Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were insufficient funds for a third appointment so that Allan Hayhurst had to carry on in an honourary capacity combining once again the offices of Secretary and Treasurer . |
| 2 | His hair was slicked back in a manner popular in the ‘ fifties , and his hardbitten face was hardly softened by a neat black moustache of the sort that Herr Hitler had driven out of fashion . |
| 3 | You see , I could do any sum in my head that Rebecca Salmon had to write out in longhand ; it used to drive her potty . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought what we were worrying about was a roof over your head , ’ I said , feeling that Aunt Louise needed bringing down to earth . |
| 5 | Alexandra , sorting through the enormous bundle of charitable appeals that Aunt Emily kept bound up with blue tape , asked absently , ‘ What is it ? |
| 6 | The mere fact that Penry Vaughan wished to go on seeing her , however few and far between their meetings , did wonders for her self-esteem . |
| 7 | All the same , he was in no doubt that Matthew Glynn had handed over the contents of the cardboard box to Swayne with a view to some sort of deal . |
| 8 | Lord Justice Watkins , sitting with Mr Justice Garland , also rejected criticism made by Mr Justice Henry at an earlier hearing that Mr Saunders had set up a trust fund to render himself less likely to face litigation and reduce his ability to pay legal costs . |
| 9 | It was true that Ted Mosse had turned out not to be too honest , even in his best uniformed days , had run various little corruptions and been found out , but it did not seem the sort of bad behaviour that would have worried most of working-class South London . |
| 10 | In his April 2 speech dos Santos accused the rebel Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) of violating the May 1991 peace agreement [ see p. 38180 ] , saying that UNITA members had carried out " acts of barbaric and gratuitous violence " , and that UNITA had prevented free political activity in areas still under its control . |
| 11 | If it turned out that Mrs A had gathered up the keys , the , arrest would be unlawful . |
| 12 | That October , when the M's cattle were brought in , it meant that Mrs M had to spend up to five hours a day working with them as Mr M was away teaching for much of the time . |
| 13 | He remembered the name on the letters that Mrs Wright had torn up . |
| 14 | Think of the effort that Professor Higgins had to put in with Eliza ! |
| 15 | How his ancestors had left the meat that Queen Victoria had sent over to them to fight in the streets rather than accept help from the English . |
| 16 | Rumours that Ingres Corp had pulled out of Unix International have turned out to be exaggerated , originating from the UK arm not renewing its three-month subscription to the UK marketing group of UI : while Ingres was withdrawing , citing too much emphasis on hardware , rival Oracle Corp was joining the steering committee , and UI began offering country membership to its organisation with cut price rates for software houses . |
| 17 | WE often read of uncaring stars so it was a joy to learn that Sophia Loren had bailed out her favourite waiter after he was sacked for taking time off to care for his sick wife . |
| 18 | Claims for damages against British accountancy firms have proliferated since the 1970s , when the aggressively litigious environment that US accountants had operated in for many years spread to the UK . |
| 19 | Sue just happened to mention that she had been to an orphanage in Brasov and Christine realised it was the same one that Christine Morey had written about . |
| 20 | This astonishing success , considering the size of his forces and the difficulty of much of the terrain over which he fought , only succeeded in outraging Alfonso , who seems to have believed — or been persuaded to believe — that El Cid intended to set up a rival kingdom in Valencia . |
| 21 | I discovered Buddy Guy , who was playing in Muddy Waters ' band and there was this album called ‘ Folk Festival Of The Blues ’ , which was the first album that Buddy Guy had appeared on . |
| 22 | Across the road to the butcher 's where they looked in the window to see back at the reflection of Hogan 's Outfitters and realise that Sean Walsh had gone back inside to the empire that would one day be his . |
| 23 | Even on the assumption that Yusuf Bali did draw up the original and not just the copy , it does not by any means necessarily follow that he was acting as in so doing ; nor , further , does it necessarily follow that if he were acting as he was doing so in his father 's absence from Bursa , much less his absence on the pilgrimage . |
| 24 | It was around this time that Nick Kent started coming down to rehearsals at Riverside . |
| 25 | ‘ When was it that John Livesey had to give up ? ’ |
| 26 | Angelica now knew why Alina had disappeared from the terrace so promptly on the day that Walter Hardy had hooked out the dead dog . |
| 27 | They said that James Salperton had turned down the offer of a fifth series and the producers were unwilling to continue without him . |