Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [pron] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soldiers initially alleged that they fired at the car after it had driven through an army checkpoint and hit a soldier . |
| 2 | Shortly before his death in the next year , Henry III granted to his queen , Eleanor , the custody ‘ of the castle and forest of Windsor and the seven hundreds , and the towns of Old Windsor , Bray and Kempton , during pleasure ’ , provided that she accounted at the Exchequer as Nicholas de Yattendon , the previous constable and warden , had done . |
| 3 | The author of a recent book on the history of clocks and their influence on the modern world has remarked that anyone looking at the techniques of time measurement throughout the world in , say , the eleventh century ‘ would have given odds that the Chinese would develop a mechanical clock well before the Europeans ’ . |
| 4 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 5 | The Princesse had insisted that they gather at the Waldorf for a light lunch . |