Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was then that Chuck had carried out a quick examination of the unconscious Grant , to ascertain the extent of his injuries . |
| 2 | Although unconfirmed at the time , rumours that DEC had struck up a deal with Auspex Systems Inc , the Santa Clara , California network server company that already counts IBM among its customers , have turned out to be correct ( UX No 384 ) . |
| 3 | The Manager was the next to leave , promising that his secretary could very quickly produce thirty photocopies of the brief questionnaire that Morse had roughed out : |
| 4 | Of course , if she had been going to get there in time for the beginning , she should have rushed back straight away , out upset at such times was the very worst thing for her mother and it would upset her to think that Peony wanted to go out immediately she 'd got in . |
| 5 | Or perhaps it was merely an accident that Marcus had picked up those utterances of his ancestors . |
| 6 | At the earlier hearing , Sheriff Reid had heard that Walters had dreamt up the fraud after a Jersey-based financier had failed to come up with cash to back market research for a new board game . |
| 7 | Franca was relieved that Alison had given up her guilty peepings and hintings and attempts at relevant conversation ; only now her calmness and at-homeness were proving equally maddening . |
| 8 | The final outfit was one that Alison had brought along with her . |
| 9 | What they failed to recognise was that Sarah had grown up . |
| 10 | Erm , as we know , Bullitt was a member of the delegation and an intimate of , of Wilson , so the book is er co- authored , so in a sense we should know as we 're paying for , for all of it , because er , obviously , he relied on Bullitt to give him all this biographical information , and er , consequently what you see Freud doing in this in this book is , is er trawling through , as it were , the things that Bullitt told him , that , that Bullitt had found out , to erm , draw a kind of psy psychoanalytic portrait of Woodrow Wilson , that erm , tried to explain his problem , why did he not deliver the goods as it were . |
| 11 | Basically that David had moved out of Plaistow Grove to leave her on her own to die , to live with the fancy whore from America , and yet on other days , of course , I was perfectly lovely and would come and shop with her and do everything . |
| 12 | But we stuck with the same tune that Wally had come up with . |
| 13 | It was the second time in successive World Cup ties that Leighton had let down his colleagues . |
| 14 | In my talk I mentioned a number of specific things that Scott had brought about for Scotland as the result of his friendship with George IV . |
| 15 | A report in the Financial Times of Feb. 19 claimed that ULFA had stepped up violent attacks in February and had proved itself very much intact despite a large Army presence in the state . |
| 16 | Charlie stared up at his mother 's framed photo that Becky had hung on the wall . |
| 17 | They felt they 'd been made fools of … and the ring is some sort of family heirloom and his father went on as if it was all Rick 's fault that Angy had made off with it . ’ |
| 18 | I 'd guessed that Downes wanted to go back to his car to hide something , so I played along with all that hearing-aid rubbish . |
| 19 | I could also see the rock that Neil had pointed out to me , still half out of water . |
| 20 | Imagine , then , that Mandela had written down the story of his life , and that the manuscript was for sale . |
| 21 | Indeed , this week was the first time that Graf had joined up with Kohde-Kilsch since the Olympics . |
| 22 | She clung to the belief that Friend had sneaked down the wires through Karel 's network and one day he would come to rescue her … . |
| 23 | He had almost decided that Marie had run out like that because she had found Bella dead or dying . |
| 24 | One of the girls made a crack that Rachaela had put on weight due to the food . |
| 25 | Speech could have grafted onto gesture once the vocal tract had developed sufficiently , with selective advantages that Darwin had remarked on . |
| 26 | ‘ I knew that Frank had to grow up , after five years , ’ said the star , ‘ or he would seem a complete idiot . |
| 27 | The creature that Fergus had carried in was sipping the milk , crouched , shivering , near to the fire . |
| 28 | About eleven I noticed that Nigel had dozed off with a smile still on his face . |
| 29 | ‘ At least you left Fernando on good terms , ’ he went on as he pulled up in front of the stone steps of the mansion that Ruth had fled down a century ago . |
| 30 | Her garter belt was a pre-war birthday present , and she wore a pair of the precious nylons that Sylvia had brought back from the States . |