Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then 54 of the older pupils who recently took part in a five-day visit to Ironbridge , Shropshire , described all that they had learned , with readings , slides and models . |
| 2 | They recounted all that they had learned in their careful reconnaissance , clustered in a corner of the great hall with the dogs round their feet in the rushes . |
| 3 | On the second day , she wrote Louise a letter that she knew was inadequate but told all that she felt capable of confiding for the moment . |
| 4 | They had hesitated too long and were regarded with suspicion by those British officials who might have helped them but thought , perhaps , that two people who deliberately set out for Berlin in the last week of August 1939 deserved all that they got . |
| 5 | As Jaq lay in his sleep-cell at quarter-light with the trunk sealed in the nearby oubliette , he recalled all that he had learned at the conclave . |
| 6 | Well it so happened that two of the aircrewmen were burnt enough , not real serious , but burned enough that they had to use the ground spare from another squadron , they could n't go on the mission . |
| 7 | But anyway , they allowed this that they did n't have any further use for it that I could have it . |
| 8 | The Kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls , who on finding one pearl of great price went and sold all that he had and bought it . |
| 9 | It surprised some that he did not retire to Cambridge . |
| 10 | Thus , while at the peak of his long and difficult reign , and while engaged upon an ideal cause that represented all that he stood for in terms of imperial and religious aims , Frederick Barbarossa probably died from what we would now recognise as a massive heart failure . |
| 11 | To me she represented all that I had imagined of the bygone days of sail . |
| 12 | I bought all that I needed for a laboratory , and sent everything to Scotland . |
| 13 | He gave me a hard stare , which said all that I needed to know about my fate if he failed to beat me . |
| 14 | I had all that I had wanted , peace and privacy , a day to myself before Crispin came , and an absolute compulsion to stay indoors and take another look at the poem that had been broken into by the tutorial in Cambridge . |
| 15 | I knew I had all that it takes ; the others told me . ’ |
| 16 | Edward hurled all that he had in his hands , the purse , the scent , which struck the rat in the paunch . |
| 17 | Neither Nehru nor Jinnah gained all that they wanted ( or what they had announced as their objectives ) but Aung San and Thakin Nu did obtain all their demands , despite British objections . |