Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , lust was n't ugly ; many of her friends ' affairs and marriages were founded on mutual lust and a few had stayed that way , neither foundering nor developing into something richer and more complex ; but for her it could never be enough , even in the context of a mere beginning , and , after the depressing end of the relationship in Wellington , she knew that even if it had been allied to liking or affection , it still would n't have been enough . |
| 2 | The reality was that few had attained that ambition though some had tried . |
| 3 | Few had come that way since the Deosil Gate had been one of the first to collapse in a shower of white-hot embers . |
| 4 | Suppose the English refused to release that youth under some pretext , the father would be much constrained . |
| 5 | It took me nearly twenty minutes to talk her out of the loo , finally having to promise that Nevil was not a friend , that he would n't call the police and that there would be no need for Mr and Mrs Binkworthy to know anything untoward had happened that afternoon . |
| 6 | For a long time she waited , and nothing more terrible came to enter that silence than her own dark imaginings . |
| 7 | But there were exceptions : Gregory of Tours denied the claims of one would-be king called Munderic , who was crushed by Theuderic I. Chlothar I refused to acknowledge that Gundovald was his son , but there were others who thought that he was . |
| 8 | ‘ I first tried to get that kind of raspy voice that comes when the vocal cords have broken down . |
| 9 | Now how much stronger had become that barrier ! |
| 10 | Damning her weakness , as rebellion started to stir , she damned her circumstances too that had provoked that weakness . |
| 11 | The clerk expressed the view that they contained inadmissible material because of the hearsay rule and he took the view that the evidence was inadmissible despite the relevant provisions of the Children Act 1989 designed to overcome that difficulty . |