Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Major , the Foreign Secretary , said in another BBC interview that nothing had changed since the EC Madrid summit last June : Britain would become a full member of the European Monetary System ( EMS ) when inflation fell to ‘ the approximate rate ’ of European competitors , and when France and Italy abolished exchange controls . |
| 2 | So , there 's me , in agony with me ankle , hobbling over to the hole that I 'd made in the wall of the office . |
| 3 | I got there first , ordered a Scotch , and opened the evening paper that I 'd bought on the way . |
| 4 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 5 | I said that I feared going down the road of different regional governments having different tax rates . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I could not believe my eyes as every film , one after the other , that I lifted dripping from the hypo , was totally and absolutely blank . |
| 8 | It was through this work that I came to hear of the case of Dr Ron Carrington , a 35-year-old psychiatrist . |
| 9 | He was so frightened that I went to look for the animal . |
| 10 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 11 | I have made all the amendments that I wished to make to the procedures and I have done it in pencil with a copy to circulate . |
| 12 | To me she represented all that I had imagined of the bygone days of sail . |
| 13 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 14 | I gave up the stiff white collars that I had worn at the advertising agency and was careful to wear plain ties ; but my suits were Burton 's at £10 a time . |
| 15 | And against all sense and credibility I worked out that I had landed in the midst of what might be called a farmstead , Fraxilly-style . |
| 16 | and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job . |
| 17 | Except that I had to live with the aftermath . |
| 18 | One thing that I had grasped about the whole business was that we were going to live in a country area where there would be lots of wildlife , and I had heard of King Arthur , of course . |
| 19 | It was dark , I could n't make out their features , but I was terrified that I had jumped from the pot into the flames . |
| 20 | And it was perfect for me because a lot of the vibrato that I had developed over the years suddenly sounded more like me , because the vibrato bar was n't there taking up the slack and giving way every time I applied vibrato . |
| 21 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 22 | Admission into the complex followed a similar pattern to that I had seen in the English prisons : searches , registration , allocation , different coloured uniforms for the various categories of prisoner , etc . |
| 23 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |
| 24 | Following the work that I had done at the MU on the Circuit Board Fault Diagnostic Aid in connection with my MSc project , 2 members of the staff had gained experience of expert systems : the Chief Technician and a civilian who had assisted me during the project . |
| 25 | I leant back and looked at the seat of my trousers , checking that I had brushed off the mud ; I wanted to make the transition from somebody who had just slept rough to somebody who looked as though he was out for an early walk . |
| 26 | Fortunately those of my friends who knew me before were only amused by this foolish description and there was no general resentment of my peerage , which could properly have been attributed to many services that I had given to the government — of both colours . |
| 27 | I wished that I had written to the two women about Donald 's death , and that I was not now obliged to tell them of it . |
| 28 | What I did not realise then — but what I would discover the moment I embarked on my journey to those front doors — was that I had touched upon the essence of the Arab–Israeli war ; that while the existence of the Palestinians and their demand for a nation lay at the heart of the Middle East crisis , it was the contradiction inherent in the claims to ownership of the land of Palestine — the ‘ homeland ’ of the Jews in Balfour 's declaration — which generated the anger and fear of both Palestinians and Israelis . |
| 29 | I felt helpless and despairing and suddenly so ill that I had to clutch at the door to stop myself falling . |
| 30 | I THOUGHT that I had disposed of the subject of flashes of light from materials when stressed , especially as I was only a few centuries behind Francis Bacon in mentioning the phenomenon . |