Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one accepts the story of Molla Yegan 's bringing Molla Gurani to the Ottoman court-and there seems no reason not to-then on the basis of what appears to be the fairly firm evidence for this part of Molla Gurani 's career , Molla Yegan 's return from his journey can not be dated earlier than 845/1441–2 ; and on the reasonable assumption that the purpose of Molla Yegan 's journey was to make the pilgrimage , it seems entirely likely that it was in the year 844/1440–1 , the same year that Molla Gurani made his abortive pilgrimage , that Molla Yegan also performed the hajj and that the two met somewhere after that pilgrimage , though clear information about the actual time and place of their meeting is entirely lacking . |
| 2 | The accident rate rose notably from that time ( Labour Research , 1987b ) — a rate not helped by BT 's cut in its safety officers which started in 1985 . |
| 3 | On the , on the down side , some of us felt that the , the actual heading could have been , might get picked up verbatim by a news editor and used almost in that form . |
| 4 | ‘ His acts and his omissions contributed significantly to that lady 's death , ’ Mr Barker claimed . |
| 5 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 6 | Instinctively she shied away from that idea , and accepted then that this interview business was nowhere near as easy as Cara had made out that it would be . |
| 7 | I woke up early , woke naturally during that exam time . |
| 8 | This came partly from that confidence built up in the wide affection of the large family , partly perhaps from the arrogance of the supreme athlete , mostly , though , from his view that writing and learning were the real thing : acting was fine and dandy but not in the same league . |
| 9 | The concert hall capacity is 320 , filled nearly to that figure at weekends or on special occasions but usually it stands empty on weekdays . |
| 10 | Such small British companies as Cricks and Martin , Clarendon , British and Colonial and Urban came nowhere near that level of enterprise . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a miracle to me how Hywel got home in that condition , ’ said Lydia the next day . |
| 12 | I speculated endlessly about that welt . |
| 13 | Zak and Emil arrived together at that point , Emil ready to set the tables for lunch , Zak in theatrical exasperation demanding to know if the actors were to put on the next scene before the meal as originally planned , and if not , when ? |
| 14 | She turned away from that thought , unwilling to look it in the face . |
| 15 | Similar provisions apply to a process ; for example , using the process infringes but , additionally , the patented process may be infringed by using or disposing of , etc. any product obtained directly from that process . |
| 16 | He swung the gun up again , fired wildly at that thrashing form and turned back to the staircase . |
| 17 | Mary Lennox had heard a great deal about Magic in her Ayah 's stories , and she always said what happened almost at that moment was Magic . |
| 18 | So something happened there at that house , we told 'em the house number , where the lamp 's situated , we gave 'em all the information they they need but we still ca n't get any response . |
| 19 | More importantly , I began to write poetry myself , for myself , poetry which I showed to no one and kept hidden in an exercise book reserved explicitly for that purpose . |
| 20 | Looking down the basement steps which led to a paved area from which a door led straight into that kitchen which had secretly housed Bill Egan , he thought he could see that the door was ajar . |
| 21 | They began filming and there must have been something wrong because Bogie just sort of walked straight through the shot , so Eddie says , ‘ Bogie , you walked right through that shot . ’ |
| 22 | I 've always left my bank book locked away in that drawer . ’ |
| 23 | His practice , however , was to be mainly in Scotland , and it developed rapidly from that time . |
| 24 | I felt very alone at that moment , stuck there on that track somewhere in the Andes , my body chill with sweat and my hands still trembling with the nervous tension of getting safely through the rutted mud of the bend . |
| 25 | I do n't think they talked much in that car ; she was still so tense and shocked . |
| 26 | The Irish Union legislation ( see pp.19–21 above ) had provided that the churches should be united and established for ever and the new Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland established apparently on that basis . |
| 27 | This in turn relates to the establishment of the Circum-Antarctic current as first Australia and then South America broke away from that continent , and to the formation of south polar sea ice ( Hallam , 1981c ) . |
| 28 | I ca n't believe you 're telling me the truth because that would mean if everybody worked overtime on that basis , we 'd all still making a profit . |
| 29 | As such , and particularly after Empress Elizabeth 's de facto abolition of the death penalty for criminal offences in 1753 , exile to katorga , followed by perpetual exile in Siberia ( ssylka na katorgu v Sibir ) , was to be retained as the harshest form of punishment in the tsarist penal code until the revolutions of 1917 — though of course it survived far beyond that date under a different dispensation . |
| 30 | Today , it houses municipal authorities , and at ten o'clock last night a bell rang continuously from that direction — ‘ The curfew , ’ said the hotel porter this summer morning in 1991 . |