Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] the [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or is it , is it that they 've become a sort of exclusive club , arising al almost always through the ranks of the of the law , and gradually , gradually got withdrawn from the way that ordinary people think and feel . |
| 2 | Instead Rosa waited in church before the eleven o'clock Mass , in the side chapel of the Madonna of the Spasm , and tried to pray through the minutes that seemed to haul themselves onwards through time as if anvils were strapped to their feet . |
| 3 | With her tongue she tried to wash off the blood that covered him . |
| 4 | I tried to impress upon the child that if he had landed in England before he met me , he would not have spoken English and people there might have regarded him as ridiculous . |
| 5 | He 'd forgotten about the booklet that he put forward on building regulations , the forward that he 'd put forward , so what he was asking to do was already Council policy that he initiated but forgot about . |
| 6 | There could 've been something there , someone I 'd met in the past that might open another door . ’ |
| 7 | Increasingly he seemed fixated on the danger that it would escalate into a world war . |
| 8 | Zack seemed pacified by the thought that there was someone with nerves more ragged than his own . |
| 9 | Marsh Jones , Border , Moody and Mark Waugh seemed fazed by the fact that they could no longer employ the speed of the normal opposition of medium-pacers to run the ball behind the wicket . |
| 10 | A convoy of Romanian Securitate trucks filled with helmeted men came racing up the track that emerged from the forest . |
| 11 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 12 | Her eyes closed tight shut , and her forehead came to rest on the hands that gripped the bedpost . |
| 13 | Nicolo 's words seemed to hang in the silence that suddenly enveloped the room . |
| 14 | Chris had already been given a severe ticking-off when he 'd admitted to the box-office that he 'd lost count of the number of tickets and cheques he 'd stuffed into all his suit pockets . |
| 15 | Like many supposed puppets , Mr Castro learnt to tug on the strings that tied him to his masters ' hands . |
| 16 | Over the past few days , however , Harry noticed that she seemed reconciled to the fact that they were fast becoming an inseparable threesome . |
| 17 | His Mum turned to look at the car that had crushed the arrow bits . |
| 18 | Somehow , he forgot to deal with the allegation that the Prime Minister 's stay in Candelada gave the ‘ mark of approbation ’ to the animal abuse . |
| 19 | He read widely in all spheres of learning and became inspired with the idea that he had a mission to introduce the learning of western Europe to his countrymen in Serbia . |
| 20 | Counsel for the appellant sought to put to the victim that she had a number of previous convictions for dishonesty and violence . |
| 21 | Also in the 1900s the infant mortality rate began to fall with the result that some poorer families faced the cost of raising more children until they were old enough to work . |
| 22 | He declined to comment on the allegation that he had decided to leave in order to deflect a Justice Department inquiry into his finances . |
| 23 | Gesturing that she was to follow him , he began to march along the path that led down the hill , and was quickly out of sight . |
| 24 | When she emerged , she responded with a grunt to Melissa 's , ‘ Good morning , ’ and began wrestling with the bar that controlled the window shutters . |
| 25 | Well I think it 's very important Robert because , I mean as the charter for the arts indicated look at the money that local authorities are spending upstairs to us and really you know we , we are |
| 26 | Slowly it began to dawn on the pair that nobody else could possibly represent their work . |
| 27 | It was only weeks after the speech that I began to read in the press that actually her theme had been positive and she had presented a positive forward view . |
| 28 | He followed her when she moved towards the cliffs and began to climb up the path that curved and twisted on the cliff-face . |
| 29 | Even at the time that the White Paper was being issued in 1972 , it was becoming clear that the rapidly declining birth rate would have very serious repercussions for the colleges of education ; however , it was not until the decline began to steepen in the mid-1970s that the full implications were publicly announced by the DES . |
| 30 | They were not intellectually fruitful , these little exchanges , but they served to get across the message that a good soldier should be smart , disciplined to the point of pain , unquestioning in the face of authority and preferably dead . |