Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Average scores for each nurse and resident were calculated for both collaboration and satisfaction , and their perceptions of alternative decision choices were assessed by asking them how much they agreed or disagreed that there was no alternative choice in the case of each specific patient . |
| 2 | He heard the chatter of Maude Frobisher 's typewriter in the outer office , the pattern beat that indicated that she had steam up , and with a slight secretiveness he loosened his collar and pulled down his tie and wiped a smear of the vaseline across the offending skin . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you remember , ’ a typical conversation might begin , ‘ that time back in December of '59 when Waimea was unrideable and Greg Noll caught that wave that must have been thirty-foot plus ? ’ |
| 4 | Susan explained as well as she could that at present they would n't want any help , whereupon the visitor bristled and announced that she was ‘ Blunt by name , and blunt by nature ’ , and knew better than to push herself in where she was n't wanted ! |
| 5 | ‘ They failed to do so , ’ said Sherrin , ‘ and Michael fretted and fumed and explained that his immense following of fans would be mortified and he would be shamed . |
| 6 | Outside he stopped and realised that he would have to make his own way back . |
| 7 | Here he dismounted and prayed that whatever spirit had been working within him would continue to work , that this furious feeling of benevolence to all mind — if only a beggar would pass by and he could give him a shilling ! — would not abate , that he ‘ could truly and today start a new life , O Lord , for Thy sake and in Thy name ’ . |
| 8 | The receivers disagreed and said that they needed to raise a further £22,000 and wanted to realise one further property belonging to B and L. |
| 9 | Mr. Mahmoud thought they were worth something like £60,000 , although he admitted that to realise that sum would require careful and skilled marketing . |
| 10 | At first it was part of a dream , which vanished as soon as I woke and knew that I was alone on the broch island , lying on the turf in a sleeping-bag , with my head pillowed on my rolled-up sweater , but seemingly connected with the earth itself , from which , apparently right below my head , came a sound every bit as strange as the mermaids ' song of the seals . |
| 11 | On another occasion an out-of-work blacksmith came and said that " if the parish would not find him a shop to work in , he would make his complaint to a justice " . |
| 12 | ‘ I was training at Leeds yesterday morning and Mr Wilkinson came and said that Blackburn were in for me and I would have to go . |
| 13 | Just as darkness fell a man and a woman came and announced that I was sitting in their seats . |
| 14 | Mrs Crump expressed her gratitude with the eloquence of total silence but with a little look which , as Hope noted and saw that it was noted , signalled that she was pierced to the heart . |
| 15 | While it was held that the dismissal was fair , one of the members of the tribunal dissented and considered that the ‘ BBC had not acted reasonably in dismissing the applicant ’ . |
| 16 | Paleontologists such as Edward Drinker Cope ( 1840–97 ) and Alpheus Hyatt ( 1838–1902 ) argued that evolution was a more purposeful process than Darwin imagined and suggested that Lamarckism would allow living things to play an active role in determining their species ' evolution . |
| 17 | As Ariel 's voice reached through the darkness that had walled up Sycorax in pain , she tried to recall some of the things she had once known ; she murmured and found that when she did so Ariel stopped singing , so she tried not to remember out loud , but to save the retrieved pieces inside her so that the low , scraping voice of the girl she loved would not be interrupted . |
| 18 | The Shah agreed and said that this was his great goal . |
| 19 | Churchill agreed and decided that , regardless of the outcome of the talks about continuing the coalition into peacetime , ‘ any decisions which are needed for the supreme objects of FOOD and EMPLOYMENT in the years immediately after the war must be taken whether they involve legislation and whether they are controversial or not ’ . |
| 20 | At this point , one of Garsinde 's noble followers , unwilling to accept the verdict , arose and demanded that the decision be made not by arbitration but by battle . |
| 21 | Atkins interrupted and said that they certainly could make it stick . |
| 22 | He neither confirmed nor denied that he was a stranger . |
| 23 | In response to Hashemi 's testimony the government of Iran issued a statement which neither confirmed nor denied that such a meeting had occurred : " The nature of the current controversies in the USA is absolutely domestic and the Islamic Republic of Iran sees no benefit to involve itself in this matter . " |
| 24 | Stepping out on to grass she turned and knew that she was one of the few in all history and legend who could safely look a dragon in the eye . |
| 25 | Donaldson turned and saw that Bobo had her arm through the bars , prodding at the basin with a straw and rocking it so that it came close to spilling its contents within her reach . |
| 26 | He turned and saw that the window ledge was about three feet above him . |
| 27 | Helen turned and saw that the Colonel was putting on white clothes on top of his army uniform . |
| 28 | I turned and saw that it was the full moon , framed in a space of jagged glass . |
| 29 | Charity glanced at the clock as she poured and announced that she 'd missed it , Peregrine asking if it mattered a hoot anyway , the wireless these day being so hopelessly uninformative , with nothing more important to impart than news of patrol activity on the Maginot Line . |
| 30 | He fired and believed that it had gone down . |