Example sentences of "that they [vb past] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been stone dragons , and jade dragons so delicate that they disintegrated at a puff of breath . |
| 2 | One of them made crochet toilet-seat covers that they sold at the shop . |
| 3 | But it 's not part of the the police case here , that they knew at the time that they entered the flat . |
| 4 | He would n't let me pay that for it , he said that they had at the shop . |
| 5 | No , the fact of it was , Diane and her employer might easily have been two different species for the way that they looked at the world . |
| 6 | The interesting points to note for both papers are that they emerged at a time when the SDP , a party of the middle-ground , was in the ascendant , and that neither moved to the ‘ left ’ , not even the social democratic ‘ left ’ , in the 1987 election . |
| 7 | Soldiers initially alleged that they fired at the car after it had driven through an army checkpoint and hit a soldier . |
| 8 | The talks were the most significant in a 15-month series of deputy foreign ministerial level discussions in that they occurred at a time when the two countries appeared to be on the verge of restoring full diplomatic relations . |
| 9 | Individuals in that generation of whom we know most seem to have grappled uncertainly with how to deal with their growing understanding of and revulsion from the slave trade ; sometimes it was almost to their own surprise that they arrived at a commitment sufficiently deep to devote a major portion of their time and energies to the cause . |