Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used Marsting that 's quite yes , yes . |
| 2 | The London County Council proposed to widen and extend Cromwell Road to its western boundary — i.e. to the eastern boundary of Chiswick , and the Ministry of Transport , with the Middlesex County Council , proposed linking that extension to the Great West Road . |
| 3 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 4 | But they stopped doing that last year . ’ |
| 5 | Erm , I stopped doing that but |
| 6 | The measure of previous knowledge here is the percentage of the 30 subjects who reported knowing that junction at least moderately well previously . |
| 7 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 8 | He lives in the Stroud District and he 'd demanding that local people should be refunded the £7 million they 've paid in water charges . |
| 9 | So when the third Whitley appeared overhead ( incidentally , Murphy said that could only have been Mahaddie ) Donnet recalled thinking that was no gentleman , and that was no Englishman . |
| 10 | ‘ I hated making that film . |
| 11 | Clarity , which anticipated becoming that magical $100m company , has been criticized for putting in a $100m company 's infrastructure complete with six vice presidents long before it could financially justify it . |
| 12 | I quite enjoyed doing that actually . |
| 13 | I 've now retired but I was a lawyer , a solicitor , and er I enjoyed doing that and er when I was a lot younger I had lots of er friends who er were all interested in the theatre , and some of them went into it professionally and some er some stuck with the amateur world as I did . |
| 14 | So , when I finished reading that explanation of it , maybe I 'll have a stab at it . |
| 15 | We found evidence that the electors exercised a coherent choice amongst the media sources on offer ; and that they enjoyed exercising that choice . |
| 16 | ‘ I enjoyed playing that role . |
| 17 | finished playing that tape yet ? |
| 18 | True to Bonnie 's prediction it began snowing that night . |
| 19 | Even if we only got all those old tickets and things into green bags and started cleaning that out it would it would look as though we 're making some effort . |
| 20 | I started blaming that for the headaches . |
| 21 | Yes I think we , we started doing that originally because er the people from the Epping group said they did that every month did n't they , they , they issued a press release and sent it to all the local papers , that seems to be the way of doing it . |
| 22 | And how old were you when you started doing that ? |
| 23 | She started doing that funny face when we had her last time ! |
| 24 | ‘ The band had only been together a couple of months before we started recording that album , so we did n't have time to think about it too much — we just went in and did it . |
| 25 | They started drinking that evening and the man who 'd been fired started talking about life in Vietnam and posing as a veteran , and he said to the other one , ‘ The only place to go after hours is Tan Son Hut airport because they have marvellous chinese soup there ’ and they wanted to sober up . |
| 26 | But I do n't re think they realize what they were doing when they started making that flower border round , it 's going to be a never ending job . |
| 27 | On the other hand , perhaps the youth was just plain stupid and had n't realised what would happen when he started waving that placard about . |
| 28 | I trailed up the hill after the others , thinking how different she looked wearing that stiff new uniform instead of her tatty little cotton dress and gym shoes . |
| 29 | And you just could n't absolutely see anything serving customer I was going to so , to move or change out my draw shutting it up , turning it off , going away and somebody else had come , he kept , kept , kept doing that and he was stood there all the time and I thought I thought you definitely wo n't get the job ! |
| 30 | They kept saying that |