Example sentences of "[that] [vb past] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LES FERDINAND was yesterday drafted into the England squad for the World Cup qualifier against Turkey , the country that helped re-launch his career . |
| 2 | And a performance that helped make him the Queen Mum 's favourite . |
| 3 | Appeared in 22 Carry Ons , including Carry On With The Same Old Camp Jokes That Helped Make Gay People A Hated Minority . |
| 4 | Darkroom work for Cecil Beaton ( whom he also regularly photographed ) and for Peter Rose Pulham ( whose studio he took over in Berkeley Square when the latter went to Paris to become a painter ) provided Goodman with the visual stimulus that helped create his most imaginative work . |
| 5 | The Scots spirit of liberty , frustrated at home , had been exported to magnify the noble principles that helped create a new world across the wide Atlantic . |
| 6 | During July , the entire area paid lasting tribute to an aircraft that helped open up not just this town , but hundreds like it all over Canada . |
| 7 | The 12-pounder exposed on a turntable mounting , the mortars and the oerlikons all fired at the flashes of German guns , as did the commandos in the MLs , firing brens in a pre-arranged fire-plan that helped conserve ammunition . |
| 8 | They are paying tribute to Prime Minister Robert Mugabe 's policy of reconciliation , which had forestalled the kind of ‘ white flight ’ from the commercial sector that helped cripple the modernizing economies of African countries in the 1960s . |
| 9 | This is the image , from Whitley Strieber 's Communion book , that helped sell the book that launched the film that … |
| 10 | The Yoko-like presence of a Greek Cypriot called Osmand Raif , Justin 's martial arts ‘ flexibility instructor ’ and personal masseur , was one of the things that helped rub Cloughie up the wrong way . |
| 11 | So I was continually forced into learning new stuff very quickly , and that helped develop my ear . ’ |
| 12 | But will Charles and Diana ever find happiness in the homes that helped tear them apart ? |
| 13 | It was Robson 's return four games ago that helped spark a maximum haul of 12 points . |
| 14 | Maybe it was the flat calm , almost dead timbre of her voice that helped convince him , because a heavy frown made him look angry . |
| 15 | In return Televisa provided slanted news coverage that helped keep the Institutional Revolutionary Party eternally in power . |
| 16 | The Orange/Matamp GT120 , the beefy 1960s British amp that helped define the sound of bands like Free , Wishbone Ash and the original Fleetwood Mac , is available again as part of the Matamp ‘ Roots ’ range , with only one big difference — it 's green . |
| 17 | Most had nothing at all to say about it and those that did comment relied to a large extent on a discourse and terminology borrowed from the ‘ agenda setting nexus ’ of mainstream criticism . |
| 18 | America 's economic sanctions failed to dislodge General Manuel Noriega but squeezed the economy dry ; the invasion that did dislodge him left a war-battered city , with some 18,000 people homeless and unemployment soaring . |
| 19 | Loads of them , with varying degrees of politeness , refused to have anything to do with us , and , of those that did reply , over half ( see pages 34 to 37 ) appear to loathe , despise and abominate us . |
| 20 | Some ingenious souls have even gone so far as to suggest that the correct attitude to fat , which makes sense in nutritional , agronomic and culinary terms is to aim in general at eating a low-fat diet , and at one in which most of the fat in the diet is polyunsaturated : but to ensure that the small amount of saturated fat that did creep in is as delectable as possible , which , of course , with slight deference to beef dripping , means butter . |
| 21 | I belong to the Community Oxford Health Authority not to the Family Health Services Authority , so that 's just to clarify that , that did cover two questions that I was asked . |
| 22 | Many were closed , but local authorities began pressing government to permit them to charge and reduce the cost of providing the new nurseries that did continue . |
| 23 | The only flower that did grow in abundance was fireweed ( rosebay willowherb ) , which grew rapidly in the years after the war to cover the bomb sites with its purple flowers and to fill the air with its cottony wisps of seeds . ) |
| 24 | Er it 's difficult for people to appreciate today er the amount of political activity that took place during this early thirty period , and it 's pe difficult for people to appreciate the political understanding that did exist over this period . |
| 25 | There was no taboo on incest , any constraints that did exist on hu on human beings ' mating preferences were dictated by the primal fathers . |
| 26 | I think everyone 's got their own ways of dealing with them , you know certainly some people ignore them , you know I prefer to ignore them rather than taunt them , er possibly because I was n't really friendly with any of them that did go back , I think people who were close friends have found it very awkward and I know even now they 're probably looking daggers at each other you know , that sort of thing . |
| 27 | And what I was gon na say Alan was , perhaps like Mr you know we had one of the ones sitting here that did go up to two services . |
| 28 | ‘ The place that did give him a job was the Irish Catholic paper The Standard , which had a very funny editor who just liked to drink most of the day and was amused by Patrick and hired him as film critic . |
| 29 | Then he would remember his own beloved homesite , and whisper to himself of its dour moorland and rough sea coast , and the winds and the rain that did battle with an eagle 's wings . |
| 30 | Well that , that , that did reach a conclusion with the solicitors , did n't it ? |