Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zimbabwe eventually snatched that game 18–16 , but the Spanish had their revenge later ( see pages 36 & 37 ) . |
| 2 | It merely seemed that way yesterday . |
| 3 | ‘ You know , there is a story in Malta , ’ he said drily , ‘ that when St Paul the Apostle was shipwrecked on our shores , back in 60 AD , and he performed a miracle by removing the poison from a snakebite , he merely transferred that poison on to the tongues of Maltese women . ’ |
| 4 | The pre-existence of matriliny was important for Engels because he wrongly believed that matriliny , as opposed to patriliny , was associated with communal corporate descent groups . |
| 5 | The disastrous Lisbon earthquake of 1755 not only shook that city and the faith of the " Age of Reason " ( including Voltaire 's ever hopeful Candide ) , it also considerably modified the local sea-floor and its sediments . |
| 6 | And occasionally , as now , it so happened that duty and pleasure would fall together in a sweet coincidence ; and from Parson 's Pleasure , after dutifully forbidding Lewis to linger more than a couple of hours or so , Morse himself departed . |
| 7 | A community famed for exuberant high living suddenly decided that austerity was the better part of valour . |
| 8 | it went they were racing like that , and a car come that way , so went that way |
| 9 | As throughout the tour , Ashenden had observed the opportunist self-seekers at the front of the queue ( as ever ) for the room-keys ; and in the rear ( as ever ) the quieter , seemingly contented souls who perhaps knew that being first or last to their rooms would make little difference to the quality of their living . |
| 10 | Apart from the fact that I 'd put my make-up on badly in my haste , I looked fairly normal — a bit flushed , maybe , and my eyes seemed unusually bright , but perhaps they only looked that way to me . |
| 11 | Things are especially bad in America , where the FCC unwisely insisted that TDMA be introduced directly into the band used by analogue phones . |
| 12 | ‘ I only fell that time because of those steps . |
| 13 | Lamb alone tore that stopper from his mouth so the fans could learn , authoritatively and from the middle , exactly how Pakistan had perfected their series-winning delivery . |
| 14 | But first , but when we first came here I spent three hours on a Sunday morning , and I only did that area where you play football . |
| 15 | ‘ Suppose you suddenly had that feeling — tawdry — while you were walking up the aisle with George Beador . |
| 16 | And he said well just get yourself home and tell your father that I want it paid for this time because I only replaced that glass last week , which he had |
| 17 | You only had that sample of five , Sin Iguales . |
| 18 | The subsequent fall in UK prices greatly closed that gap , prompting the export dependent Dutch and Danish to further lower their prices to maintain a price differential of some kind . |
| 19 | ‘ He so wanted that job as a mime artiste . |
| 20 | When I was in prison I was n't hard to start with , but I soon got that way . |
| 21 | In every practical sense , in Huaiwiri , they already shared that authority — at the least with women , but also on occasion with the law , the army and the health service . |
| 22 | week or so , it just got that bit |
| 23 | ‘ Just got that idea . ’ |
| 24 | I got a stupid feeling I just moved that pawn again . |
| 25 | You just messed that joke right up for me ! |
| 26 | ‘ Fru Møller just told that lady that it never rains here in August , but the dolls say it often does and they packed their mackintoshes ! ’ |
| 27 | Oh it just happened that way . |
| 28 | it just happened that way you know the twentieth of November and there 's the nineteenth of February |
| 29 | But there is every reason to suppose that there already existed that division which makes the Church of the later Middle Ages so strangely resemble a military hierarchy , with the upper clergy as commissioned officers , the rural deans and archpriests as N.C.O.s , and the parish clergy as privates . |
| 30 | We never based ourselves on them but we just developed that way . |