Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing that I later ate in a restaurant was as good as our dinner , the finale being a ‘ tender coconut ’ pudding , a dish I had never eaten anywhere in the tropics . |
| 2 | There were plenty of filing cabinets , with half-full bottles , and an empty water cooler that I evidently kept as an excuse to have a tower of paper cups . |
| 3 | Naturally he was very happy when I was able to tell him that I recently came across a couple of cases of them we did n't know we had . |
| 4 | I usually do n't mention the fact that I once trained as a social worker . |
| 5 | When I first thought of that I suddenly got in an absolute panic — nothing to do with Darwin , but , you know never mind — and I thought what about those erm , preying mantises and things , which who have adopted their front legs for sort of seizing prey like that they 've even got four legs to walk on — what do the poor things do ? |
| 6 | What the evidence does show is that he was genuinely fond of his new wife and that she probably died of a heart attack . |
| 7 | The idea of the lofty Naylor Massingham sitting impatiently outside her apartment block for an hour was one which Leith found quite pleasing — so much so that she almost broke into a smile . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ said Henrietta , smiling meaninglessly , confirming Liz 's view that she never listened to a word that Liz said to her . |
| 9 | That we just connected on a kind of mental plane . |
| 10 | Four hours a day in a blazing saddle can leave its mark , but my bottom was fine , the terrain being so rough that we never broke into a trot , let alone a gallop . |
| 11 | The big Gloucester builder was so badly battered in the World Cup campaign that he had to take six months off work — and he and self-employed forward Paul Rendall lost so much money that they successfully appealed for a hardship payment . |
| 12 | In fact , the evidence suggests that at the time of the great debates over defence and the Middle East in 1946 Britain had a realistic view of Soviet intentions in this area — that they fundamentally consisted in a determination to secure access to oil concessions in northern Iran . |
| 13 | He noticed that they continually moved in a zigzag fashion . |
| 14 | Moreover , the industry is beginning to lose the industrial image that it once had of a strike-torn and unreliable supplier . |
| 15 | Through the first course , clear soup so strong that it almost jellied in an empty soup plate , he talked to Aunt Tossie while she supped up her soup delightedly and gave him gardening secrets for his mother . |
| 16 | The court ruled that there was sufficient evidence for a sixth charge , of complicity in the execution of seven Jewish hostages in 1944 , but that this was not a crime against humanity since it was not part of a " methodical extermination plan " , and that it therefore fell under a 20-year statute of limitations for the prosecution of " ordinary " war crimes . |
| 17 | Relics have been housed in the neighbouring priory ruins , including a huge stone chest decorated in high relief with scenes from the biblical tale of David and known as St Andrew 's Sarcophagus , although there is no reason to suppose that it ever served as a coffin . |
| 18 | We may suppose that it originally stood in a niche . |
| 19 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 20 | If Cnut was primarily responsible for the expulsion it would show that he sometimes dealt in a fairly high-handed manner with ecclesiastics who incurred his displeasure . |
| 21 | I noticed that he never put on an air of diffidence when , as here , his own work was being cited . |
| 22 | These may show that he occasionally worked as a wall-painter , or at least supplied designs for wall-paintings . |