Example sentences of "that [vb past] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Substitutions played a big part in setting up the amazing finale that produced three goals in the final five minutes when both defences looked wide open . |
2 | As for happy hours , I 'd say that 50% of pubs in Leeds have a happy hour at least once a day so if you were looking for something to celebrate each and every day then this might come up ( along with the anniversary of the death of the guy who drove the stephenson steam train on it 's maiden journey , and the all too sad occasion of the 7th anniversary of the cat that lived 4 doors down that was callously knocked over by the no. 40 bus ) |
3 | That Clenbuterol , the stimulating steroid that got three Brits sent home , is known to its devotees as Dopers Delight . |
4 | So that divided forty-nine point two three four by ten and it 's as if I 've moved the point one place back . |
5 | There were also the ‘ Popoffkas ’ , two circular Russian battleships that weighed 2,490 tons and went precisely nowhere . |
6 | He was endowed , alas , with a fragile nervous system , so that the strain of it all caused a build-up of neurosis that triggered one heart attack to end his playing career and another dozen years later that ended his life . |
7 | Specific cellular localisation of silver grains , indicating the presence of preproET-1 mRNA , was found over the same cells that demonstrated ET-1 immunostaining . |
8 | Bottom the previous season , Albion finished ninth of 12 in the Wearside League second division , Billy Harker top scoring with 15 of which one , reputedly , was a penalty that bounced three times en route . |
9 | Perhaps the strangest case on record is that described five years ago in The Lancet ( 1978 , vol 2 , p 952 ) by Dr M. Loughhead and two colleagues at the Royal Hobart Hospital , Tasmania . |
10 | The room was flooded with a soft illumination , cleverly directed at the Gobelin tapestries that lined one wall . |
11 | Crusty bread and thick , creamy butter , a huge crisp salad , masses of succulent cold chicken ; there was wine in the fridge too , as well as rows of the stuff in the extensive wine racks that lined one wall of the kitchen . |
12 | The laxative dose was gradually decreased after two to three months to a dose that maintained one bowel movement daily . |
13 | For Washburn 20 years of visual carnage has meant increasing mental instability and a compulsion to uncover the truth behind a murder that occurred 120 years before . |
14 | In April 1982 Cambridgeshire introduced a four-year pilot scheme that involved seven volunteer schools : six secondary , one primary . |
15 | Tim Farron , a slight and boyish figure in a suit that seemed three sizes too big ( but is probably the height of fashion ) is just 21 , the election 's youngest candidate for any of the main parties . |
16 | ‘ We were one of four British teams competing in an event that attracted 19 teams in all and about 2,000 competitors , and we have had a really good time . ’ |
17 | The new set recreated a section of ancient Rome that comprised five streets of fountains , shops , a bakery , a slave market and a chariot repair shop . |
18 | Natal 's Supreme Court recently sentenced Muhammed-Rafiq Rodan , the former news editor of Post Natal , to 15 years in prison for sabotage , including three bombings that injured 17 people . |
19 | Glasgow took to the subway with a will , but an unexpected flood of passengers and an accident that injured 19 people , closed the circles until January the following year , when the Glasgow Subway Railway Company began operations in earnest . |
20 | 1 A gardener planted a special kind of water lily in the middle of a lily pond that measured 1 5m across . |
21 | In 1954 one was washed ashore in Norway that measured 9 metres from the end of its body to the tip of its outstretched tentacles and weighed about a ton . |
22 | Bolt Head sat up , left his desk and walked over to the huge VDU screen that dominated one wall of his office . |
23 | There always is a better use , for no one really needs that faded 1976 memo . |
24 | Sharpe now anticipated another battle ; one for a crossroads that linked two armies . |
25 | To see this double image as joined to a symbol of the grave ‘ that linked one Vincent to the other ’ is not as far-fetched as it appears when one sees the multiplicity of twinned and fused pairs appearing later : pairs of cottages , trees , and chairs , as well as of people on roads or seated at tables , overlapping or merged or shadowed . |
26 | ‘ So long as he ( McCoist ) scores one more than he got in Bruges , I 'll be happy , ’ remarked the manager of the goal machine that stalled two weeks ago . |
27 | Investigations are continuing into the exact cuasee of a crash that turned three husbands into widowers and robbed eight children of their mothers . |
28 | It 's the same Truth that declared 14 months ago that if John Major lost The General Election we should all emigrate . |
29 | Well that happened two years ago did n't it ? |
30 | ‘ David brings up situations that happened five years ago and still writes about them . |