Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too . |
| 2 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 3 | The Express and the Mail saw the Empire Crusade as a means of uniting the Empire by encouraging free trade within it and both newspapers gave publicity and financial support to those by-election candidates who promised to uphold that line in Parliament . |
| 4 | She could not tell the human who she was , but she remembered the feeling of affinity ; she tried to indicate that affinity , a finger pointed to holly and to human flesh , but the blank look remained in that fur-wrapped , pale-faced Tallis . |
| 5 | Most colleges it seems contained people made unhappy by sexual harassment , who find little or no support from the people charged to provide that support . |
| 6 | I tried to find that horse |
| 7 | I 'm sure you 'll be surprised to discover that the man you tried to shoot that night at Meltham House was n't Mr Churchill . ’ |
| 8 | The Kurds have been and are being massacred , and are dying of neglect — our neglect — by the tens of thousands because they tried to escape that massacre , which we did nothing to prevent . |
| 9 | The present pavement is to some extent gauged to enhance that relationship , which will be savaged by the proposed reconstruction of pavements . |
| 10 | He tried hard not to admire or approve of the heroine , tried to imagine that life was not like that really . |
| 11 | The London County Council proposed to widen and extend Cromwell Road to its western boundary — i.e. to the eastern boundary of Chiswick , and the Ministry of Transport , with the Middlesex County Council , proposed linking that extension to the Great West Road . |
| 12 | Tried to convert that girl . |
| 13 | Again and again he tried to recreate that moment . |
| 14 | When the Earl of Pembroke , as President of the Council in the Marches , tried to reform that court , its Solicitor , John Amyas , commented : ‘ I perceive there shall few men 's estates here be unsearched . |
| 15 | If nothing else , the system helped to ensure that incompetence — even failure — would be achieved nobly in later life . |
| 16 | She closed her eyes , leaning back against her remaining pillow as she tried to recall that aspect of her childhood . |
| 17 | The measure of previous knowledge here is the percentage of the 30 subjects who reported knowing that junction at least moderately well previously . |
| 18 | Saying it helped to quell that flicker of excitement . |
| 19 | ‘ I first tried to get that kind of raspy voice that comes when the vocal cords have broken down . |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't believe that I never stopped to think that Amber , four , was in the room , too , when I started punching her father , ’ Gail recalls . |
| 21 | The clerk expressed the view that they contained inadmissible material because of the hearsay rule and he took the view that the evidence was inadmissible despite the relevant provisions of the Children Act 1989 designed to overcome that difficulty . |
| 22 | They dropped in the earthenware bowl , and were absorbed , so that when , later , Ruth helped to eat that morning 's baking , she imagined she could taste the bitterness of the tears . |
| 23 | Akhenaten tried to break that pattern and look what happened . ’ |
| 24 | I suppose one of the things I use to demonstrate it most clearly is that for many years I s I gave lectures on communications and one of the things I used to say in those lectures was I did not know , and I was stressing that sense what came first if newspapers write stories in a particular way , because that is what the public wanted or do public want a particular type of story and that 's that newspapers round-up and I stopped posing that question when Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun because Rupert Murdoch bought the Melbourne Sun and introduced a lot of sex-type stories you know stories about brothels and madames whipping people and goodness knows what else and the sales rocketed and there we had almost a captive example of change in the design of change in the type of stories that were written and people , people were buying it and so you have an issue of you know that your content was actually being by what your readership wanted . |
| 25 | Results can be analysed by reference to the total number of grains overlying the chromosomes in all the mitotic cells scored , the total number of grains overlying each individual chromosome and the significance of the latter in relation to the number expected to overlie that chromosome assuming that grains are randomly distributed per unit length of chromosome . |
| 26 | Philip James Cattlin ( ACA ) of 97 Judd Street , London having been found liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that he in London between 17 March 1992 and 15 September 1992 being sole proprietor of a firm of Chartered Accountants , failed to cause that firm to comply with an order of the Disciplinary Committee made on 17 March 1992 that it pay costs in the sum of £500 and having been found liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) in that he in London between 14 August 1992 and 15 September 1992 failed to provide information required of him by the Investigation Committee on 14 August 1992 in exercise of its powers under Bye-law 80(a) and in that he in London between 19 May 1992 and 4 August 1992 failed to satisfy a judgment of the County Court that he pay a sum of £5,634 and having been found liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) in that he in London between 7 January 1992 and 4 August 1992 failed to provide information required of him by the Investigation Committee in exercise of its powers under Bye-law 80(a) concerning a judgment of the County Court was excluded from membership of the Institute and ordered to pay £1,000 by way of costs . |
| 27 | It was n't the first time she 'd heard that kind of comment . |
| 28 | I 'd heard that noise before , but never from Selina . |
| 29 | When they 'd heard that name , they knew they must take the place . |
| 30 | Well , cos it was in town , it was nearer to shops , and erm I 'd heard that keeping Balloon Woods ' flats warm was costing people a hell of a lot of money . |