Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [Wh adv] [pron] " 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 | It was n't that she cared how she looked , she told herself . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her . |
| 11 | She replied that she knew where he was but she did n't want to discuss it . |
| 12 | She began to feel that she knew where she was , a little : and after a while she too began to talk . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was only when she sat down that she realized why there were several spaces : her section of the carriage contained a group of unruly Italian teenagers who were obviously well beyond the control of the two middle-aged nuns accompanying them . |
| 15 | It seemed so quick and easy when the time came that she wondered why she had waited so long . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In some ways , he was so sleepy and relaxed that you wondered how he ever got the adrenalin up to race . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | It was only when they came out of the rearmost door and found a temporary hut facing them with Radio Room marked on the door , that they realised why they had n't found it the first time . |
| 23 | ‘ He did n't realize he 'd dropped a brick when he admitted that he knew where we were going . |
| 24 | Now that he knew where he was the details of the room became familiar , and he knew at once what had wakened him , and strained his ears to hear it again . |
| 25 | Just to satisfy herself that he understood how it was he was able to build out of the vertical , the teacher asked if he could make a bent tower with wooden building blocks . |
| 26 | ‘ She will entertain us every evening after supper , ’ said Goibniu and Floy nearly abandoned the entire thing there and then , because there had been something so meaningful in the way that Goibniu had said entertain that he wondered how they could ever have considered leaving her here alone . |
| 27 | It was n't until Creed took his arm and he looked into those black eyes that he remembered where he was . |