Example sentences of "that they [vb past] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 2 | There had been stone dragons , and jade dragons so delicate that they disintegrated at a puff of breath . |
| 3 | One of them made crochet toilet-seat covers that they sold at the shop . |
| 4 | But it 's not part of the the police case here , that they knew at the time that they entered the flat . |
| 5 | He would n't let me pay that for it , he said that they had at the shop . |
| 6 | No , the fact of it was , Diane and her employer might easily have been two different species for the way that they looked at the world . |
| 7 | The interesting points to note for both papers are that they emerged at a time when the SDP , a party of the middle-ground , was in the ascendant , and that neither moved to the ‘ left ’ , not even the social democratic ‘ left ’ , in the 1987 election . |
| 8 | Soldiers initially alleged that they fired at the car after it had driven through an army checkpoint and hit a soldier . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman may not have noted the fact that we continue to encourage the Malawian Government to apply the principles of accountable government that they endorsed at the Harare Heads of Government meeting . |
| 10 | The talks were the most significant in a 15-month series of deputy foreign ministerial level discussions in that they occurred at a time when the two countries appeared to be on the verge of restoring full diplomatic relations . |
| 11 | Individuals in that generation of whom we know most seem to have grappled uncertainly with how to deal with their growing understanding of and revulsion from the slave trade ; sometimes it was almost to their own surprise that they arrived at a commitment sufficiently deep to devote a major portion of their time and energies to the cause . |