Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Already known to have a weakness for a pretty face , it was understandable that she worried now he chose to teach attractive young girls . |
| 4 | But now as she stood looking at herself in a full length looking glass , she could see that she had indeed what the magazines described as the perfect figure , firm round breasts , a narrow flat waist , good hips , a small posterior , and long slender legs which were greatly enhanced by the silk stockings the assistant had carefully rolled on to them . |
| 5 | She stifled the inevitable tears of self-pity , only too aware that she had only herself to blame … |
| 6 | There were those , of course , who 'd say that she 'd only herself to blame . |
| 7 | There are scenes in variety , but connected by an interesting theme and one that she made particularly her own , the self-deceiver . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She thought she knew herself very well , but faced with God she realized that she knew virtually nothing . |
| 10 | When they did converse , she said little and mostly listened ; it had only recently struck Angelica that she knew almost nothing more about Alina now than she had at the end of that first day . |
| 11 | He grinned down at her and it was only then that she realised just what she had said . |
| 12 | He sounded so fiercely protective that she wondered sadly what it would be like to have a man care for her as much as Roman cared for Berenice . |
| 13 | Incredibly , it was not until she pushed open the kitchen door that she remembered just what day it was and what they were all supposed to be doing . |
| 14 | The third reading , for instance , was slower than the first , despite the fact that you knew exactly what you were looking for . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The set of four that we sent so they were fifteen pound in there . |
| 17 | Then , when we actually visit that place for the first time , a subconscious memory is triggered and we are convinced that we knew instinctively what it would look like . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the Hawthorne experiments that we discussed earlier it was group pressure that determined the appropriate behaviour of individuals rather than formal guidelines , and informal sanctions were imposed if the individual did not conform to the group norms and expectations . |
| 20 | But anything that we covered basically I 've got in them notes there . |
| 21 | Not necessarily : ‘ I do n't think I meant that even the people who have no caveats attached implied that they knew absolutely everything in the box . |
| 22 | That they gathered together their Sanhedrin , their court and they brought him to it . |
| 23 | Chief among them , and born of the group 's increasing feeling that they stood far something , embattled against a hostile world , was their tendency not only to see merit where none existed ( in the poetry of Fox , for example ) , but actually to think that belonging to the group — which began at around this period to be known as the Inklings — was in itself a sort of merit . |
| 24 | C I hope they 're so saddened that they threw now they 'll go out and buy it . |
| 25 | About a year ago the MOD told the main contractor , Hunting , that it had all it needed . |
| 26 | It may well be the case — as some commentators have observed , perhaps unduly cynically — that the economic and political situation in 1979 was such that it mattered little what the government tried to control as long as they showed determination and resolve to control something ; the money supply happened to be both a convenient and a relevant variable at that time . |
| 27 | She ran a hand over her hair , arranged the shawl so that it covered both her and the baby , and went out with her long resolute stride ; she had recovered quickly from this birth . |
| 28 | If the Minister attended and attempted to make the type of speech that he made here he would be laughed at . |
| 29 | Yet I knew a Wiltshire man who said that he burned hardly anything else ; and it was very fine , he said , when well seasoned . |
| 30 | She always had so many places to go and so many people who wanted to see her that he felt cruelly his own stolid boringness , and was not surprised that she did not spend more time with him . |