Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , medical and social science research began to indicate that retirement itself had detrimental effects . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This defeat of the most successful application of Communist party popular front tactics appeared to demonstrate that opposition forces within Latin America ( backed up by the United States ) were too powerful for such a strategy to be ultimately successful . |
| 4 | The Chinese side had ordered that construction be halted until the project received China 's approval , saying that China had not been consulted on the matter , and expressing concern that it would place a financial burden on the new government after 1997 . |
| 5 | In September 1991 President Mitterrand had announced that production would be reduced from 120 to 30 missiles . |
| 6 | Charlotte stood on the spot where Maurice 's car had stood that morning and gazed to the north , her coat buttoned to the collar , scarf wound around her neck . |
| 7 | Hugo had never suffered fools gladly — Edouard , not a fool , and possessed of a quick and nimble mind had forgotten that side of his nature , which he , in any case , had rarely seen . |
| 8 | But to be fair , none of the drivers had had that Mr Major or Mr Kinnock or Mr Ashdown in the back of the cab . |
| 9 | The vaults were then changed at night or when the bus had finished service and then were counted by a different means , they were counted by machine coin counters and er so , instead of say erm what , sixty or seventy conductors paying in their money , this was all erm on the bus , so there may have been five or six drivers had worked that bus that day and all the takings he 'd taken during the time was all in this night safe in this vault . |
| 10 | The voters of the Shankill Road in Belfast , traditionally the home of working class populist independent unionism , had supported Johnny McQuade rather than the UDA or UVF and McQuade had taken that vote into the DUP when he joined it in 1971 . |
| 11 | If any stranger had come that way it was likely he would think he was following the black road to hell . |
| 12 | In that year he succeeded Jean Ludet as ‘ Basse de Hautbois et taille de violon ’ ; Ludet had assumed that position on 10 April 1682 at the retirement of Michel Rousselet ( Arch . |
| 13 | Strauss had settled that question by treating them as myths , in which the significance of Jesus was indirectly expressed . |
| 14 | His sole had approached that region where dwell the vast hosts of the dead . |
| 15 | That was even more urgent now that Mr Lang had admitted that council reform cost estimates by the consultant , Touche Ross , were wrong . |
| 16 | he had a way with him and he was , got on very well with Mr and er he told us afterwards that erm the whole trouble was that the children 's baths had leaked that morning |
| 17 | A statement from Germany 's Bundesbank seemed to rule that possibility out . |
| 18 | It should not have been a surprise that companies sought to use that range of permissible techniques to present their results in the best light . |
| 19 | Even Saddam 's propaganda machine failed to bring that lie to life . |
| 20 | Boeing fought to have that clause removed ; Branson , equally tenaciously , insisted it should be retained . |
| 21 | Therefore Caliban had a special value to the Perots. ( 4 ) In breach of their duties , the defendants failed to disclose that material fact to the plaintiff . |
| 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 | The dark grey eyes that glanced her way just before they moved across the chaotic intersection seemed to mirror that hatred , and she recoiled slightly . |
| 24 | Prison visitors seemed to acknowledge that drug taking among inmates is widespread . |
| 25 | As the boy strove to imagine that life , so his countenance rippled , the tattooed spider twitching and convulsing . |
| 26 | However the judges did order that margin notes made by the so-called nymphomaniac on their genital size , sexual skills and bedroom fantasies would remain secret . |
| 27 | Janice had taken that day off from the library . |
| 28 | Perhaps the old man with the torn shoe was not some desperate down-and-out with fists full of stolen mushrooms ; maybe he was just an ordinary person whose shoes had split that lunchtime , while shopping . |
| 29 | With those SDS contacts he journeyed on to the West Coast , where the Vietnam Day Committee had started that May . |
| 30 | Curtis had closed that side door twice but I 'd found reasons to go back through , the dogs ' bowls , checking the padlock on the cellar and , somehow , I did n't bother to shut it . |