Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In the evening , after a snack rather than a meal , I went up to the loft and used the telescope to take a distant look at the island , making sure that nothing had happened to it while I rested inside the house .
2 John Major , the Foreign Secretary , said in another BBC interview that nothing had changed since the EC Madrid summit last June : Britain would become a full member of the European Monetary System ( EMS ) when inflation fell to ‘ the approximate rate ’ of European competitors , and when France and Italy abolished exchange controls .
3 The essential discovery , now that everyone had heard of Freud , was that guilt could be harnessed to salesmanship .
4 Luke states that everyone had to go to their home town to be registered .
5 It seemed that everyone wanted to know about what I was doing .
6 In Genesis 50 , and more tentatively in 45 also , discoveries were made about forgiveness that no-one had seen in Genesis before .
7 There was nearly a mile of dense woodland at this point before the swampy ground began and it was over an hour before Crane returned saying that no-one had passed on that side .
8 Gradually , all was revealed that is , people , including the authorities and the KGB , realized that the Odd-Bod Greek who had spent all those years collecting the ‘ rubbish ’ that no-one needed had in fact made a collection that was now worth a great deal of money , and it reached a point when it became awkward living in Moscow with the collection .
9 The scene was so exciting that I failed to sympathise with my grey-faced guest who returned with tales of third world conditions in the gents .
10 I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales .
11 One that I saw looked like harp in a chamber of pure light ; and at that moment I could understand the frenzy and madness of the bees that visit these studios of paradise , full of sweetness , and can not cease until they die .
12 The very substantial meat pie , with vegetables ( followed by sponge pudding and custard ) that I saw served on Weald wing drew generally favourable comment .
13 This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake .
14 That was the one that I 'd heard about .
15 Then a film that I 'd made in India opened , and the producer of the film gave me a list of agents ' names , and said , ‘ You are going to be a star .
16 So , there 's me , in agony with me ankle , hobbling over to the hole that I 'd made in the wall of the office .
17 But it had all happened so quickly — and I knew so little about you — except that I 'd fallen in love with you . ’
18 Yeah , well erm , see I advertised it all round cafe as well that I 'd sent for it as well .
19 I was wearing mostly stuff that I 'd pinched from films I 'd done mod gear from Quadropehnia and Take 6-cum-Paul Smith from Breaking Glass .
20 I walked along , trembling with anger and misery , not through the London of beautiful houses and clean streets that I 'd dreamed of , where people wore only elegant , expensive clothes , nor between buildings that soared into the clouds , but in the darkness past trees planted at infrequent intervals and council houses with their unlit windows , all alike ; I passed people asleep , protected from the cold in cardboard boxes , and rubbish in untidy heaps or neatly tied up in black plastic bags and empty milk bottles with traces of sour milk lingering in them , and I marvelled once again that the dairies were trusting enough to leave them lying about .
21 Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night
22 I got there first , ordered a Scotch , and opened the evening paper that I 'd bought on the way .
23 What it turned out to be was a lump of clay that I 'd moulded into what looked like a piece of black and wrapped up in silver paper just fooling about and they really freaked out and they kicked me out and had the police involved and everything .
24 I said almost nothing in the letter ; only that I 'd thought about her once or twice , that I had discovered what ‘ the waiting-room ’ meant ; and that she was to write back only if she really wanted to , I 'd quite understand if she did n't .
25 Actually , I chew on a piece of mozzarella and merely wish that I 'd thought of bringing a silver pistol , because , let's face it , Dudley Moore played Patch the Elf in the 40-million-dollar Santa Claus — The Movie which unlike say Ishtar or Hudson Hawk , is consistently unbearable for every single one of its sad seconds .
26 Patiently , I went through the same arguments that I 'd used with Mazzin himself , emphasizing that we did n't want any trouble but would n't tolerate abuse , and that we felt Islamic Jihad did n't want to cause us unnecessary distress .
27 Just as a matter of interest , would you have believed me if I 'd said that I 'd bumped into an old acquaintance near the museum ? ’
28 So that black top that sweatshirt top that I 'd got for Lee , it was seventeen ninety nine , you got that for thirteen pounds , forty five erm thirty two pound off .
29 ‘ It meant that I 'd got through all my policies … [ they ] all had a little bit of fun and expression and there was no change in policy .
30 No , who was that I 'd got ta a statement about then ?
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