Example sentences of "that [pron] [noun] [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Were n't , although erm I was told that my father died of that so that er , I should do you mind
2 ‘ I feel proud that my father came from this city , ’ she said slowly .
3 It was not until the Ptolemaic period that its price fell to that obtaining elsewhere in the ancient world .
4 Who could doubt that it was a mother 's failure to have been sufficiently vigilant against the fly menace that her child succumbed to some grievous , infectious illness ?
5 In America , she showed that her sympathies lay with those who favoured abolition of slavery .
6 It was as if she had accepted the fact that her mother had gone out of her life and that her future lay with this big fat woman , who alternately yelled and cajoled , and the nice man called Ben .
7 Camille was quite aware that her mother coped with these unspoken tensions by leaving them like that : unmentioned , if not unnoticed .
8 Denis Healey , nevertheless , had to contend with a wide range of critics , from socialists such as Benn who claimed that his successes resulted from such right-wing nostrums as a wage freeze and cutting public spending , to the monetarists of the Policy Studies Committee who attacked him for being far too dirigiste .
9 He can hardly talk , almost certainly ca n't see and although he was at the funeral probably does n't even realise that his son died in another road accident six months after his .
10 And it was a little later that same night that his lordship said with some gravity , shaking his head : ‘ I fought that war to preserve justice in this world .
11 None of them would necessarily call himself a Daleyite , and Mr Daley would deny that he was creating a Democratic machine anything like the one that his father ran with such effect .
12 Those of us dropping into Dunedin with a touring international or provincial team could usually rely , if things had not gone well for Otago , on Mains later proclaiming that his side had in some way been unfairly treated either by fate or the referee .
13 Out of the corner of her eye , Belinda saw that his glance took in both of them , but she said nothing .
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