Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pron] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was therefore with some disappointment that we faced Dad 's inquiries about them next morning . |
| 2 | Big John McCormick had had a distinguished career in Scotland , where he had been on the verge of international honours while playing with now defunct Third Lanark and at Aberdeen , but it was , amazingly , as a makeweight that he came south to Crystal Palace . |
| 3 | ‘ I was so sure I got silver that I congratulated Lance and climbed out of the pool , ’ he commented as this one Gold medal verdict more than any helped speed acceptance of the touch-pad timing that has now become standard . |
| 4 | Such battalions had the additional valve that they made liaison practicable between the UDA and the law and order sensitive rural paramilitary organisations and kept open a bridge of respectability into UDA circles over which even pre-election politicians could come and go . |
| 5 | It 's more the affair with a possible future that devastates — the emotional betrayal and the recognition that he gave part of himself and what should have been your time and your lives to another person . ’ |
| 6 | The parties in Kalmykia were offered interest-free loans on condition that they abandoned politics and went into business . |
| 7 | Supposing the Government made a grant to starving nations of £1,000 million on condition that they bought food from us to that value , what would be the effect ? |
| 8 | On Jan. 28 Uri Lubrani , Israel 's co-ordinator of government activities in Lebanon , said in an interview with Middle East Television that Israel did not object to the Lebanese government deploying its army in southern Lebanon on condition that it took action against terrorist organizations and did not support them . |
| 9 | But it was the unanimous view of the board that it manifested contempt towards the divinity of Christ by presenting him as a living man , not a symbol , and as the object of overt sexual passion . |
| 10 | You can take that tin that you got in er you can take that tin as a pencil case that you got pardon ? |
| 11 | She had come to the Centre in the depths of despair , weeping , gnashing her teeth and venting her hatred upon the doctors who had told her , at the eleventh hour that she had cancer and nothing could be done . |
| 12 | But it was n't till after school the following afternoon that I found time to go . |
| 13 | Even Sidney and Beatrice Webb , in their classic history of trade unionism , said of the Act that it gave trade unions ‘ an extra-ordinary and unlimited immunity , however great may be the damage caused , and however unwarranted the act , which most lawyers as well as all employers , regard as nothing less than monstrous ’ . |
| 14 | Penson gave David Davies the job of preparing the foundations , embankment and approach road for the iron bridge over the Severn in the ‘ top sawyer 's ’ home town of Llandinam and was so pleased with his work that he recommended payment of an additional £15 over and above the contract price agreed . |
| 15 | It was said by his acquaintances in the pub that he gave value for money , but there was a touch of genius in the way he talked that night . |
| 16 | However , the American-made McCulloch Blower Vac that we tested cost £120 , and is targeted at the private buyer with a large garden . |
| 17 | To such a degree that I had hold of P C . |
| 18 | Now that Jack Kuehler has persuaded Louis Gerstner to let him go in August — we should have pointed out in yesterday 's issue that he reached retirement age last year and only stayed on because he was pressed to stick around awhiles longer by John Akers , returnee and vice-chairman Paul Rizzo gets additional powers , at least temporarily : four parts of IBM that had reported to Kuehler — its semiconductor , software , AS/400 and personal systems operations — will report to Rizzo . |
| 19 | So after completing my National Service , I did all the things that everybody does when they 're trying to break into show business , urged on by my father 's insistence that I found employment of some sort — ‘ Get a job , any job , just get one ! |
| 20 | The hirer sued the owner of the excavator as vicariously liable for the driver 's negligence , and the owner set up clause 8 of the contract as a defence , on the basis that it transferred liability for the driver 's actions to the hirer . |
| 21 | He has dismissed as ‘ dirtying , disgusting and unfair ’ charges in Time and the Washington Post that he took part in a gang rape at the age of nine . |
| 22 | It was at this point that I came face to face with the realisation that human beings could be studied like other animals , and I went on , past chimpanzees , to investigate the behaviour of this strange creature that I christened The Naked Ape . |
| 23 | Often in the past he had tried to keep her in bed in the morning , but always she had pushed off his sleep-drugged advances with a brusque reminder that she had work to do , stubbornly shutting her mind to the tenderness of a few hours before . |
| 24 | Sukarno had demonstrated once again in a crisis that he represented unity . |
| 25 | And then he added , ‘ I was talking to one of Big Joe 's bouncers and it was his opinion that she got wind of what was to happen , before they had time to give her a dose , likely . |
| 26 | The front-runner has kept his ill-starred record , in Brown 's words , as ‘ the scandal-a-week candidate ’ with his recent admission after years of slippery circumlocution that he smoked marijuana when a student at Oxford 22 years ago . |
| 27 | Christians claim that what happened on Good Friday was decisive for humankind — it was of such a definitive , absolute nature that it split world history in two and it declares that the many strands of human experience ( hope , joy , peace , human fulfilment ) run through the crossroads of the cross . |
| 28 | The rift was revealed yesterday when a charge that he attacked lover Joanna Gibson was dropped at her request in court . |
| 29 | He went into the whole ritual and found nothing open to the charge that it encouraged superstition . |
| 30 | ’ They kidnapped Richard ‘ and smytinge the said Margerie so being with childe that she fell downe as a dead woman there they let her lye , the which was the cause of the saide childe 's deth . ’ |