Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How many of them lacked only the good fortune that saved you ? ’ |
| 2 | She cast away the unwelcome thought that if she was made redundant she would have to find new work immediately or forfeit that small oasis of security she 'd won for herself . |
| 3 | He reached under the saddle a second time and drew out the steel-tipped phallus that was attached by a chain to the pommel . |
| 4 | The two Senussi soldiers were sent off on a recce and reported back the following day that there was no checkpoint on the road leading into the town . |
| 5 | Everyone else went ahead on the basis of the animal data , and then found out the hard way that if it 's taken during pregnancy you get damage to the foetus . ’ |
| 6 | He outraged respectable Victorian society by his public championing of the poor and his denunciations of the uncaring rich ; in addition , he not only espoused the cause of the theatre and ballet as harmless and enjoyable pastimes , but rejected entirely the received opinion that these entertainments constituted the inescapable gateway to the everlasting bonfire . |
| 7 | The Right-Ons fired back the unanswerable reply that meetings belonged to those who attended them . |
| 8 | When the headmistress , with some guilt , asked her to take over the school 's unpopular Commonwealth Society she rolled up her sleeves and cleaned out the dusty room that had been hung with torn posters depicting ‘ Tea-picking in Ceylon , ‘ Coffee Growing in Kenya , ’ and ‘ Sheep Farming in Australia . ’ |
| 9 | He took out the remaining hand-grenade that Frankie had given him in New Orleans and slipped that into his inside pocket . |
| 10 | Twoflower took out the golden disc that Rincewind had noticed before , squinted at its unseen face for a moment , muttered ‘ Thirty seconds should about do it , ’ and said brightly , ‘ Smile please ! ’ |
| 11 | There are those who argue that it was the desperate attempts made by the Soviets in the last decade and a half to match the US , especially in Star Wars research and development , which brought about the economic collapse that dismantled the communist monolith . |
| 12 | Most of the voluntary organisations considered it their duty to inculcate a proper sense of shame in their charges , until World War II brought about the first intimation that unmarried mothers were beginning to avoid the hostels run by charitable institutions for that very reason . |
| 13 | She saw in Rachel 's face three years of loss and loneliness ; she saw too the simpler anger that Rachel would never dare to express . |
| 14 | Erm I I think does but er I do n't think it er became quite the successful initiative that er that they hoped it would be . |
| 15 | With a groan that seemed to come from the bottom of the earth , Luke reached down and tore away the lacy silk that covered her . |
| 16 | She put aside the guilty thought that he made love as if he had studied it as he had told her he once studied keyboard fingering and Bach 's Innovations . |
| 17 | He put forward the unconvincing view that an election was never part of the plan . |
| 18 | The had not the least idea that their love was a crime in people 's eyes . |
| 19 | Third , of course , Mr Reagan ( like other presidents before him ) had not the slightest thought that Mr Gorbachev might actually do what he asked . |
| 20 | I had not the slightest inkling that they would emerge , which is why " emerge " is the right word . |
| 21 | Helmut Kohl , the German Chancellor , said later the same day that such criticisms of Germany were " inappropriate for a minister " . |
| 22 | He had n't the vicious streak that showed in his brother , and might prove a very good team-member . |
| 23 | It had n't the same effect that Charles might have produced . |
| 24 | An event a quarter of a century ago sparked off the nationalist project that has now been brought so violently to an end . |
| 25 | So he looked at Matron , tight-faced and armored in starch , at Miss Guttner sitting lumpishly beyond her , her glasses shining blankly as they picked up the overhead light that filled the room with a necessary illumination against the heaviness of the sky pressing grayly against the windows . |
| 26 | He picked up the lop-sided contraption that was meant to be his pheasant trap . |
| 27 | I do not know where Henry Green picked up the erroneous information that Ivy had been a governess , but thinking of some of her sibylline utterances it was tempting to imagine her as a royal and imperial governess at Thebes and Mycenae . |
| 28 | He picked up the third book that he had thrown . |
| 29 | In the emotionally charged pieces that he wrote from the war front , Nizan pointed up the inescapable fact that the future of France was being decided on the soil of Spain . |
| 30 | He picked out the small nematode that had just the right characteristics , and single-handed , he established a thriving field from scratch . |