigers whose ancestors had risen up against the Teutonic Knights should feel offended by stamps that celebrated their victory . |