Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [vb past] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well St Aldate 's in the Civil War is quite a problem to talk about really , erm in half an hour , because it 's so enmeshed in the story of Oxford in the Civil War which is a long , very interesting one , so what I 'm going to try and do is erm to pick out some of the local landmarks that did survive in the 17th century and relate them to what we know about some of the people and in this short half an hour , just try and picture what it was like to live in St Aldate 's during the civil war . |
| 2 | Then he would remember his own beloved homesite , and whisper to himself of its dour moorland and rough sea coast , and the winds and the rain that did battle with an eagle 's wings . |
| 3 | There was no taboo on incest , any constraints that did exist on hu on human beings ' mating preferences were dictated by the primal fathers . |
| 4 | I mean the very small number of girls that did get to university at the turn of the century had to endure the most extraordinary trials and hardships . |
| 5 | However , not all females show equally strong preferences , and they decided to breed from the females that did mate with a quadrimaculata male , to see whether their offspring would also show the preference . |
| 6 | We er yes , yes , we erm , one thing that did happen of course was that the area schools as they were called in those days became erm , described as modern schools |
| 7 | Er it 's difficult for people to appreciate today er the amount of political activity that took place during this early thirty period , and it 's pe difficult for people to appreciate the political understanding that did exist over this period . |
| 8 | Er , the vast majority seemed to be generally in favour of the package and it was a small number that did seem to me . |
| 9 | The only flower that did grow in abundance was fireweed ( rosebay willowherb ) , which grew rapidly in the years after the war to cover the bomb sites with its purple flowers and to fill the air with its cottony wisps of seeds . ) |