Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb infin] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He did explain that to us quite often , when she had fallen in love with Europe and the prince proposed , she saw herself in Rome ; the Eternal City , it was always that to her . |
| 2 | While agreeing broadly with the England manager 's summing-up of the present Brazilian team , the thought did occur that in another footballing era he could have been describing an Italian side — brilliant in breakaways but giving nothing away at the back . |
| 3 | They 're bringing fraud , I did see that on the T V , they 're bringing fraud into |
| 4 | Nor , pace Marx , did industrialization inevitably result in capitalistic alienation ( although Durkheim did acknowledge that in ‘ abnormal ’ circumstances anomie might result ) . |
| 5 | But we did recognize that in opening the southern bypass , it would have an effect on traffic pattern . |
| 6 | It was n't all that much help , anyway , as far as tracing the kidnappers was concerned , but it did mean that on that point at least the Nilsen girl was telling the truth . |
| 7 | But it did mean that in order to understand a particular way of thinking — for instance that of the theist — it was necessary to pay careful attention to the way in which theists actually spoke . |
| 8 | He did mention that to me he did say that to me . |
| 9 | Okay you 're absolutely right er we did play that at the beginning of the programme we had a little trouble with our C D what happened there Stuart it went off the air did n't it ? |
| 10 | I did notice that on her ribber ( Knitmaster ) , both pile levers were in the ‘ closed ’ position . |
| 11 | Though I enjoyed the book immensely it did seem that to an extent Mayle had used the plot to answer the numerous critics who , riddled by jealousy at the success of his two books ( Toujour Provence was the second ) , have given him a good going over . |
| 12 | But is does seem clear that at various times the Levellers did allow that in practice not all men would be enfranchised by their proposals . |
| 13 | However , I did find that after a short time the material began to pill quite badly around the cuffs and down the front . |
| 14 | He did say that by concentrating on types of labourers , and learning from the studies of life he admired so much in work by Gavarni , Daumier , Dore , De Groux , and Rops , he hoped one day to produce acceptable illustrations for the magazines and newspapers , and bring in a small income . |
| 15 | And although he is adamant that the hardware business will not be run down , he did say that in future the firm will carefully weigh up whether it is more more cost-effective to manufacture products and components itself or buy them on the open market . |
| 16 | However he did say that in the years ending June 1983 and June 1984 the total number of High Court judges so involved was 28.4 As no details were given , this figure is almost meaningless but if the categories counted were similar to those for the period of 1953–73 those two later years show almost a doubling , on average . |