Example sentences of "that [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gaunt showed consistent loyalty to his father and , after 1377 , to his young nephew Richard II , but he lacked the charismatic authority of his father and eldest brother , and he was widely if unfairly blamed for the misfortunes that befell England in the last years of his father 's reign . |
| 2 | But I hardly like to tell you about the disaster that befell Angela within the next few minutes . |
| 3 | It was Mr Duggan 's vision that secured Eurovision in the first place for Millstreet , against the odds . |
| 4 | The Basques went into fishing , navigation , and finally into iron ; the Caracas Company that developed Venezuela in the eighteenth century was a Basque concern , the Economic Societies were a Basque invention and it would seem that the Basques were the best-read Spaniards of the late eighteenth century . |
| 5 | It is reported by collectors of folk customs , like George Ewart Evans , as a joyful pagan procession that reached Britain in the eighth century , and was later Christianised and celebrated at Rogationtide , the fifth Sunday after Easter . |
| 6 | He was off target with four penalty attempts and it was his mistake that presented Malone with the second of their two tries . |