Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At ten the Duke of Wellington reached the crossroads and , content that nothing yet threatened the Dutch troops , galloped eastwards to find the Prussians . |
| 2 | The answer is that nothing actually went wrong . |
| 3 | It seemed to Peter that everyone else had known his mother better than he had . |
| 4 | Suddenly the section of the audience that was laughing at Italian children flinging spaghetti realised that everyone else had fallen silent . |
| 5 | One person spent illicit hours at Saatchi 's designing our logo ; WTN allowed a lot of things to go through the system — printing , photocopying , artwork ; Gina got the entire staff of her office converted to the cause within weeks and it seemed that everyone else had done the same : soon members ' colleagues , friends and relatives were all helping out . |
| 6 | Opposition MPs claimed that there had been only one small bookmaker in favour and that everyone else had either objected or been neutral . |
| 7 | In my own defence I can say that everyone else got it wrong too . |
| 8 | Now was her chance to let him see the image of herself that everyone else saw . |
| 9 | I suspect he believed that everyone else did too . |
| 10 | Anti-Nazi League festivals , at which The Stranglers were so familiar that everyone probably thought they were just park trees . |
| 11 | Another time I shall talk about taxes , which , as we said in our election broadcast a week ago , we plan to reduce by being careful with your money — another good idea that no-one else had thought of . |
| 12 | Her performance as the would-be star of stage and screen was so convincing that no-one ever suspected her darker , evil side . |
| 13 | I was so surprised that I involuntarily pulled up slightly and I passed over him before I could get him in my gunsight again . |
| 14 | And it occurred to me that I neither knew how many the family owned nor how difficult mine would be to replace . |
| 15 | My book of personal stresses was examined and discussed , and it was revealed that I neither loved myself , nor saw myself as at all worthwhile or even worthy . |
| 16 | Had we sold our house two years ago , we 'd have certainly made an offer on a property that I later realised was quite unsuitable . |
| 17 | Nothing that I later ate in a restaurant was as good as our dinner , the finale being a ‘ tender coconut ’ pudding , a dish I had never eaten anywhere in the tropics . |
| 18 | He used some such expression in the text of an unpublished essay that I later found at Harvard . |
| 19 | On the walls were small pieces of wood that I later learned were the sculptures of one of Signe 's ex-boyfriends . |
| 20 | I just told him that I badly needed five hundred pounds . " |
| 21 | Naturally , when I made this suggestion to St John and his sisters , they protested strongly , and it was with great difficulty that I finally managed to convince them of my firm intention to carry out this plan . |
| 22 | Although I did n't live with Marian for another four years , it was because of her that I finally left . |
| 23 | But it was only when I punched through the thick , creamy crest and the rainbow mist cleared from my eyes that I finally gave up all hope . |
| 24 | I can see this now , yet it was not until nearly ten years after I became a Christian that I finally faced the issue that whatever other influences had been involved in my conversion ( such as my family and friends and the work of God in my life ) there was a sense in which the decision to believe was entirely my responsibility . |
| 25 | Even the fact that I finally found a trickle of scummy water , which let me rinse some of the filth from my boots , did nothing to lift my spirits . |
| 26 | Readers from last month will be glad to know that I finally tracked down the elusive Tequila based Marguerita in a Tex-Mex cafe in Covent Garden . |
| 27 | This would be the day that I finally cracked the North Shore . |
| 28 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 29 | But you have the power to hurt me , Ellie , and because I knew that I masochistically invited more . |
| 30 | In fact , so contemptible did I find his dismissal of my judgement as to what constitutes talent on the football field , that I flatly refused the £200,000 fee they were willing to pay for Colin Webley and let the useless git go on a free transfer ! |