Example sentences of "that it [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it was a worm that it had but |
| 2 | The strange and difficult was becoming second nature in the way that it had when I 'd learned to fly . |
| 3 | It still retained the same dark blue colour that it had when it was stamped into the passport by a British policeman 32 years earlier ; last exit from Palestine . |
| 4 | You know , it 's er it 's got the bad publicity that it had and it 's still got it , well I do n't think it has to be . |
| 5 | The importance of the decision lies in the fact that it indicated that natural justice applied to all decisions affecting a person 's rights irrespective of the form of the decision-making process or the nature of the body entrusted with the decision . |
| 6 | Responding to the absence of clearer guidelines on exchange rates , Bérégovoy told reporters that it indicated that current parities suited all G-7 partners . |
| 7 | It stressed that it accepted that Black had nothing to do with the stolen goods or weapons found at the cottage . |
| 8 | So rosy was the CEGB 's picture of these costs during the 1960s that it assumed that the charges for reprocessing would be covered by the value of the recovered uranium and plutonium . |
| 9 | However , speculation remained that the Army distrusted the peace process , and that it believed that the URNG 's motives were designed to buy time and international prestige while it regrouped its forces . |
| 10 | Hall replied that there were a lot of wagons outside and that it looked as though some men were to go to Long Kesh Detention Camp . |
| 11 | Miss Hannah Hauxwell , dressed in men 's trousers and old jacket so torn that it looked as though savaging by wolf packs had once been part of her daily routine , looked at me mildly . |
| 12 | ‘ Just that it looked as though he wanted me out of the way . ’ |
| 13 | Fabia was shaken , but was more intent then on finding out what she could do to help whatever the trouble was , than concerned that it looked as though she could say goodbye to her much looked forward to Czechoslovakian holiday . |
| 14 | Spike said that it looked like Hunters had attacked the craft . |
| 15 | Decision : the aggravating features of the offence were the age of the victim ( 61 ) , the fact that as a taxi driver he was vulnerable and an easy target ; the isolated location in which the offence was committed ; the degree of violence and the fact that it continued after the theft had been completed ; the fact that the victim had been left , so far as the offenders were aware , unconscious , and the fact that two men were involved , and an implement may have been used . |
| 16 | It will be observed that in those cases there was no statutory period after cessation of trade during which jurisdiction continued , and the court was therefore faced with a stark choice between saying that the jurisdiction ceased immediately active trade was suspended , or saying that it continued until the business had actually been wound up by payment of the debts . |
| 17 | Will he also confirm that it recommended that Cardiff bay should be included in the Severn estuary special protection area ? |
| 18 | The genius of the Council of Chalcedon , in saying that Jesus is one person in both divine and human natures , was that it denied that the incarnation implied anything about the nature of God ( the meaning of ‘ God ’ ) , asserting simply that God , the mystery of Creation , is become a human being — not a divine kind of human being but a human kind of human being . |
| 19 | Not that it mattered because the woman whose dress she 'd soaked turned around and started shouting the place down . |
| 20 | She squeezed her eyes shut and lowered her head , hiding behind her curtain of auburn curls , battling with the tears , battling with the fact that it mattered because she had made a mistake again . |
| 21 | The sea roared like a pride of hungry lions , thudding against the side of the ship like a thousand battering-rams , so that it seemed that at any moment it must break through and drown them all . |
| 22 | She wondered what her father and brothers were doing at that moment , and pictured Niall and Roger riding in through the castle gate with more stories of escapades , cattle raids , skirmishes , pranks and hunting expeditions ; and so vividly could she imagine them that it seemed that she actually heard their voices , saw their red-cheeked smiles , and smelt the leather of their boots and the steam from their bodies when they came into the big kitchen at the end of a day . |
| 23 | Robin-Anne had her mother 's fair hair , so fair that it looked bleached , and she had her mother 's delicate good looks etched on to a face so pale that it seemed as though her skin must burn if it was exposed to anything more powerful than a light bulb . |
| 24 | The sun was shining , the water a deep indigo-blue and the air so crystal clear that it seemed as though I could stretch out my hand and touch the gleaming white of Sarmiento far to the south-east in Tierra del Fuego . |
| 25 | Clearly this would only be the case if the company was perceived as an entity distinct from its shareholders so that it followed that the company and not the shareholders would be liable for any debts . |
| 26 | The IMF had stated that it anticipated that the balance-of-payments deficit would increase during 1989 and would be worsened by capital outflows from the country and a deteriorating trade balance . |
| 27 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 28 | The Adour , which is much the wider , is also the clearer , approximately water-coloured , you could say ; the Nive is the rich colour nearly of chocolate , which is appropriate enough given that Bayonne was long famous for the chocolate that it made and in which it traded . |
| 29 | Its growth was to cause a storm of protest in the next century from archbishops less inclined to travel than Sigeric ; but we need not doubt that it arose because Sigeric and his like were delighted to have an excuse to go on pilgrimage , and the diary he has left of his movements dwells especially on the many churches in Rome worth a pilgrim 's attention . |
| 30 | This way and that it rippled and shivered and then was still , a great sea . |