Example sentences of "[vb past] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | She intended to slap Elisabeth on the back , but she was too late ; Elisabeth had made a dash for fresh air and Mitzi 's arm met that of Elisabeth 's chair . |
| 2 | An artist I met that evening at Dr Caskie 's suggested that I exchange my tourist food permit for a civil emergency ration card , and do my own marketing and cooking . |
| 3 | So was it any surprise that the Syrians we met that hot day in the Bekaa wanted only to maintain Lebanon 's Maronite-dominated institutions , to restore the sovereignty of the Lebanese government , to stay not one hour , not one minute longer than necessary ? |
| 4 | Mr. Gordon never had a look in after Brown Owl met that pilot . |
| 5 | Our Tory MP did jump off his LandRover to shake my hand and take one of my leaflets the other day , but as far as I could tell I was the only voter he met that morning . |
| 6 | It had without doubt been a day to remember and now whenever I look at my LNWR Boilerhouse Private plate , I think of poor unfortunate Fred Grisenthwaite and his tragic demise , and then recall the Railway Hotel bar room and the kind friends I met that night . |
| 7 | Well , those beautiful ones , those beautiful heads and things he did after he met that girl called Marie-Thérèse Walter I always think those are so beautiful . |
| 8 | It was n't until the fourth hide was reached that I met that extraordinary bird , the red-necked phalarope . |
| 9 | At its greatest extent in the late eleventh century the Croatian kingdom reached down to the Neretva , where its frontier met that of medieval Serbia . |
| 10 | Secondly there must be an efficient method of getting the information displayed on the screen onto the paper and the PostScript page description language met that requirement to a tee . |
| 11 | You met that man last night , Stephen . |
| 12 | We met that evening and she asked me straight out if I 'd be interested in an exclusive story : a scandal affecting a government minister . |
| 13 | How has the Secretary of State met that point in the council tax ? |
| 14 | Not even in Paradise Street had Rose met that phenomenon . |
| 15 | He also admitted that on the balance of their performances against Brazil , England and Argentina this autumn , his side clearly lacked that extra something . |
| 16 | To watch Reutemann on a tennis court , for instance , was painful ; even Hunt , a splendid athlete , really lacked that sort of fluency which expresses real ‘ style ’ ; Jody Scheckter , doing almost anything , was incredibly clumsy . |
| 17 | But it may be that , as men of little social consequence , they lacked that sensitivity to personal relationships on which the aristocratic society of the tenth and eleventh centuries had depended ; for the newcomers , what was sauce for the goose was likely to be sauce for the gander . |
| 18 | Mm yeah well I posted that one today for you . |
| 19 | I posted that flym umm edger trimmer guarantee . |
| 20 | Steve Jobs recently prophesied that desktop publishing as a separate market would be dead within two years and he 's quite probably right . |
| 21 | Oh you broke that , sprung that one on us |
| 22 | A leading Western authority on the reincorporation of the nationalities into the Soviet Union opined that of all the minorities the Belorussians had the weakest urge to set themselves apart . |
| 23 | Freddie Head , rider of Pistol Packer , opined that ‘ Mill Reef was the best horse I 've ever seen ’ , and the French press compared him with the horse whose stunning victory in the Arc six years earlier had marked him out as the very best horse of the era : ‘ Comme Sea Bird II — mais plus vite ’ , raved Paris-Turf He was indeed plus vite , for his Arc time of 2 minutes 28.3 seconds set a new course record . |
| 24 | He opined that Band Aid was diabolical and that Geldof was a ‘ nauseating character ’ . |
| 25 | To underline the point , he opined that interrogator Fells would be a very different chap if deprived of his car , telephone and bow tie . |
| 26 | increase , and he doubled that increased salary in the following year . |
| 27 | ‘ You 've got all that additional tension which readers are bound to recognize , ’ burbled that smug art-school voice on the telephone this morning . |
| 28 | Yakovlev realized this , and recommended that party men be sent out in large numbers from Moscow and the guberniia towns . |
| 29 | In a contentious paragraph , which was opposed by Tite and Wilson , the Report said that the Committee had examined Pennethorne 's scheme , as well as those awarded the first three places on the Foreign Office list , and recommended that ‘ preference should be given to the successful competitors ’ . |
| 30 | This must put the Canadian health minister in a similar position to Britain 's Kenneth Clarke , when his advisory committee recommended that last year Depo-Provera should get a licence . |