Example sentences of "[that] [noun] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They said that Kabir the weaver was favoured of God , and the crowds flocked round him for medicines and miracles . |
| 2 | The only two dates I have ever been able to remember are the date of my birth and 1066 , the year that William the Conqueror first visited England . |
| 3 | It is here that William the Conqueror is said to have bribed two friars to help him gain access to the City of York after he had besieged it unsuccessfully . |
| 4 | It was at the capture of Mantes that William the Conqueror fell from his horse and received the injury from which he later died in Rouen . |
| 5 | Via the half-reliable morsels of intelligence that pass from continent to continent along this jungle-drummed , smoke-signalled messageway , it appeared that William the Choco of Santa Fé in Darién was possessed of an unusual link with a great historical moment . |
| 6 | It 's hoped that wneh the Oxford Universal Hip wears out the bone will be healthier to receive a new implant , causing the patient less pain . |
| 7 | The art of blending is to produce a whisky with a distinctive flavour which will remain consistent , so that drinkers the world over will recognise and be able to enjoy their favourite blend . |
| 8 | Allen 's colleague Jeremy Bailey has produced a computer program that colour-codes the view at each wavelength and then adds them together to produce these multicolour views . |
| 9 | In all the yelling and argument that followed Jo concluded that Andy the gardener was a starfucker in the literal sense of the term , for what else could her mother have been doing in the pool house at that time of day and why else would she have over-reacted the way she did ? |
| 10 | Furthermore , Mossad has the advantage that Jews the world over , rich or poor , owe an ethnic loyalty to Israel that enables them to be called upon to help even in quite minor ways . |
| 11 | The alluvium passes down a sluice where particles of gold , because they 're heavier , are retained behind wooden ripples , and up on the carpet that lines the sluice . |
| 12 | A guide to London public sculpture described the monument as ‘ A masterpiece by the much-advertised apostle of Ugliness ’ , a view shared by those who felt that Hudson the nature lover was ill commemorated by a sculpture which showed nature in so raw a state . |
| 13 | The line that tensions the sail down the length of the mast and is connected to the mastfoot. it controls the shape at the front of the sail . |
| 14 | Sometimes , too , you have to scratch ear to make sure you really did just hear what you thought you had , for although spotting-the-influence occasionally seems to tempt the listener , there is some highly individual writing here , and the prodigality of the invention is startling : the music simply poured out of her , sometimes with a batty , Ancient-Mariner intensity that buttonholes the listener willy-nilly , not stopping to form its garrulousness into coherent shapes . |
| 15 | His mind is open to the possibility that Alan the Aston office manager might be pulling a fast one over him . |
| 16 | all that proved to me is , is that Helen the board , the examination board that Helen did at the college , she said it was a much , a much better exam to do than it was at |
| 17 | It was soon after that that Tom the cabin boy 's Aunt Clarabel asked him to put the cat out . |
| 18 | That satraps as well as the king had their entourage of fellow-diners is proved by Xenophon 's Anabasis ( i.8.25 ) which says that Cyrus the Younger had his ‘ table-sharers ’ , and by Diodorus ' description ( xvii.20 ) of the ‘ kinsmen ’ of the satrap Spithrobates , who fought with him at the battle of the Granikos in 334 . |
| 19 | that cracks the walnuts in her hand I 'd like to see somebody do that |
| 20 | One , application could be made to the court that Mr the landlord is unreasonably withholding consent to the lease , if the court finds that this is in fact the case they will permit the assignment of the lease to you , not withstanding the landlord 's objection . |
| 21 | As I emphasized at the beginning , the issue is not just one of zoological taxonomy , it is a problem of ethics , and unless you are prepared to argue that Koko the gorilla might become a Christian , ethics concern rules which apply to human beings but not to non-human beings . |
| 22 | That 's the that 's the one that prints the catalogue and then personalizes it . |
| 23 | The neighbourhood has already been intensively plundered , so that night the queen stops laying and the entire community marches off , workers carrying the grubs . |
| 24 | There was a strong feeling in some quarters , especially the voluntary sector , but also the District Council , that questions the degree of representation of all the different interests needed to be looked at , hence the proposal that there should be |
| 25 | The heart 's own oxygen does not come directly from the blood within its chambers , but from a separate system of small blood vessels that encase the heart muscle like a net — the coronary arteries . |
| 26 | ‘ I wonder if it 's that Jack the Ripper , ’ she laughed , and followed Dad out to the shed , leaving me with Liza who had just come in . |
| 27 | I had heard rumours that Jack the Ripper was about in the night , but that did n't stop me launching into the fog . |
| 28 | We saw that Jack the Ripper did n't we ? |
| 29 | Franco 's hostility to intellectuals of any persuasion meant that intellectuals the world over were driven into the defence of the Spanish Republic . |
| 30 | Especially we remember those who served on this airfield and we pray that the peace they fought to obtain may not be lost to us , but as we may live and work to bring it to thy world , that Christ the Prince of Peace may reign in the affairs of men . |