Example sentences of "that [adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an undercover customs agent based in Tampa , Florida , it was his suggestion to target a small-time Colombian drug-money launderer called Gonzalo Mora Jnr that eventually led to the uncovering of a huge laundering operation centred on BCCI . |
| 2 | As the hacks speculated about the cloud of black smoke that suddenly appeared over the palace roof — it did not mean that no decision had been taken , only that a chimney had caught fire — the President was browsing in his favourite bookshop , Les Arcades , just below The Sunday Telegraph 's Paris office . |
| 3 | Analysis of these omissions from the W7 showed that about a quarter were simply inflexions of words that already existed in the dictionary . |
| 4 | The document that finally emerged in the name of the committee was considerably longer than that of School F , and was very formally set out . |
| 5 | It was all so innocent but Fred 's face had darkened and he had become quiet as he went about his work , the occasional grunt of irritation replacing the tuneless whistling and humming that usually emanated from the kitchen . |
| 6 | Instead , the embryos possessed a neuroepithelium that gradually tapered towards the diencephalon ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 7 | From the head of Haweswater ascend high Street , named after the Roman road that once ran along the ridge between Blea Water and Riggindale , on a well defined path . |
| 8 | The deep beam that once ran across the deckhead in line with the forward edge of the chart table has been removed and with it the possibility of scalping tall members of the crew every time they made their way forward through the saloon . |
| 9 | The palisaded earthwork that once lay across the neck of the promontory , beside which they foregathered , was beaten half flat ; and the huts , once the two parties of principals had made their way inside , were mostly empty and ruinous . |
| 10 | Our reporter Tim Hurst has spent five days on board , as the Gloucester prepared for her new role , and also visited Albania , a country that once lived under the world 's toughest dictatorship . |
| 11 | Unknown to the Orcs , the crown was working its power upon Azhag , for it was an ancient and evil device that once belonged to the Liche Lord Nagash himself , and his power and his spirit still clung to it . |
| 12 | In fact the street names and the rest belong with the extremely important disjunctive flotsam of the book : paintpots , old rope , the odd sock , boots that once belonged to the Secretary at the English Embassy , twists of paper , egg-shells , fish-guts , frayed blood-soaked strips torn from trouserbottoms and coat-pockets , an axe-sling in ribbons ( ‘ Little bits of tom linen can not possibly arouse suspicion ! , ’ ) half-eaten meals , small change , miscellaneous pawned objects , candle-ends , trousseau-stuff ( ‘ fancy boxes , dressing-cases , ornaments , dress material , and all that sort of junk from Knopf 's and the English Shop ’ ) broken crocks ( cherepki ) , and skulls ( cherepi ) . |
| 13 | This point was well illustrated in a Church row that once broke over the head of a certain man . |
| 14 | The name is an ancient word referring to a Saxon village that once stood to the north of Darlington between Beaumont Hill and Walworth . |
| 15 | ‘ Your the biggest blasted dictator that ever lived in a home ! ’ ’ |
| 16 | About the size of a sixteen pounder , but infinitely lighter — in fact it had no weight at all — it stood in the heavens shining as white as anything that ever came into a television advertisement . |
| 17 | The ash which had been falling on St Pierre since the beginning of May 1902 continued to accumulate , sifting down softly to cover the ruins of St Pierre in a grey pall and burying many of the bodies that still lay in the debris . |
| 18 | That endurance was not a quality that induced ready sympathy from a class that still looked on the constable as a kind of public flunkey . |
| 19 | Another inch , another foot , another yard — on they crawled through the wet , cold mud across a terrain that still belonged to no man . |
| 20 | Ellen was laughing as she tried to stop the gunk that still spewed from the cylinder . |
| 21 | Taking it out , she ripped it into tiny pieces then tossed the fragments into the bucket that still stood on the dresser like some awful avant-garde ornament . |
| 22 | Within the pale the strangers entering were observed immediately , and approached with an alertness and efficiency that probably stemmed from the fact that the earl himself was in residence . |
| 23 | Once , he licked his finger and held it aloft in the airstream before lowering it to point decisively along a corridor that appeared to Bernice no different from the other two that also ran from the junction . |
| 24 | They must have constantly wondered whether they would ever return to the world outside the moat that separated them from it , a moat that also served as a sewer . |
| 25 | I have already hinted , in my account of the reductive steps the group employed , that a variety of experimentally or theoretically inconvenient processes that also occurred during the behaviour , such as a contribution of the peripheral nervous system , and some of the polysynaptic inputs onto the motor neuron , were dissected away and no longer taken into consideration . |
| 26 | Finally , there is the question of the extent to which Catholic values influenced the definition of this post and the debate about the appointment of this particular teacher , given her values and the feminist perspective that she brought to the school — a situation that also occurred in the appointment of another teacher but in a different way . |
| 27 | But if Montini was so indispensable in the later stages of the pontificate of Pius XII , why was he suddenly packed off to Milan without the cardinal 's hat that routinely went with the office ? |
| 28 | This rule now removes the doubt that often existed about the duration of a notice , when the period started at the time of submission to the council . |
| 29 | Until 1939 he continued to teach medieval history , giving tutorials that often lasted for a couple of hours . |
| 30 | Named after the fountain that originally stood in the hospital garden , where children threw coins to wish for good health , the Wishing Well Appeal became one of the most successful fund-raising campaigns ever conducted . |