Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beating the bounds , when the parishioners walked round the parish boundaries to ensure that everyone knew where they were in case of dispute , was associated with the Rogationtide crop blessing . |
| 2 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 3 | Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings . |
| 4 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |
| 5 | Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one . |
| 6 | The first thing that I noticed when I arrived in the dusty Managua airport , besides the tanks parked in the landing field , was an enormous poster of an unmistakable Daniel Ortega , clad in blue jeans and a cowboy shirt , holding an infant with an earring . |
| 7 | In fact , I 'd become so accustomed to relying on her that I wondered how I would . |
| 8 | that I did n't I brought the rest for Laddy . |
| 9 | It was n't until I was much older still that I found out she 'd committed suicide . ’ |
| 10 | Ridging and patching were the first jobs that I tackled once it became apparent that I was neither going to find another job nor be content to remain a labourer . |
| 11 | Already known to have a weakness for a pretty face , it was understandable that she worried now he chose to teach attractive young girls . |
| 12 | It was n't that she cared how she looked , she told herself . |
| 13 | She ran up the path and knocked at the door , her whole body seized by such a trembling excitement that she thought perhaps she was going to faint . |
| 14 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 15 | So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her . |
| 16 | She replied that she knew where he was but she did n't want to discuss it . |
| 17 | She began to feel that she knew where she was , a little : and after a while she too began to talk . |
| 18 | He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends . |
| 19 | It seemed so quick and easy when the time came that she wondered why she had waited so long . |
| 20 | After all , ’ said the kind-looking gentleman in his pleasant voice , ‘ they were aware by then that you knew where they lived , and that there was a chance you 'd have them arrested . ’ |
| 21 | How many of the rest of you would say that you got where you are today , in your area of expertise , with trial and error . |
| 22 | Specifically in Highways and Planning , if you look at the previous report , the enclos following profile one , you will see that in the Highways Planning Department excepting the offices , it is almost entirely male , and I think this is , it 's for the Director of Highways and Planning to say in the end , I think this is an acknowledgement by him that in the way that you mentioned nevertheless it seems to be apparent in some way , shape or form , women are not getting equal opportunity in that department . |
| 23 | In some ways , he was so sleepy and relaxed that you wondered how he ever got the adrenalin up to race . |
| 24 | This same attitude can also be seen in the exasperating , but typical , response that we received whenever we questioned a third party 's motives for doing something : ‘ Oh , sara ’ li kaa' ’ — roughly : ‘ Oh , it 's his business . ’ |
| 25 | The set of four that we sent so they were fifteen pound in there . |
| 26 | It could be accomplished , I thought , by not worrying about the future , by taking things day by day , and our being perfectly honest with one another so that we knew where we were ; and loving . |
| 27 | Which again is a part of the luck which probably saved me and er when I got down to the pump which was directly below where the explosion occurred , there was about three or four of us there and er as I said that the only indication that we got out it was a an enormous bang just directly overhead . |
| 28 | A waitress in the hotel said they all remembered the day of the big Piper Alpha rig disaster ‘ in the same way that we remembered where we were when Kennedy was shot ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ The most fortunate thing was that we found out he came from a village in Essex and by sheer chance Mr Woods came from the same county and knew the same village which gave them something to talk about . ’ |
| 30 | Naturally , nobody gave us a second look and I had the traffic lights co-ordinated by computer so that we stopped near you just as Sergeant Plod , with perfect timing , gave you an excuse to mace him . |