Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [that] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Oh right I thought that meant
2 And so I figured that Complete must mean continue on .
3 So I destroyed that place to which the
4 Of course we tried to keep things going — after all , we knew , vaguely , how much we needed that place , needed our evenings there together , but after seven months of enthusiasm and mismanagement The Bar closed .
5 Basically it resembled that issued to hospitals , canteens and similar institutions .
6 If only he knew that looking after his dogs had made her feel that she had just the smallest stake in his life , that it had in some measure comforted her for his absence .
7 So it appeared that making muonic hydrogen would be straight-forward .
8 Somehow she doubted that preparing meals for the child and the husband featured very high on the agenda .
9 You 'd have er there 's somebody on yesterday who said that thinks it should er it should be against the law to cut a tree down .
10 Surreptitiously she studied that lean , attractive face , so close to hers , the austere yet passionate mouth above a cleft chin , the brilliant eyes so fascinating in their shape and colour , the clear-cut bone-structure , the strong planes and angles .
11 Just as the regime had decided , by 1859 , to make land available to serfs ( not merely to emancipate them ) , so now it grasped that strengthening the centre 's authority in the countryside ran counter to the policy of increasing the freedom of its subjects .
12 Well I felt that fed up I told 'im straight out .
13 Well you judged that did n't you ?
14 He 's got a girlfriend called Diane right , well you knew that did n't you ?
15 No , well we saw that did n't we ?
16 And that way when you analyze the results you can sort of say , Well we found that say Birmingham was very disliked erm but you can say that was n't I mean if everybody in the whole sample
17 Today it emerged that DOREND ltd is run by Harold and Ruth Gee who live at this house in north London .
18 A few leading officials believed that free speech , human rights and other concepts embraced by the term ‘ democracy ’ were honourable in themselves , but mostly it appeared that support for democracy was based on promoting economic progress .
19 But then she realized that laid out before her was a flat surface .
20 Then she saw that Bite the Bullet , now under heavy pressure , was drifting away from the rails .
21 But then something happened that had simply not happened with an previous ‘ miracle ’ technology the people demanded a voice .
22 and we did n't think , and sort of , then we realized that had to sort of like turn it off and that might help a bit , but boiling water , we 're trying to stop it with our finger .
23 Then we showed that increasing the after-tax wage would encourage labour force participation by those not currently in the labour force .
24 And yet she knew that swallowing her pride was something that must be done , she would offer Hari Morgan the inducement of her own premises , a free hand in design and the services of experienced boot and shoemakers to work under her direction .
25 The young Beatrice Webb was convinced of the importance of family life for women and during the 1880s desperately desired an intimate relationship with the leading politician , Joseph Chamberlain , yet she knew that to marry him would cut her off for ever from the purposeful life of work that she also wanted .
26 I could tell , but I was n't letting her down too light in case there was anything else she knew that had n't come out yet .
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