Example sentences of "that [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stunned by a Thameside painting by Whistler , it was only later that Strayhorn discovered it was actually a view of Battersea Bridge that he 'd admired ! |
| 2 | The thought of all that money calmed them down , and they subsided . |
| 3 | I did n't buy that jumper did I , Mikila , cos it 's not very |
| 4 | That bit made me think even then . |
| 5 | Although he could not read or write , Burke learnt fast , but it was not until he was 18 , nearly 19 , that Parrish gave him his first fight . |
| 6 | That upbringing served him well for Robert Redford 's Thirties drama The River Runs Through It , adapted from a novel by Norman MacLean about family conflict and fly fishing . |
| 7 | The experience in Gentle Jack and the speech that caused all the problems in that play stood him in good stead . |
| 8 | ‘ Are yer sure it 's what that geezer said it was ? ’ |
| 9 | I do n't frighten easy , but that geezer frightened me . |
| 10 | That 's all that Christian offered me when I went up there to lay out that poor young wife of his . |
| 11 | The basis of the control was that the courts have held that , when Parliament gives a public body statutory authority to act , it can be implied that Parliament intended it to act in a particular way ; in good faith , in a reasonable manner , in accordance with the requirements of natural justice . |
| 12 | If we ask where that power comes from , the answer is broadly that Parliament claimed it and the courts recognised it . |
| 13 | That bike took me all over the place . |
| 14 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 15 | Delahunty 's reports from the burning stand that afternoon won him worldwide acclaim and a number of top international radio and journalistic awards . |
| 16 | That mum said she cu definitely cut it off . |
| 17 | But Rosemarie felt so strongly that mum suggested she write to director Steven Spielberg … and to her surprise she received a reply from his scientific adviser Don Lessem in Massachusetts . |
| 18 | Of Burke 's politics Johnson believed , as he did of any political opponent , that honesty deserted him when embroiled politically , only to return when engaged conversationally or intellectually . |
| 19 | He was a good footballer , who would have made the top in that field had he so wished . |
| 20 | He was running short of petrol and that route offered him the chance to capture replenishments along the way . |
| 21 | That coincidence pleased him . |
| 22 | Here , some teachers found themselves , often for the first time in their careers , with the opportunity to engage in depth with a small number of individuals , yet were not always able fully to exploit the possibilities because sustained questioning and discussion at that level required them to have a clear framework of the kinds of question they wished to promote and a grasp of the ways a sequence of such questions related to the wider map of the curriculum area in which a particular learning task was located . |
| 23 | that experience changed him in every way . |
| 24 | The use of enamel , the brilliant understanding of colour , yes , that piece reminded him of Giuliano , though-the design was more subtle , less heavy . |
| 25 | We 'd been drifting apart until then , and that talk brought us right back together . |
| 26 | The facelessness of that figure worried him deeply . |
| 27 | I think that erm the actual position er assured was that industry gave us a quotation in erm April nineteen ninety two which actually was somewhat higher than we 'd anticipated , but I 'm not sure that industry reyu viewed it as an increase because it was probably the first time they had formally quoted a price . |
| 28 | But his experiences of street life in Hackney and his boxing ventures in Bethnal Green taught him that blackness presented him with a unique set of problems . |
| 29 | That episode made me quickly learn how to repair a puncture and from that time on I always carried a repair outfit . |
| 30 | I think the shock of that recognition drove me a little crazy myself . |