Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Imperial Governor could only ever heed truly weighty wasps that sought to tear that web apart — not the myriad mites that bit one another . |
| 2 | Timber , that were all loose timber that was during the war , six weeks , six weeks that took to unload that ship . |
| 3 | ‘ You remember you asked me to see if I could find out who it was that had sent that news item about Leila in to Al-Liwa . ’ |
| 4 | Was she implying to herself that she did n't want anything to spoil the new friendly relationship that had arisen that evening ? |
| 5 | The grey clouds that had prevailed that morning began to break up , promising a fine afternoon . |
| 6 | A big ego so utterly ungracious and another big ego , Niki 's , that had to swallow that kind of shit . |
| 7 | Rory giggled weakly , then lay back against the pillows , suddenly overwhelmed by everything that had happened that day , not least by the totally uncharacteristic tenderness in his voice . |
| 8 | In her hand she held the letter from England that had come that morning and Wilson knew what it contained : news of Miss Henrietta , of Mrs Surtees Cook , who was mortally ill with cancer of the womb . |
| 9 | If the poor in model lodging-houses ‘ are kept in bondage , and made to feel that bondage ’ , a more enlightened view in relation to art wishes to persuade them ‘ to adorn their rooms plentifully with a better class of pictures ’ . |
| 10 | I schemed and schemed to get that key , but Irina was too clever for me . |
| 11 | We had successful launches of Home Purchaser in 1992 and Critical & Income Protection in 1992 and decided to repeat that format . |
| 12 | He had never wanted her to be given in marriage to Dom João , and had seen that gentleman 's non-arrival as a good way of calling off the match should Sara wish it . |
| 13 | As John Stalker ( 1988 ) pointed out when he retired from the service , he had made the transition and had joined that group of persons pejoratively known to the police as ‘ civilians ’ . |
| 14 | During 1964 Crawford made The Knack … and how to get it , his first of three films with director Richard Lester , who had been a writer of The Goon Show on radio and had taken that brand of surrealism to film-making , using a new-wave style that reflected the mood of the Swinging Sixties and the idea that the world was being turned upside down . |
| 15 | The commission concluded that the army 's Chief of Staff had personally ordered the raid , in which three women were raped and many students were severely beaten , and had recommended that action be taken against him . |
| 16 | Later on the same page he makes this challenging statement ‘ If any of us actually had the power to release souls from purgatory and refused to exercise that power except in return for a payment of money he would be considered cruel and unchristian — which indeed he would be . ’ |