Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The measure of previous knowledge here is the percentage of the 30 subjects who reported knowing that junction at least moderately well previously . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I hated making that film . |
| 5 | So , when I finished reading that explanation of it , maybe I 'll have a stab at it . |
| 6 | We found evidence that the electors exercised a coherent choice amongst the media sources on offer ; and that they enjoyed exercising that choice . |
| 7 | ‘ I enjoyed playing that role . |
| 8 | finished playing that tape yet ? |
| 9 | True to Bonnie 's prediction it began snowing that night . |
| 10 | ‘ The band had only been together a couple of months before we started recording that album , so we did n't have time to think about it too much — we just went in and did it . |
| 11 | They started drinking that evening and the man who 'd been fired started talking about life in Vietnam and posing as a veteran , and he said to the other one , ‘ The only place to go after hours is Tan Son Hut airport because they have marvellous chinese soup there ’ and they wanted to sober up . |
| 12 | But I do n't re think they realize what they were doing when they started making that flower border round , it 's going to be a never ending job . |
| 13 | On the other hand , perhaps the youth was just plain stupid and had n't realised what would happen when he started waving that placard about . |
| 14 | We were disliked because of things that had happened in the past and we did n't need any motivation when we kept hearing that sort of talk . |
| 15 | One evening in August — it was their fourth night in a row ; her blood kept flowing that month — he turned to her and saw an expression on her face that he did n't recognise . |
| 16 | Now he , he liked doing that sort of thing . |
| 17 | Nowadays I keep huge lists of every person , organisation and publication connected with birds , so I hope I 'll never again have the problems I had finding that owl . |
| 18 | It continued to engage her thoughts as she sat knitting that afternoon . |
| 19 | Only when he told her that he intended leaving that evening did he feel her hand tighten in his . |