Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't know why my search drew me to that part of the house , except that Curtis was the only soul in it other than myself and Leon .
2 Forest fans gave it to that slag Clough and in the long run they got a bitter reward .
3 ( President Assad told him on that occasion that Saddam Hussein was like a chain-smoker : ‘ He can not help lighting another one before he has finished the first .
4 His lips twisted in scorn , and Lissa hated him for that look .
5 ‘ It 's nigh on two year since I 've been out that house , ’ said Bella suddenly , ‘ since the Warden took me for that X-ray after I fell over and hurt me wrist . ’
6 It would not be whimsical to suggest that I still go to Arsenal now because of what Swindon did to me then : like a gambler who keeps playing because it is the only way to win back what he has lost , I still feel , somewhere in me , that I am owed for what Ian Ure and Jon Sammels and Bobby Gould put me through that afternoon .
7 Julia loved him for that protectiveness , too , and pulled her hand out of his to let him go .
8 Lord Cameron admonished him on that charge .
9 Old tombstones provided her with that lit match to the powder trail of her imagination .
10 Wales had believed they were playing with the malevolent elements in the second-half , Armstrong 's kick disabused them of that notion .
11 ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor .
12 ‘ I 'd sure like t'have pulled him in that night .
13 Danger of choking stopped him at that point .
14 Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels .
15 But God confronted her about that laugh — not because she laughed in God 's presence but because her laughter expressed a limiting view of God which was a denial of his power and an incitement to doubt .
16 Oh , Brian took me round that corner , right , slowed down too much
17 He liked to think that people put him above that kind of thing .
18 But God wanted us in that society and we now have a choice .
19 They all knew that they had to go on fighting , and be strong for their children , and Mr Edwards commended them for that strength .
20 With another black look , the man led us to that door over there .
21 And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there .
22 ‘ Around 80 Subject Assessors visited us during that fortnight , and every module was looked at .
23 police took him in that night cos they thought he 'd burnt it out himself .
24 The General Strike in no way deflected it from that course and it is difficult to see that event as an historical watershed in the evolution of trade union policies and attitudes .
25 Jenny 's boyfriend left her with that attitude , and this made her even more determined to keep her baby .
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