Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 2 | Of these , the set that I selected for careful examination within the main projects is the ( pull ) set , which deals with alternation between [ u ] and [ Δ ] in a set of lexical items such as pull , put , foot , shook . |
| 3 | No I do n't , I think I can , you witness that I paid for this wo n't you ? |
| 4 | That might in itself imply that she felt for some reason that she would be suspected , or perhaps she knew who the killer was and preferred to keep quiet . |
| 5 | On the reverse of each plate is Cicely Mary Barker 's original poem that she penned for each fairy . |
| 6 | She had told him that Brenda was obsessively vegetarian , and that she longed for red meat : would he take her out ? |
| 7 | Now that she knew for certain that she could n't marry him , her first impulse was to call him up and tell him so . |
| 8 | The very fact that terms like ‘ dissenter ’ and ‘ nonconformist ’ made no sense in America shows the attraction that she held for English Nonconformists : America to them was what England might become . |
| 9 | Before that she worked for several companies in Taiwan , the last one being Coca-Cola . |
| 10 | We were given to understand that you asked for this article . ’ |
| 11 | The warmth and affection that we felt for each other will always be with me . |
| 12 | Now for all those reasons madame speaker , this these orders er er today are inadequate , too little , too late , we ca n't vote against them , much as the the member who preceded me seemed inclined to vote against them and I wish that he had the g er the guts of 'is cu the courage of his convictions er he should vote against them , er we on this side are far more responsible er than that because to vote against them er might be an indication that we 're as much in frau in favour of fraud as members on the other side of the house , er we 're not in favour of fraud , we welcome any progress to detection of fraud , even progress that we asked for five eight years ago when the relevant legislation was passed . |
| 13 | We 're also taking another four hundred thousand out of budgets that we had for planned improvements in staffing as well . |
| 14 | But that has been in the past and that was a thing that we had for several years had A level plays actually on the stage am I correct ? |
| 15 | And er there will also be details about er the targets that we set for that particular project . |
| 16 | A parallel-group study with 24 children given half the dose of evening primrose oil that we used for 4 weeks , demonstrated a significant difference between active and placebo groups , a finding that we can not explain . |
| 17 | I would imagine the plaster wall have to be replaced cos there 's a lot of work that needs to be done on t we 've already had to deal with the plastering once , in fact we would n't have noticed cos we had n't seen it before but what happened is that the the frame of the hall particularly shrank so that we had gaps in between where the plastering was and where the wood was and we had to have a couple of men that we used for this , erm come in with lime plaster and fill in all the cracks for a week or two . |
| 18 | Why did you go on about that erm place where you went for that beer and you know , you said that we worked for that |
| 19 | Throughout the proceedings people were conscious that they spoke for all Zuwaya , addressing each other formally as ‘ You , Zuwayi there ’ and referred to themselves collectively as ‘ We Zuwaya ’ . |
| 20 | Wind , rain , chemical erosion gradually wear into it and the stone that they used for some of the repair of the cathedral in the years gone by has n't worn as well as we would have hoped . |
| 21 | Enough has been said even in this brief review to make the point that when men wished to designate sanctity or degrees of sanctity it was to the hierarchy of precious substances that they turned for appropriate symbols . |
| 22 | So greatly did they enjoy the celebrations that they stayed for three days . |
| 23 | They were sold in tiny cages by little boys who poked them so that they chirruped for potential customers , for the feistiness of a cicada is judged by the pitch and quality of its song . |
| 24 | So ‘ fit ’ and so well adapted were they , and so successfully did they dominate their terrestrial environment , that they survived for 140 million years . |
| 25 | Instead their lasting legacy and major influence was the legitimacy that they gave for local politics to be reduced to urban politics , which in turn consisted solely of issues concerning collective consumption . |
| 26 | The reasons that they gave for this varied considerably . |
| 27 | One of the important characteristics of those moves was the support that it represented for British liberalisation policies . |
| 28 | David Lloyd , his captain at Lancashire , tells a story that once in a Gillette Cup match against Gloucestershire at Old Trafford , Clive Lloyd edged a ball from Mike Procter so hard that it went for six . |
| 29 | We had nothing at all to live on ; but one day I received a sum of money that we managed to divide up so that it lasted for many weeks , just so much a day . |
| 30 | The swan became so attached to Sam that it stayed for twelve years . |