Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] [noun pl] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Warnock , under fire after a 6-0 blasting by Millwall , said : ‘ Millwall was a body blow but I 've told my players that I 've always been a fighter . |
| 2 | She had promised her aunts that she would not pick any of the kind king 's flowers . |
| 3 | The pupils , Andrew Pickett , Zammo Collins , Helen Pawsey and Spencer Windebank , had promised their friends that they would arrive in style for the end-of-term prom and decided on a cream Rolls-Royce . |
| 4 | Fiona has told her bosses that her relationship with Davies only blossomed after the super-vision of him ended . |
| 5 | He says he receives no money from BSDI for his code though he alleges BSDI has told its customers that he does . |
| 6 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |
| 7 | The first was that Stirling had promised his men that they would never be subjected to the indecisions of the Commando days when operation after operation was planned and then cancelled at the last minute . |
| 8 | You should have shown your readers that there is n't a Prince Charming , so they wo n't feel disappointed and cheated if their prince turns into a frog , like mine did . |
| 9 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 10 | ‘ I had warned my clients that our joining together was imminent , ’ says Claire . |
| 11 | It was after the Indian team had begun their experiments that they learned about Jones and how his experiments had been motivated by the same ideas as Chatterjee had had . |
| 12 | Throughout her life she had so successfully controlled her emotions that she was now capable of responding only to the demands of music . |