Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand that the deep ditch that the boy and motorcycle crashed into on that fateful night is referred to as ‘ deadman 's ditch ’ , a horrific reminder of a foolhardy game that cost a young man his life . |
| 2 | Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time . |
| 3 | I am sure he would have considered that both technical accomplishment and , though not perhaps in the modern sense , introspection , were valuable for the poet , but the labour and intense study which you 'll have noticed he referred to in that passage I 've read , consisted of course of learning large numbers of languages , which he clearly did with great fluency , and reading inordinately the whole of human literature . |
| 4 | They are even admitted to be absurd by Tertullian — ‘ Credo quia absurdum ’ — and believed in for that very reason ; but this is an argument which does not enable us to distinguish which absurd propositions we are to believe Freud thought . |
| 5 | erm the buyer 's guide and the business card erm yes it is a legal requirement but I mean , you know , do n't hammer the fact , this is a legal , I 've got ta give it to you , okay so it came across in that particular vein . |
| 6 | And er a car came by at that moment . |
| 7 | But I can remember one thing that happened in in that respect was that the superintendent came down to a meeting or he wanted to see us after nationalization . |
| 8 | Hurt by ‘ the ungenerous treatment which I met with from that very sex whose sufferings I was at so much pains to relieve ’ , he was glad to leave Aberdeen when recalled to active duty in the Royal Navy . |
| 9 | See the likes of old Cassie talking there about the the She was saying that pe people survived of of that . |
| 10 | Oh no , my father stand aboard there when we have been dredging , you know , and they come up there at speed and he stood there and he swore at at that part of if , call them all the crazy buggers my father . |
| 11 | But all Walter thought about at that time was slap and tickle in the grass , and you can quote me on that , as knows . |
| 12 | But there was a foreman in the shop , but these did their own job er and er in the about three or four weeks , and I 'm only a kid , erm they had me doing separate jobs you know , not for a gaffer or anything and er they used to , they give me odd jobs as , you know like , to help the men and er it went of like that in till I was eighteen or nineteen , well twenty , that time you were , day , become a man . |
| 13 | Spend some moments thinking over one or more examples of what you have noted , and if you can remember what it felt like at that time . |
| 14 | The Via crucis ( composed some thirteen years later in 1878 ) was clearly intended as a far more imposing artistic statement , and listened to on that level it undoubtedly succeeds . |
| 15 | The only advance they learned of during that time was von Ludendorff 's . |
| 16 | Scores of students I spoke with at that time suffered hurt pride that socialist China , supposedly superior to capitalist states , could be defeated by its small neighbour ( and soon to be returned ) Hong Kong . |
| 17 | The ‘ Parliament ’ referred to there is obviously the Westminster Parliament and by implication the ‘ country ’ must be the whole territory legislated for by that Parliament , that is , the UK as a whole including Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | Had to for that . |
| 19 | I had to in that ! |
| 20 | I 'm gon na have to draw it there cos I wanted to Like that . |
| 21 | Within a generally low level , there were short-run increases in listening hours , from 7.5 per week in 1966 to 9.2 in 1972 , for instance , and the amount stayed at about that level . |