Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] that [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was in Colchester Park that I had my first lesson in conservation in microcosm , if you like . |
| 2 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 3 | To quote the memoirs : ‘ … on Sunday the 4th August 1793 , after having finished the morning duty he always performed in person , of visiting , prescribing for , and superintending the dressing of the wounds of the horses in the infirmary , he sat down to continue his treatise on the outward conformation of the horse , a work he intended for publication : in a short time he informed Mrs. Vial that he felt himself extremely ill complaining of cold to a degree of shivering , attended with a violent headach [ sic ] , and great thirst . |
| 4 | He thought he recognised in Creed qualities that he had himself : the ability to wait and to charge the act of waiting with the current of anticipation , to check and double-check , so that when the waiting was over everything would go like clockwork . |
| 5 | It had been a marvellous wedding party and it was followed by a wedding night that she knew she would never forget . |
| 6 | She stalked out of the factory , intending to walk through the grounds to cool off , and it was n't until she was passing the administration block that she realised it was raining . |
| 7 | In the present case the deceased indicated in clear terms to Mr. Morgan and Miss Calagarri that he regarded his name , written by him as part of the phrase ‘ My Will by Percy Winterbone , ’ as being his signature . |
| 8 | Not by the slightest word or look did she betray to Miss Miggs that she knew she could n't read . |
| 9 | For there was absolutely no need at all for him to walk so close to where she was walking or to bump into her and so catch her off balance — the end result being that he had his arms around her , as if to save her , before she could stop him . |
| 10 | TWO ponies became so amorous in their horse box that they sent it plunging off a road and down a bank near Islip , Oxon , yesterday . |
| 11 | It was on an aid pitch that he took his only fall , ripping two pegs before the last aid point held him . |
| 12 | so mind the wee er nerve pills that you gave me mamma . |
| 13 | Later the same day , a London correspondent could write to William Stonor that he had nothing new to report . |
| 14 | Later the same day , a London correspondent could write to William Stonor that he had nothing new to report . |
| 15 | so if you wanted to go see if you change William 's thing to the colour I want and if they had , he said he thought the shirt that the guy got with it matched it better than the smaller check , so do you wan na give him that check shirt that I bought him ? |
| 16 | It was so obviously a panic reaction that it fooled nobody . |
| 17 | It 's called the Tripyer Shield and it 's a local amateur thing Eccles and District and to win it it 's like winning the F A Cup and this G M B team that we started we lost about three or four matches and we started losing the players , so when you do n't lock the doors and you 'd end up with about seven players and you 'd think is it worth bothering ? |
| 18 | No , she went on a Commonwealth tour , but it was in South Africa that she had her new success , and she stayed on there . |
| 19 | And after no matter what contortions , it was upon Northam Station that she found herself , and with a ticket for Paris in her purse . |
| 20 | It was about a fortnight after I arrived in Punta Arenas that he showed me his journal and I was able to take a translation of those entries . |
| 21 | He mentioned to Sergeant Pope that he knew who was responsible for the murder of Oliver . |
| 22 | Belgacom , the Belgian state phone company , is terrified that the government , which is in such a panic to cut its budget deficit as required by the terms of the Maastricht Treaty that it tendered its resignation to the king , who declined it , will rush to raise cash by privatising the phones : ‘ It is only when the company 's reorganisation and internal restructuring is complete that a new change to its statutes could be undertaken , ’ the board said , warning ‘ It takes time to transform an administration into an efficient and dynamic company . ’ |
| 23 | You had told Dr Fenemore that you thought your parents still lived here . |
| 24 | ‘ We wanted to make the Cabaret Voltaire a focal point of the ‘ newest art ’ , although we did not neglect , from time to time , to tell the fat and utterly uncomprehending Zurich philistines that we regarded them as pigs and the German Kaiser as the initiator of the war … |
| 25 | Benjamin Britten , a composer , was so moved with Owen 's war poetry that he created his ‘ War Requiem ’ based on his poems . |
| 26 | Milton ward Tories were so impressed by his la-de-da-accent and gold-plated walking stick that they made him social secretary . |
| 27 | But it was in the opera house not the organ loft that he found his true métier . |
| 28 | It was precisely because the measures in the social chapter would have damaged first employment prospects and secondly our competitiveness against Japan and the United States that I found them unacceptable . |
| 29 | Resenting my making decisions that she felt she ought to make . |
| 30 | The coterie verse that she wrote there survives , and one manuscript copy of it is dedicated to James Stuart , then twelve years old . |