Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] [adv] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | This young lady has been assaulted sexually by that beastly little man . ’ |
| 2 | The strongest argument we 've got is that has got a driving record worse than yours and he has been taken on despite that record . |
| 3 | They would fill the tanker from there and we go round the quarry filling the front machines , but erm they say at five or six thousand gallons has been emptied out of that er dump . |
| 4 | The policy of this council over the last couple of years has been to get down to that figure enforced upon us as gracefully as possible with the least damage to our services and the least damage to the morale of our staff and our staff are after all the most important asset that a local authority possesses and that is what we 're trying to consider . |
| 5 | If the body exercising the power has been established especially for that purpose , the courts are likely to conclude that Parliament intended the body to act personally . |
| 6 | Yeah well at the end of the day I mean I I was n't there but a the facts at the end of the day were that they 'd been buggering about with that radio system which they should n't do . |
| 7 | I expect that the Minister can reassure him that an environmental impact assessment can not have been made properly for that incinerator yet , because an application does not yet appear to have been made . |
| 8 | Wallace looked menacing and was through at one point when Burrows hacked him down ( the scouser should have been sent off for that and a clear ‘ professional foul ’ in the second half against Deane ) . |
| 9 | The large buildings at Zakro , Mallia and Phaistos possess plans that have many features in common , though with significant variations ; their designs may have been based loosely on that of Knossos or they may have evolved independently from a common set of functions . |
| 10 | Yeah so , there 's a bit more , more could have been written down on that . |
| 11 | Perhaps some courageous reader will insist that the books are ordered , and the tide of semi-literacy will have been held back to that extent through the unsuspected influence of the popular cinema . |
| 12 | But still I feel that one more thing of immense value must have been taken away with that wagon . |
| 13 | One would have thought that she must have been brought in from that area . |
| 14 | By the ninth century the Magyars had settled around the river Dnepr , north of the Crimean Peninsula , having been expelled outwards by that movement of Asian tribes which rolled peoples westwards for a thousand years . |
| 15 | Secondly we have not heard of anything that has changed in this county since nineteen eighty sufficient to warrant or justify in this alteration the addition of a policy the effect of which , one one with a similar effect having been thrown out at that time . |
| 16 | The car seemed to have been driven directly at that cordon , where it had exploded . |
| 17 | Having survived the early years of childhood , unlike so many of his siblings , he had been struck down by that other malady which afflicted a tragically high proportion of those who lived on into teenage years and beyond . |
| 18 | In 1977 Richard Roll 5 published an article which cast doubt on the validity and methodology of the CAPM tests which had been done up to that time . |
| 19 | There was particular resistance within the camp of the Official Unionist candidate in South Antrim and , not until the final pre-nomination meeting of coalition party leaders in the Seagoe Hotel , Portadown , was it confirmed that the point had been conceded even in that constituency . |
| 20 | Diplomatic relations between the UK and Libya had been broken off since that year . |
| 21 | The dyke at Gripness was laid flat by the sea but the smaller boats had been pulled up afore that . |
| 22 | It was not Selden , who had been running away from that hill . |
| 23 | Of course , it might be the case that it had been settled long before that . |
| 24 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |
| 25 | She explored the place where his manhood lay and he , in turn , used experienced fingers to set alight that part of her where carnal longings had been damped down until that moment . |
| 26 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 27 | The Proceedings of the Royal Society completely overlooked Lear 's beautiful Parrots when it decided that , ‘ The so-called Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains ’ was ‘ by far the most accurately illustrated work on foreign ornithology that had been issued up to that period . ’ |
| 28 | Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis |
| 29 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |
| 30 | ‘ I guess I 've been getting back on that horse ever since . ’ |