Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If any stranger had come that way it was likely he would think he was following the black road to hell . |
| 7 | His sole had approached that region where dwell the vast hosts of the dead . |
| 8 | A statement from Germany 's Bundesbank seemed to rule that possibility out . |
| 9 | Even Saddam 's propaganda machine failed to bring that lie to life . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As the boy strove to imagine that life , so his countenance rippled , the tattooed spider twitching and convulsing . |
| 12 | With those SDS contacts he journeyed on to the West Coast , where the Vietnam Day Committee had started that May . |
| 13 | If the judge had accepted that submission that would have unlocked the door to the exercise of his discretion under article 13 ( b ) . |
| 14 | Eb Judge had carried that secret with him ever since . |
| 15 | Rain meant to verify that story herself , the duke himself was less than twenty feet away . |
| 16 | The Bretton Woods conference had accepted that adjustment should be borne by surplus as well as deficit countries through including a ‘ scarce-currency clause ’ in the articles of agreement . |
| 17 | Twenty-two years of war had honed that skill to near perfection , and as a result a mother in France would soon be weeping . |
| 18 | Amy had gone into some detail as to how her husband had effected that state of affairs but beyond that , prevented partly by her inexperience , partly by her natural reserve and partly , indeed , by the barrier which Amy 's misery put up , Theodora had not penetrated . |
| 19 | The vendor refused to let that person into the public house . |
| 20 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 21 | The court had heard that Guppy would not give details of one account in Austria because publicity might ‘ compromise ’ someone else . |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman neglected to mention that unemployment in his constituency has fallen by nearly 20 per cent . |
| 23 | Big-hearted Dudley Thomas immediately left his courtroom and returned minutes later clutching the wrapped sandwiches his wife had made that morning . |
| 24 | The Privy Council held that property passed from the seller before the sub-purchaser had tested that goods for weight . |
| 25 | Only shame and pride had prevented that humiliation . |
| 26 | His absence the previous day had brought that home as nothing else had . |
| 27 | By the number of leaf stalks revealed it was discovered how many lies a friend had told that day and a long stalk indicated a big lie . |
| 28 | From then on , by day and night , the garrison laboured to keep that shield of earth between themselves and the sepoys . |
| 29 | C c can you gi give me some clue now a about w when the penny began to drop that trouble was going to g g going to start ? |
| 30 | ‘ Before your father went to receive that money , he came to see me , ’ continued Mr Brownlow slowly , his eyes fixed on Monks ' face . |