Example sentences of "that we [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It may be that we felt this time we ought to have voted Labour , that this was the more altruistic , moral , even noble , choice .
2 and you know what it was n't one of his objections at all , you know the video that we saw that morning
3 We could hear the groan of their engines for so long that we thought more vehicles were approaching .
4 We offer the other hand , and eventually a life line is discovered , although it 's so short it appears that we died several years ago .
5 That we owed each other nothing . ’
6 They all go in the bin because we have abandoned the process that we adopted some years ago of posting them back to the county officials and the councillors because that was not having any effect .
7 I like the fact that we sold enough records to go on there even if the event was a little embarrassing . ’
8 Anyway , at Stevenage Town Hall we told Ralph that we expected some money for these .
9 We 've got attendance I was going to suggest that we made that attendance stroke punctuality
10 And it was on that basis that we made that statement there .
11 Gleizes writes , ‘ it was at this moment , October 1910 , that we discovered each other seriously , including Robert Delaunay … and that we realized what we had in common .
12 Actually , I I think you 're all aware of , that we caused some number of issues on that Wednesday afternoon and for that half of our systems .
13 Indeed , we were so anxious to get the figures right that we had little time to spend explaining why what we proposed was morally necessary .
14 It meant however that we had little time to relate our studies at any deep level to Buddhism , but it seemed unanswerable that people must have a deep understanding of their own faith before they can go on to study that of other people .
15 Not that we had much time for feeling anything , we were so busy in the Met Office just then .
16 Yeah , at the beginning was when sort of got twenty minutes left to do it erm we were fine there and I think it was the beginning part was and then we started panicking then like sort of after that you said oh do you want five minutes or more and we all sort of looked at each other you know and we did n't feel that we had enough time erm so we just sort of really
17 The stringent criteria for selecting our patients meant that we had few patients and it is possible that a difference in acid secretion between the patients with idiopathic DU and H pylori positive patients with DU could become apparent with greater numbers .
18 ‘ We came somewhat late to Aberdeen , ’ wrote Johnson , ‘ and found the inn so full , that we had some difficulty in obtaining admission , till Mr Boswell made himself known .
19 The conclusion we are entitled to draw from these findings is that , in general , female usage tends towards the more ‘ careful ’ end of the stylistic continuum and male usage towards the more ‘ casual ’ , and it seemed at this stage of our research that we had some justification for the claim that in linguistic variation , sex-differentiation is prior to class differentiation and need not be interpreted as subsidiary to class ( as it normally has been ) .
20 I had had nothing to read for three months , and now that we had some time to ourselves reading was a good way of distracting myself from the immediacies of life around me .
21 Yes , he gave us five targets to achieve by the one that we had this year .
22 Right , it 's just that we had this issue in support of other research a questionnaire and in support key divisions , sorry , key departments have lists of named individuals who can authorise questionnaires .
23 We acted as if we owned RCA , that we were RCA , that we had this corporation .
24 But soon the consciousness of security became so ingrained that we lost all temptation to enquire about the nature of work with which we were not immediately concerned .
25 ‘ Unless , of course , you 'd prefer me to report to the Reichsführer that we lost this man because of your stupidity . ’
26 Indeed , I was especially delighted that we won that contract for this country .
27 IT is high time that we stopped this charade of swearing allegiance to the Queen and her heirs and successors because we do not know from time to time who they are .
28 It became clear that we needed more time and more study before we could support both Conrad 's ( 1979 ) and Meadow 's ( 1980 ) conclusions that deaf children need the early support of speech-based signing .
29 I felt that we needed more energy on record .
30 We both decided that we needed more detector users to help us on the day , so John contacted members of the Shropshire Antiquities Group , who were more than willing to lend a helping hand .
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