Example sentences of "that we [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John says he was terrified that we even knew about the briefcase . |
| 2 | I told her we were Baptists and she said she would tell her husband because he thought Gran was an amazing woman having such a large family , but she had told him that we probably belonged to ‘ one of these odd religions ! ’ . |
| 3 | Both features resembled their names to a baffling degree but , despite this , Abu was moved to expound upon them with such fervent body language that we nearly plunged into the ravine and terminated our lives at the very lip of the sacred symbol of where we had begun it . |
| 4 | An advanced state of dehydration may have affected my judgement , for it was almost 12 hours later , in the dead of night , that we finally stumbled into the tent ! |
| 5 | But it 's still right on that , on that turning point , it 's a hundred and fifty years after the John Trevisa theme that we just looked at . |
| 6 | In fact the whizzy-wig , whenever you use it , you do n't have to actually draw a diagram , that map that we just saw with boxes and arrows and things , you could draw that on the spreadsheet with the whizzy-wig . |
| 7 | That we just connected on a kind of mental plane . |
| 8 | And at that stage it was too late to go down the rope so it was just instinct more than anything else that we just jumped over the side from where we were then . |
| 9 | I think it 's quite , quite right we should be asked to do that , it 's just unfortunate that we perhaps got over optimistic when the land sales were boom , were booming . |
| 10 | Four hours a day in a blazing saddle can leave its mark , but my bottom was fine , the terrain being so rough that we never broke into a trot , let alone a gallop . |
| 11 | And er another thing that we never did in those school er very very very rarely did a boy erm oh what did we use to call it ? |
| 12 | Erm , we had an example advert early on that we actually read through , for the simple reason of finding how long it was going to take , so we had a target as to how long we needed the advert to be very early on and we could work to that . |
| 13 | I do not believe that we ever said to anyone in geriatric care or anyone who entered a home for any other reason , ’ Do n't worry — social security will pick up the bill , however reasonable or however high . ’ |
| 14 | For your information , if not for your conversion , let me bring you another in the line of startling books which turn upside down all that we ever believed about the Old Testament . |
| 15 | Perhaps I should start with one of the most colourful characters that we ever had in the Pathfinder Force — unhappily now dead — Tommy Blair of No 83 Squadron . |
| 16 | They sat down to a celebration champagne lunch with Dai Davies , the farm manager , and set about opening the heaps of telegrams and congratulatory letters ‘ so that we really felt on top of the world ’ . |
| 17 | And give us back the pride and the credibility that we once took for granted as trade unionists but we allowed to slip away from us , and make us a force to be reckoned with , and send this government a message , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to tell us how to run the G M B , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to prevent us from protecting our brothers and sisters and we 'll no never ever allow anyone at Westminster to defeat the trade union movement . |
| 18 | The fact that two of our cones are sensitive to green is thought to indicate that we once lived in tropical forests , where this area of the spectrum dominates the scene . |
| 19 | This power given to individuals by the Spirit is not the naked ruach that we sometimes met with in the Old Testament days in men like Saul and Samson . |
| 20 | The only other thing I would say is that you 've got domiciliary health there on the bottom of page forty-three for the first time , a thing that we certainly asked for on your behalf . |
| 21 | That we only lay on the ground and kissed . |
| 22 | Yes er I think that er notwithstanding the fact that we only spoke about the er incentive scheme on occasions , we reserved our er judgment as to when we would apply to the management to discuss certain matters . |
| 23 | Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs . |
| 24 | I do n't want to give the impression that we often talked about Shanti 's origins ; we only did so when she obviously wanted to . |