Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is for reasons like these that I crossed out the best part of two months each autumn to devote to the public-spending discussions . |
| 2 | Can you just check that we took down the following . |
| 3 | Ever the professional , he silently directed his men with hand signals , ensuring that they took up the correct positions . |
| 4 | And then of course erm would it be later that they took up the English miners ? |
| 5 | But the plains , savannahs , rivers and hills , all the way from Samburu down to the Masai Steppe , proved fruitful and the Masai built up their strength through the acquisition of women and cattle so successfully that they chased out the other tribes who were obliged to cling to the mountains or secrete themselves in the forests , land useless for cattle . |
| 6 | Yesterday 's annual results showed that it kept up the good work in 1991 . |
| 7 | One general outcome of the comparison between the original and the reconstructions is that it brought out the very blandness and the almost self-conscious " flatness ' of Hemingway 's style . |
| 8 | The pain was intense , gripping her with its cruel talons , biting deep , but not so deep that it wiped out the sudden rush of anger she felt at his blind stubbornness . |
| 9 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 10 | Funny how it turned out ’ , meaning that it turned out the other way . |
| 11 | It was there that he filled in the winning coupon , using a lucky pixie : |
| 12 | But although he was so sensitive to conversation that he picked up the slightest nuance , his combination of " tea party cosiness and cold intellectuality " was " if not exactly intimidating , at least restraining " . |