Example sentences of "that [adv] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , even connected it on the end here , the , the station and set this display decoder up and it even did it there so it was nothing to do with the live lamp wire , the way they routed it we thought that perhaps rerouted it to the cable or something like that |
| 2 | It was the violent jolting of our wheels on the sleepers that finally woke me to the realisation that Ward had switched from the road to the railway line itself and was bumping his way along the track towards the gaping mouth of a tunnel . |
| 3 | Bond was a large , dusty tuffet of moss that calmly hoisted itself into the catbox one icy evening . |
| 4 | Since the Trust was founded Hillary has spent much of his life touring around the world raising money , always with the same enthusiasm that once took him to the top of Everest . |
| 5 | In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates . |
| 6 | It was a move that clearly suited him for the following season he was picked for the county squad . |
| 7 | It was the final ignominy in the short , troubled history of the club that nearly made it to the First Division . |
| 8 | I got on my bike and went back to the house a bit recklessly , shooting through puddles on the path and taking the Jump — a bit on the path where there 's a long downhill on a dune and then a short uphill where it 's easy to leave the ground — at a good forty kilometres per hour , landing with a muddy thump that nearly had me in the whin bushes and left me with a very sore bum , making me want to keep opening my mouth with the feeling of it . |
| 9 | It was Annabel 's friendship and her acceptance by the Kirkley family that really kept her in the House of Christ the Saviour , where there was no laughter except in the kitchen with Sister Cecilia and sometimes a covert smile from Sister Aloysius . |
| 10 | One of the things that really annoyed us in the Ministry was when the Publisher 's representative used to go straight into the Minister 's office and dictate letters which the Minister then signed . |
| 11 | Benedict 's pulse began to beat in his throat , and he fought vainly against that familiar rush of heat to his blood that invariably engulfed him at the sight of her . |
| 12 | There was only one drawback and that concerned the weaker kittens that sometimes found themselves at the bottom of a pile of bodies and unable to breathe . |
| 13 | I slammed on the brakes , stopping with a jerk that almost threw her on the floor . |
| 14 | In the middle layer is greenish gabbro , molten rock that never made it to the surface of the crust . |
| 15 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |