Example sentences of "[vb past] [pos pn] [noun pl] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ondine , the sea nymph ( Margot Fonteyn ) so used her feet that she appeared always to float through water . |
| 2 | ‘ Jeff told me you promised your parents that you 'd treat them to a holiday this autumn in celebration of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary — but that now you 're starting to worry about how you 're going to pay for it . |
| 3 | At the time the thought never entered our heads that there could be any doubt about this , and it is certain that the effect on morale throughout the country was tremendous , especially as for months at a time the war news from other parts of the world was usually bad . |
| 4 | and you mentioned your partners that you played with |
| 5 | Eventually she believed my protests that I would prefer Filipino fare ; it appeared — embotedo , lumpia , bulabula — all in a toasted sandwich . |
| 6 | I told my parents that I wanted to go to the lavatory and have a wash . |
| 7 | Relatives always made disparaging remarks about me ‘ breaking the chain' of five boys , but consoled my parents that they at least had a girl to look after them in their old age . |
| 8 | Harry swore Sam to secrecy , and the two young fishermen told their crews that they had found nothing but an empty boat . |
| 9 | Whatever the reason , the mothers often told their daughters that they should come home and look after them . |
| 10 | I told her parents that I would make sure she was all right . ’ |
| 11 | On a visit to the United States on May 19-21 Kohl , accompanied by Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher , assured his hosts that his government did " not want to see the long-standing Atlantic alliance in any way weakened , still less replaced by a European structure " . |
| 12 | He was questioned about his earlier activities , and told his interrogators that he had been encouraged in his attack on royal policies by Catherine 's confessor , Father William Peto , and by John Fisher , bishop of Rochester [ qq.v. ] , who had given him a tract he had written about papal primacy . |
| 13 | On 8 December he told his ministers that he had blundered by treating the election as a referendum and would not make the same mistake again . |
| 14 | He told His disciples that He was the vine and they were the branches , so that His life flowed in their lives , His life flows in our lives . |
| 15 | Fr Butler told his bosses that he no longer wanted to be a priest , but he has still not formally quit . |
| 16 | Mr Watt is complaining that staff ignored his protests that he was still in severe pain , and that he had no money for a taxi . |
| 17 | A senior detective at Marbella said last night : ‘ This lady told our detectives that she had no idea there was that much concern in London for her daughter and assured them that she would now return home as soon as possible . ’ |
| 18 | His Halloween programme Ghostwatch so scared my children that I have had to sleep on a camp bed in their room . |
| 19 | Although the charge could be laid that CCM depends upon the imitation of other forms , so great is its variety and so gifted its musicians that it can hardly be accused of lacking originality . |
| 20 | On Jan. 18 the 21-country International Energy Agency ( IEA ) , consisting of the major industrialized countries , activated its war energy contingency plan and informed its members that they should make available 2,500,000 bpd to the market within 15 days . |
| 21 | This belief so dominated her thoughts that she began to form a coherent political ideology based on what she imagined the ancien régime to have been like , and became convinced of the perfection of the aristocratic society of eighteenth-century France . |
| 22 | A few days before the hearing of the father 's application , the local authority informed his solicitors that they would not be opposing the application . |
| 23 | Mrs Singh expressed her feelings that it was very important for all her children to speak Punjabi and she was afraid that they might not do this if she and Mr Singh spoke English . |
| 24 | But other gang members warned my kids that I was to get slashed for grassing . |
| 25 | Elise 's parents had been involved in that accident , too , and it was only after the two cousins lost their families that they became so close . |
| 26 | They never dreamt that it could happen cos she was n't in the risk age group or anything , it just never crossed their minds that it might happen and they were totally well they just did n't know what to think . |
| 27 | Looking at Winnie , who , it might be , closed her eyes that she did not see his teeth . |
| 28 | Colleagues backed his claims that he was a scapegoat in a secret political row between BA and Government safety chiefs . |
| 29 | No matter how certain he might be immediately before he closed his eyes that there was plenty of space in front of him , no matter how positive he was as he walked with eyes closed that he was n't veering off to one side and there was tarmac under his feet rather than grass , he still found it very hard , almost impossible , to walk more than about twenty paces with his eyes closed . |