Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The miners ' strike put paid to that stage of the project and Peter returned to the Operations Support Group in London to prepare operating procedures and training manuals for the Ula platform .
2 Poor Law expenditure per head of population in 1904–05 was 10 per cent lower than it had been in 1833–34 , although real income per head had doubled in that period .
3 If evolution had continued in that vein , the elephants and the dormice might have crossed in the middle !
4 Miss Waters was certain that this was so , but she would be most interested to hear how her friend had arrived at that conclusion .
5 Not surprisingly , it was among the southern , pastoral peoples that social stratification had developed by that time , so that the label ‘ feudal ’ is attached , for instance , to the Buryat Mongols and the Tatars .
6 I had hoped that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment had dealt with that point very effectively .
7 ‘ Even at the age of eight years old , I knew how much love had gone into that case … ’
8 She knew that his quizzical golden stare had taken in that blush .
9 It would have been far better if majority voting had applied in that instance .
10 This was a legitimate reaction to a real change : it was , arguably , the price exacted by the nineteenth century from Nonconformist ministers for the multitude of benefits they and Nonconformity had obtained from that century .
11 A similar conclusion emerges from a study by Caplan ( 1972 ) using another reaction time technique in which subjects had to decide whether a target word presented after a two-clause sentence had occurred in that sentence .
12 The Delacroix date put paid to that idea .
13 It did not need the tug of her rein to stop , every ounce of its ability had gone into that leap .
14 Once the glass was full he held it up to the lantern that hung from the awning 's strut and toasted whichever patient had paid for that afternoon 's bonefishing .
15 Well I think if er if what had ha if er I mean before what he had before self regulation was the D T I issued erm certificates to investment management organising , you know , and I think that if er if power had remained on that basis with the D T I , I do n't I 'd be sitting here now .
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