Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clear that everyone had felt equally proprietorial about Philip . |
| 2 | I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess . |
| 3 | But that I 'd done before . |
| 4 | And then how would I have felt , she asked herself as she hurled the jeep down the motorway , finding that I 'd fallen again for a man as cold and hard as that — finding out when it was too late what he was really like ? |
| 5 | I had n't realized that I 'd followed so closely in his footsteps . |
| 6 | The evening was cloudless and warm and after pitching the tent and cooking something called " Hunter 's Goulash " ( a freeze-dried meal that I 'd brought home from a trip along the Appalachian Trail — it tasted like fried sofa stuffing doused with monosodium glutamate ) , I walked up the narrow lane above the youth hostel to watch the sun going down behind Pikedaw Hill tingeing the sky a dusky orange — a wonderful sight . |
| 7 | He was sure I was going to be sent to Siberia but I 'd given him all my film and all the pictures that I 'd taken already . |
| 8 | When they came I was rather surprised that there seemed to be so many ; I said I had no idea that I 'd ordered as many as this . |
| 9 | So like , there was me sort of all of a sudden wearing like old T-shirts and stuff in bed so that I 'd got quite high collars and mum was sort of going |
| 10 | It was largely due to him that I managed to negotiate successfully with government officials and tribal chiefs during the months that followed . |
| 11 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 12 | I did my best , but I suppose it was during that time that I began to drink too much and that finished off my promotion chances . |
| 13 | Sine then , whatever the frame , I 've rarely had them off my nose , to the extent that I began to hide defiantly behind them , never fighting being four-eyed except in specs and a ball gown , when I always feel decidedly Everage . |
| 14 | It was as I got towards the end that I began to look more towards his future . |
| 15 | ‘ I felt that I began to get very complacent in my guitar playing and that 's why we asked Craig to leave . |
| 16 | At night I tossed and turned to dreams of such emotional intensity that I went to work as tired as I was the day before . |
| 17 | And he said that I had perceived correctly , that he might do nothing without my goodwill which he would strive to gain , if I would allow it . |
| 18 | ( Now was not the time to say that I had danced only on the boards of my Leeds bedroom … ) |
| 19 | Ron was delighted too , saying that I had run well after my lay-off with injury and had beaten one of my main challengers for the European title . |
| 20 | People envied me my birth and my childhood , but my secret pride was that I had rejected both to make of myself a prosaic and common-sense fellow . |
| 21 | They had stolen my good oilskins , but the thieves had never found my small stash of money which had been hidden in a redundant sea-cock , nor had they found the old Webley.455 revolver that I had hidden deep in Masquerade 's bilges . |
| 22 | In my answers to the Murray Commission , I was not very complimentary to 40-overs Sunday cricket , thinking based on the fact that this version of the game is the one furthest removed from ‘ proper ’ cricket , and that over the 1991 season I had become so disenchanted with the Sunday slog ( in both senses ) that I had played so consistently badly on the Sabbath as to persuade my employers that somebody else might be more usefully selected on the day . |
| 23 | I took a sharp knife and cut through the body that I had joined together so carefully . |
| 24 | I took a sharp knife and cut through the body that I had joined together so carefully . |
| 25 | Fearnley was by now talking so quietly that I had to lean close to hear him . |
| 26 | Circumstances dictated that I had to wait nearly two years ( how did I survive ? ) . |
| 27 | She added , ‘ He 's very good to Margaret ’ , and I felt that simultaneously she had nodded towards the past while affirming the present and that I had fallen somewhere between the two : nothing but the body of a ghost , nebulous and deserted . |
| 28 | But it was a shock to hear the exact tone of bitter resentment that I had heard so often in England and felt so often myself . |
| 29 | I found that I had become very tired and once again Boris said ‘ It 's time to go . ’ |
| 30 | Posters advertising Knock pilgrimages that I had seen nearly always mentioned ‘ matchmaking ’ as part of the attractions . |