Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] [vb past] it " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 2 | His reply was so matter-of-fact , so lacking in emotion that she found it hard to believe . |
| 3 | Shiona could see from his eyes that he meant it . |
| 4 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 5 | There is every indication that he believed it to be true , whether it was or not . |
| 6 | right , and I look over to Roger and Roger 's flicking through his notes like this and as you , you were peeping through and he 's trying to find out what , what he 's talking about , they 're not looking at each other and anyway at the end of it , er we went through it and at the end of it he turned round and went how was it , what were you playing at , what was that spiel that you gave it 's in my brief , that 's one of my objections |
| 7 | And then they could n't sing a ballad in the key that they recorded it because of some studio trick ! |
| 8 | If you do give your heroine this skill you will have to some extent to prove to your readers that she had it . |
| 9 | Franca had her pride , and part of making her situation endurable must be the fiction that she endured it , if not cheerfully , at least stoically . |
| 10 | Not quite enough perhaps but still enough to be an admission that they got it seriously wrong in the year before . |
| 11 | However , in some of the cases that he mentioned it appears that there must have been some error , or they would have been dealt with more promptly . |
| 12 | First thing is to make sure that you get an opportunity to discuss it and I agree other people who actually res responded in seem to collect the fee and I am not paid to collect the fee to try to make it very difficult for people to respond but nevertheless the numbers that we , I think in terms of other areas , other areas , the response that we got it is a bit ironic though to sit here in the afternoon having listened in the morning to a lovely discussion which was agonising three hundred , five hundred thousand for on traffic calming . |
| 13 | ‘ It is a coincidence that they announced it on the eve of my press conference , ’ he admitted . |
| 14 | ‘ It was only during the afternoon that I remembered it was my 15th birthday . ’ |
| 15 | They wo n't accept with Charles Wychwood that ‘ everything is copied ’ , and wo n't accept his opinion of Chatterton : ‘ Thomas Chatterton believed that he could explain the entire material and spiritual world in terms of imitation and forgery , and so sure was he of his own genius that he allowed it to flourish under other names . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I wonder what was in the briefcase that someone wanted it so badly ? ’ he said aloud . |
| 17 | Though he showed no very clear signs that he realized it , the Tsar had crossed the Rubicon , carrying the nobility with him . |
| 18 | ‘ That sound changes as I go from the window that I picked it up in , to a different window , or to the desktop . ’ |
| 19 | It was when she turned away from the window that she saw it . |
| 20 | what would happen if you , let's have a look at G , depends on , what would happen if you were still paying fifty pence , but they gave you four hundred , four hundred grams of chocolate , well you get eight grams per penny , this is another test that you got it the right way up , if it were still only two hundred grams , but you payed more money for it , let's say they charged you a pound , I think you 'd get less grams per penny . |
| 21 | I said , she 's alright , but it was n't the ordeal that she thought it was going to be . |
| 22 | ‘ It was certainly in England that he made it first . |
| 23 | With the guilt swept from her mind , Ana seemed to have improved almost overnight and the pleasure on Felipe 's face told Maggie that he saw it too . |
| 24 | How you going to know exactly where the boundaries go or i in between some land-lock countries that you got it in the right position |
| 25 | His look as he glanced across at her resembled so much that of a shamefaced small boy that she found it hard to control a smile . |
| 26 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 27 | I was so carried away by the wisdom of my hon. Friend 's question that I found it necessary to repeat it . |
| 28 | ‘ Some lead such active lives that we found it difficult to arrange a time for interview , while others are so isolated and lonely that our interviewers felt guilty about terminating the interview and leaving them to themselves . ’ |
| 29 | Er , the recommendation to those committees was that they should treat the paper as a basis for consultation , it was on that basis that they approved it , it was my impression that they support it in general terms . |
| 30 | The Court of Appeal side-stepped having to decide that issue , by holding that the buyer was entitled anyway to rely on section 14(3) ( paragraph 7–19 below ) ; the car was not reasonably fit for the particular purposes ( driving upon the roads in England — in English weather ) for which the buyer had informed the seller that he wanted it . |