Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken was mowing the lawn that afternoon . |
| 2 | ‘ Beineix dares much , pushing farce as far as it will go while simultaneously building the momentum that catapults the film into its tragic destination . |
| 3 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 4 | But you see , using the offset that case be I do n't know what 's |
| 5 | They 're all very similar He , or they , manipulated the notion that similarity , they manipulated proximity by varying the distance between the two brackets , the two pair of brackets . |
| 6 | Alarmed , Marjorie made an appointment to see the vet that evening . |
| 7 | He shrugged it off , not convinced that his concern was necessary because she was unlikely to see the man that evening and in the morning there could be an arrest . |
| 8 | On his television programme last week , Barry Norman advised viewers not to take their wives to see The Hand that Rocks the Cradle . |
| 9 | We teachers need actually to say to the children that they are going to enjoy the work that day , that it will be interesting , and that they are going to know or be able to do things at the end of the day that they did n't know or were n't able to do before . |
| 10 | The layout was already there but I have to admit that , given the choice , I would n't necessarily have designed the garden that way . |
| 11 | Cos he did n't know the name that night . |
| 12 | Only on his way home did he suddenly realize that illness could have prevented her from meeting him , and only when he entered the farmhouse that evening did he discover that she was dead . |
| 13 | Photographs usually sustained the illusion that time could briefly be halted , but in this case … |
| 14 | He writes the song that way so it fits in with his playing ; he does n't play guitar any other way now so it 's become quite natural for him . |
| 15 | As a tragic postscript , a mounted Indian approached the battleground that afternoon . |
| 16 | The village boys had caught the cassowary that morning , coming on her suddenly in the bush and chasing her down a long slope . |
| 17 | It has impressed but it has to have the right tools if it is going to provide the safety that councillor referred to and the saving of life which was referred to by councillor . |
| 18 | Like others who visited the embassy that day , they found the hallway full of luggage , packed and labelled for England . |
| 19 | A headmaster is claiming that the craze for the Teenage Mutant Hero Ninja Turtles , is encouraging aggression and promoting the belief that might is right . |
| 20 | But one of these wives was already dead ; and it was a man , ’ said Morse slowly , ‘ and not a woman , who hired the car that afternoon . |
| 21 | and you think part of the fear is er Russian causing the fear that communism is now spread three fold around the world . |
| 22 | The parent warns the child that time out will be used if he or she does not do as he or she is told . |
| 23 | He would do the operation that night . |
| 24 | On Monday I was very kindly invited to a dinner party given by Lord and Lady Hanson to celebrate the opening that morning of the new Radio Melody Station on FM104.9 , and for Mr and Mrs Frank Sinatra , at Santini 's Restaurant . |
| 25 | Plato 's conclusion that time is actually produced by the universe was not accepted by Aristotle ( 384–322 BC ) , who rejected the idea that time can be identified with any form of motion or change . |
| 26 | They 'd seen the film that summer at Abbotsfield . |
| 27 | Someone must have seen the boy that night . |
| 28 | It happened at the time of the National Junior Championships in Nottingham and we had n't seen the television that morning . |
| 29 | Erm simply to remind you of the position of of Selby District in in that our interest in a new settlement emerged out of concern for the quality of life in existing villages in in Selby district , and concerns for the impact of future peripheral development in those villages , and not just peripheral development on the edge of York , although of course we acknowledge that as an important consideration and it is for that reason that we fully supported the County Council 's proposals in relation to greenbelt , erm you asked the question earlier in relation to the P P G advice and and the six criteria , erm in fact I 've already rehearsed that argument in my submission so I wo n't repeat it now , erm the fact that you chose to phrase the question that way I 'll take as a good omen as to the way I presented my submission , but it it it 's there for you to read again , the the the main point that I want to address is something that was raised by Mr Wincup yesterday , and that was the difference or not as between Selby district and Hambledon district , er M Mr Jewitt 's made reference earlier to his opposition to the new settlement , and in doing so he he he mentioned the settlement pattern in Hambledon district , he 'll correct me if I 'm wrong , but one of small dispersed villages , well in Selby district we do have villages of that nature , but the Northern part of of Selby district is significantly deferent to Hambledon , it 's characterized by much larger villages , and in fact the establishment of a new settlement would n't conflict with with the settlement pattern at all . |
| 30 | Everyone in the House and beyond regrets the fact that unemployment rises . |