Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun sg] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The layout was already there but I have to admit that , given the choice , I would n't necessarily have designed the garden that way . |
| 2 | The village boys had caught the cassowary that morning , coming on her suddenly in the bush and chasing her down a long slope . |
| 3 | They 'd seen the film that summer at Abbotsfield . |
| 4 | Someone must have seen the boy that night . |
| 5 | It happened at the time of the National Junior Championships in Nottingham and we had n't seen the television that morning . |
| 6 | I think there 's been a lot , a lot of publicity for childline , now , but you are n't directly in , associated with childline Fjn Well , we 've had , no , we 've had to call ourselves children 's line because for er obvious reasons we ca n't call ourselves childline , but it is the same type of thing , er run in a similar way , not exactly the same of course er partly because we have n't got the money that childline er attracts . |
| 7 | If he had been a better negotiator , he would have closed the sale that day . |
| 8 | He complained that he had not played the role that way , and that it had been tampered with in the editing for the sake of box office . |
| 9 | And as he had n't at first referred to the wedding-dress , last night or until they 'd reached the spinney that morning , so he did n't refer now to the fantasies of Timothy Gedge that were turning out not to be fantasies at all . |
| 10 | Many people in the black community , people that I had thought of as friends , said to me that I should not have worn the flag that night . |
| 11 | He had rigged the form that way . |
| 12 | The availability of calculating machines , and now micro-computers , must have affected the way that maths is taught , and also possibly the skills that are needed to become a good mathematician . |
| 13 | It was funny he should have remembered the row that week-end , when Patricia had left him in the cinema , and the per … pervert had touched his leg , because that was when all this had really started . |
| 14 | On one of these days Nigel commented that he had observed that grandma had accompanied the family that week , so he was n't surprised . |
| 15 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 16 | As she listened to Amsterdam she became more sure by the minute that Timothy was n't quite the same as he 'd been when he had left the house that morning . |
| 17 | He had taken the van that morning from the gravelled patch outside his Station in the left wing of the Pitti Palace and driven across the city to the Appeal Court in Via Cavour . |
| 18 | But all , when we are lost the danger that smugness of not realizing we 're lost , we 're alright ! |
| 19 | That purpose is achieved the instant that property passes to the buyer . |