Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The savagery in his face was such a horrifying contrast to his recent ardour that Isabel shrank back in terror , stumbling over one of the benches . |
| 2 | She loved the hot stews that Minton produced out of the oven when they returned from the pub . |
| 3 | It is high time that Wolverhampton got round to proposing some reorganisations . |
| 4 | It was at this point , with Ferrari flushed with success , and as usual — like an Italian after a filling bowl of pasta — somnolent in regard to the future , that Montezemolo went back to Fiat and a successor had to be found . |
| 5 | It is only a couple of years ago that Jenkins rejected out of hand the Wales involvement he has now taken on , and — until Davies and the Wales manager , Robert Norster , beat their path to his door — he has tended to use the expression ‘ poisoned chalice ’ whenever anyone sounded out his interest or rather the lack of it . |
| 6 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's not quite as easy as that , ’ she said , her voice so full of sympathy that Dana looked up in alarm . |
| 8 | Years later I learnt that Hodson went down to Sussex and told the headmaster that if he beat either of us again he would have him taken to court . |
| 9 | On CEEFAX and TELETEXT it implied that Cuntona got off with the rap . |
| 10 | In 1954 he published Archaeology from the Earth , an instruction book on field archaeology ; many modern excavation techniques have their origins in the principles that Wheeler set out in that book . |
| 11 | All she could think of was that they 'd all been in on this — a kind of family Mafia , working behind the scenes to make sure that Lucenzo ended up with everything , his empire untouched . |
| 12 | They set it tilted for a moment , leaning one side on a stone that Luch slipped under for them , while Ruari listened and sniffed and weighed the hive in his hand . |
| 13 | They had a report that Gilbey hurried off to the Lotus HQ , laughing as Styczynski shouted : ‘ Are you going to sort out this mess , mate ? ’ |
| 14 | His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 . |
| 15 | His pleasure was that England went on to their first home victory against the West Indies since 1969 . |
| 16 | TV replays showed that Saunders went in with his foot raised and came down on Elliott 's leg as they both steamed into a full-blooded 50-50 clash . |
| 17 | The reader thus gets both the historian's-eye view and a stage-by-stage account of the death of the multinational federation that Tito set up in 1945 and ruled until his death in 1980 . |
| 18 | The fact that Christopher turned out to be an east European too hardly caused a ripple in Jane . |
| 19 | The first thing that Nigel got down to was , as I expected , fixing up his hi-fi , and on our very first evening that vast area reverberated with the great big beautiful noise of ‘ Also sprach Zarathustra ’ , so I felt truly at home . |
| 20 | His father , however , preferred that Farrar went in for a professional career , and Farrar was articled to a firm of architects and surveyors in Northampton , becoming a Fellow of the Geographical Society . |
| 21 | If you 're looking to explain the televisualisation of Tinseltown , then perhaps it 's not just a coincidence that Marshall started out in TV : acting in , then directing Laverne And Shirley , a spin-off from the Fifties nostalgia sitcom Happy Days . |
| 22 | But it is also clear that Denning started off with a presumption that everyone involved was innocent and that at some stage he had personal doubts as to whether this was indeed so . |
| 23 | On the nights that Elaine went out with her friends , he went out on the prowl . |
| 24 | It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods . |
| 25 | The newt at Aughton is the emblem of Robert Aske , and it was from here that Aske set out in 1536 to lead the Pilgrimage of Grace against the religious reforms of Henry VIII . |
| 26 | He said this with such hatred that Oliver woke up from fear . |
| 27 | A malfunctioning main undercarriage gear meant that NAA missed out on a $ 250,000 bonus for exceeding Mach One on the first flight . |
| 28 | It was then that O'Connell stepped in with his 49th-minute winner and the 26-year-old midfield man could have had another five minutes later . |
| 29 | It was thus in a disillusioned , self-reproachful mood that Harry walked back to Falmouth Street . |
| 30 | TOMORROW , the day of the London Marathon , Christians will think also of another crowded journey into the capital city , the last time that Jesus went up to Jerusalem with pilgrims from Galilee to take part in the Passover festival , which commemorated the escape of their ancestors from slavery in building the pyramids of Egypt . |