Example sentences of "[adj] along [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had insisted all along that we could not return until that was the case and that having waited so long , waiting a little longer would not matter . |
| 2 | Of course , deep inside me , I knew all along that they knew . |
| 3 | He had known all along that it must be his fault . |
| 4 | Mr Crosby said : ‘ I also have 10 important League matches left and have said all along that if we do n't win these as well I can not expect to be given the job here . ’ |
| 5 | The East Germans and Russians had known all along that the tunnel was going to be built . |
| 6 | The Russians had known all along that the information Blake was officially giving them was fake . |
| 7 | I suddenly started thinking that he knew , he knew all along that Elsie was n't dead at all , that she was still alive . |
| 8 | I 've thought all along that Anthea Darnell knows something , and I suspect that she heard , or saw , or guessed what happened , and she 's shielding Meryl . |
| 9 | ‘ It was an absolutely ridiculous decision , ’ said Kelly , who has maintained all along that there should not have been a re-match . |
| 10 | ‘ I said all along that Lennox would win — but I thought it would be on points . |
| 11 | They should have known all along that she was lying but everyone was in a hurry to get away from her embarrassing tears and her insistence on their testifying to this and that . |
| 12 | At The Gnoll , while the outside world has been chortling at Neath 's discomfiture , they have insisted all along that every club is entitled to a transitional season now and then . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've said all along that the key is managerial accountability , and until NIH is willing to punish people for their behaviour , nothing is going to change . ’ |
| 14 | 6 Later , in a more morbid vein , he confessed : " I suspected all along that there was little possibility that I would be forgiven for making known publicly that Stalin disgusted me , and that I could not stomach the Nazi-Soviet pact and the events in Finland . |
| 15 | It crossed Rain 's mind that Eliot might have planned all along that Harbury should help but that Shildon had proposed her instead . |
| 16 | She had spoken to her about it , not sharply , of course — she could never do that — but with disappointment to which Gemma had calmly replied , " Mother , I told you all along that I did n't want to live in the country . |
| 17 | ‘ Then you knew all along that it was her , ’ she said accusingly . |
| 18 | And Julius had known all along that it was Eleanor ! |
| 19 | He must have known all along that she would run into this set-back . |
| 20 | But in any event I 've known all along that you were involved with Elise . |
| 21 | She 'd been convinced all along that eventually she must lose him , that Marianne was right — some other attraction must inevitably draw him away . |
| 22 | She never seemed to completely shake the dumb blonde image , perhaps because her squeaky little girl voice operated to remind us all along that she was a Working Girl rather than Woman . |
| 23 | I knew all along that you were n't . |
| 24 | Such a theory could enable Tories not only to by-pass James , but also the next heir , Mary , whilst maintaining all along that they had never broken their principles of non-resistance . |
| 25 | ‘ Then you knew all along that the woman in question was your mother ? ’ |
| 26 | She had assumed all along that the only reason her father could possibly have for even considering selling the club was concern that she , Rory , could n't cope with running it , that it would prove too much of a burden for her — that it would hold her back from her own career . |
| 27 | Fabia had known all along that he would be furious if he ever found out . |
| 28 | We 've implored at public meetings all along that nobody takes the law into their own hands . |
| 29 | However Tory group leader Coun Tony Richmond said yesterday : ‘ I have said all along that Northgate would be a far more sensible place to pedestrianise . |
| 30 | ‘ We hoped all along that Britain would lead the international commitment vigorously , rather than half-heartedly . |