Example sentences of "[verb] [that] it [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accounts of their trial suggest that it took the form of a political witch-hunt , with the intention of intimidating other critics of the government . |
| 2 | Sabre has stressed that it had no formal link with Clydesale Office Equipment , which has now closed down . |
| 3 | Greece has always stressed that it had no designs on Macedonian territory and it has succeeded in getting its neighbours to say the same . |
| 4 | It was threatened again ( though Edward VIII made it plain that he would only comply if the Liberal government demonstrated that it had a popular mandate for abolition ) in 1909 . |
| 5 | When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices . |
| 6 | The government initially claimed that it had no prior notice of the Commission 's intention to initiate proceedings , but it was later disclosed that this had been the subject of correspondence between the Commission and the Department of Transport . |
| 7 | Whistling softly to himself , Richmann drew his Steyr automatic from its holster beneath his leather jacket , checking that it held a full magazine . |
| 8 | The emphasis was now to be increasingly on service , given to and paid for by the state , which assumed the right to appoint its commanders ( this was made easier by the fact that all accepted the state 's money for service in war ) and to demand that it got the best available in return for its money . |
| 9 | Arriving at the edge of the quay , Fitzroy Maclean attempted to inflate it , only to discover that it had a puncture . |
| 10 | If , as naïve young hunters , they attacked a brightly coloured prey , bit it and started to chew it , only to discover that it had a foul taste or a poisonous secretion , they would probably remember it for the rest of their lives . |
| 11 | The seam had been so thoroughly picked that it had a sharp edge . |
| 12 | We 've heard of a small baby who chewed through a gift and swallowed a battery , and of a granny who bought one of those talking baby dolls for her favourite grandaughter , only to find that it had a vocabulary of four-letter words . |
| 13 | I blinked and looked up at her face again , to find that it held an icy glare . |
| 14 | British town planning , both as a movement and as a profession , found that it had a relevance to wider questions to which it could respond . |
| 15 | On opening it , she found that it contained a note from Ben . |
| 16 | Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet . |
| 17 | He found that it opened a window on the City that he would otherwise never have had . |
| 18 | And then came the bier , its front draped with a shawl to indicate that it carried a woman , which perhaps accounted for the general meagreness of the proceedings . |
| 19 | When he was shown the Demoiselles d'Avignon , Braque appears at first to have been bewildered by it , though he realized that it marked an important new departure . |
| 20 | Maintaining that it had the power to negotiate now that there was a common market for air transport , the Commission said it would be better if the EC negotiated key accords with major competitors such as the US and Asia . |
| 21 | Maintaining that it had the power to negotiate now that there was a common market for air transport , the Commission said it would be better if the EC negotiated key accords with major competitors such as the US and Asia . |
| 22 | He ducked under the thief 's sword arm and brought his own blade around in an arc so incompetently misjudged that it hit the man flat-first and jolted out of the wizard 's hand . |
| 23 | When he changed from an acoustic to an electric guitar so overloaded that it made the windows of the little studios rattle , you could still sometimes hear his feet rapping on the boards and the irregular chord sequences and the trademark himmahimmahimm drifting through the air . |
| 24 | Nothing was new in this White Paper : it was emphasized that it provided an outline of a long-term strategy rather than a programme of rapid action , so it was generally regarded as a due statement of concern and good intentions , and little more . |
| 25 | Reagan 's testimony was released on Feb. 22 after the Justice Department ruled that it contained no classified information . |
| 26 | On the contrary , if the student body were to take its right to learn ( Lernfreiheit ) seriously , and were to be vigilant in seeing that it enjoyed the kinds of academic freedom I spelt out earlier , it would necessarily take on an assertive role . |
| 27 | The English discouraged the colony , the Spanish first watched it carefully to see that it showed no sign of succeeding and eventually in 1700 they captured it . |
| 28 | The Lord Chief Justice , Lord Lane , admitted that it did a bench of magistrates no ‘ credit if their clerk continues to affix standard conditions to bail forms even while applications are being made for unconditional bail ’ . |
| 29 | Restriction analysis of the rescued plasmid revealed that it had the expected structure . |
| 30 | Resisters argued that it opened the way for a return to prewar politics . |