Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time Benny realised properly that they were going to live separate lives though in the same city . |
| 2 | It was when the laughter ceased altogether that one had to worry . |
| 3 | Karen , very tired and possibly a little drunk , realised slowly that she had seen him deploy this technique before , at an earlier dinner in the house , and that somehow it was probably quite offensive . |
| 4 | Previous to the Revolution Ras Tafari expected daily that he would be imprisoned which , in his opinion , would have been the equivalent of a death sentence ; and accordingly he confided his will and all his available money to me in order that I should arrange for its transmission to the Bank of England in trust for his children . |
| 5 | ‘ Then when I saw you I realised suddenly that you were just the friend who would help to make it all a success . |
| 6 | He realised suddenly that he had to go to the bathroom . |
| 7 | It was on the tip of his tongue to observe that Burun was no more or less trustworthy than he had ever been , but he realised suddenly that he would be stating the obvious . |
| 8 | Leaving the clinic she realised suddenly that she wanted to go to her garden . |
| 9 | She realised suddenly that she was in the wrong lane , and pulled over sharply on the slippery road . |
| 10 | ‘ He asked especially that I should meet you . ’ |
| 11 | But last time do you remember this time last year it got so that his foot was really puffy ? |
| 12 | Then I got so that I could not be bothered . |
| 13 | Then her mother would graciously conduct half an hour of polite conversation with all these people , who Jo knew were otherwise pretty cool and mostly also pretty sane , and they would all pretend to be interested in whatever dumb thing she said , and laugh if she made any of her awful little jokes and store away any personal information she disclosed so that they could tell it to their friends the next day and make it absolutely clear that they were on intimate terms with a really big star . |
| 14 | The little reporter realized suddenly that she had a real story for her editor and went pale with fear as she remembered that lady 's ruthless slashing up of her last offering , the report of an insignificant wedding . |
| 15 | Maybe they both happened at once but from that moment everything was dreamlike and wonderful , I lost count of time as I sat there while the breathing became deep and regular and the animal began to he aware of his surroundings ; and by the time he started to look around him and twitch his tail tentatively I realized suddenly that I was stiff-jointed and almost frozen to the spot . |
| 16 | Yet each time that third line came round the tune seemed to gather itself up and find new energy from somewhere , and perhaps it did n't fall quite so far each time in the fourth , and Tabitha was captivated despite herself , watching the pretty man play and wondering how he would end it , how he could ever resolve the disagreement between the rush and the ebb , until she realized suddenly that he had , with a quiet , lilting little rill that ran up and then down and flicked its tail and was gone . |
| 17 | This manner of association places the two C-terminal stalk regions some 140 apart ( Fig.5 a ) , oriented so that their polypeptide chains can each continue into the membranes of separate cells . |
| 18 | They could light no fire , and Ratagan prophesied gloomily that their camp that night would be cheerless . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll be watching the seasons change out of my dressing-room window : I 'm doing it to test my patience , ’ says Gordon , disappointed only that her love of travel must be momentarily put on hold . |
| 20 | She does n't cry in front of Robert any more , she still tells him lies about what things cost so that she can save some money and make sure she 'll never be dependent on him again . |
| 21 | I found much that I identified with , the old lady looking in the TV shop window , enjoying all channels , one assumes , the ‘ Eye-drop ’ queue in the hospital . |
| 22 | It stopped so that they did n't miss the conversation . |
| 23 | The insertion of an adequate Human factors approach into a comprehensive design process is not easy , partly for the reason mentioned already that it has not habitually been regarded as necessary and partly because it cuts across all other decision-making . |
| 24 | I longed to speak , but found absurdly that I was shy . |
| 25 | Frank Malton , 77 , of Acacia Street , Darlington , has called for action on a dangerous broken grating on Brinkburn Road which he reported two months ago but found yesterday that nothing has been done . |
| 26 | But he demonstrated yesterday that he is now back on song and he is looking forward to a good run in the National Championships at Newark at the end of the month . |
| 27 | If at the time any claim arises under this Policy there is any other existing insurance covering the same loss damage or liability the Corporation shall not be liable to pay or contribute more than its rateable proportion of any such claim provided always that nothing in this condition shall impose on the Corporation any liability from which but for this condition it would have been relieved under the provisions of Proviso ( a ) of Paragraph 2 of Section A of this policy . |
| 28 | Eva said , " When I went to Africa she never mentioned once that I should n't go . |
| 29 | The chairman of the fund-raising committee Heather Scott promised yesterday that she would make sure that every penny would be spent on the new unit . |
| 30 | It was only as they drew nearer that he began to make out that it was the concrete skeleton of an unfinished three-storey duplex , its half-built walls , pillars and floors rising out of a sea of mud . |