Example sentences of "that they [vb past] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to take them home on quite a number of occasions if I 'd known that they lived in the immediate vicinity . |
| 2 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 3 | Mosasaurs , when not head-butting each other , were deep-diving sea hunters , and evidence of avascular necrosis in their bone structure hinted that they suffered in the same way as did human divers — they had frequent spells of the ‘ bends ’ . |
| 4 | In order to communicate with military headquarters in Moscow Russian engineers had simply diverted some of the multicore trunk circuits from the main Vienna exchange so that they terminated in the Imperial Hotel . |
| 5 | They should never have shifted their line-out men around the way that they did in the first 40 minutes . |