Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [that] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | On recovery , Mr Hayden described the stranger to the porter who agreed that it was the same figure he had seen . |
| 2 | This followed next , the debate opening on 14 November with a speech from Ottaviani , followed by a presentation of the text which suggested that it was a dogmatic decree concerned with the defence of Catholic doctrine : the existence of ‘ two sources ’ of revelation , Scripture and tradition . |
| 3 | Of course , old Meg is not to be relied upon at all , owing to her unfortunate fondness for the bottle , and when I heard that she was the source of the story I said that it could n't possibly be the case , that she did n't know what she had seen , as usual — ’ |
| 4 | When the angel came to the rock he saw that it was covered by a lovely green creeping plant . |
| 5 | Rather than looking at the proposal we decided that it was so that 's what we did really and that 's why , if you have a look down there right , so all we 're doing then we 're working through the resources and allocating them room numbers erm and then when that 's done so that 's what we did for each of the little rooms . |
| 6 | Mr Gordon Walker told The Bookseller he regretted that it had not proved possible to agree on a ‘ suitable continuing role for Felicity ’ . |
| 7 | Let us go back to the moment you found the body , the moment you realized that it was a body . |
| 8 | The Italian movement for democratic psychiatry proved so attractive and drew such European interest purely because in its attempts to place services fairly and squarely in the community it acknowledged that it was essential to involve not just health and social services , but also employment , leisure , housing , the trade union movement , and the whole panoply of services . |
| 9 | The authority had intended to publish a full summary of its findings but was prevented from doing so by the DPP who felt that it would prejudice the trials of the three officers . |
| 10 | And the gentleman who said that it 's quite easy but er they need to handled carefully , but you need to get the council in , who will charge for taking the nest away . |
| 11 | On the other he argued that it was " basically unhealthy " for the United States to continue to press the British to live beyond their means . |
| 12 | Now when I read about the island I discovered that it is volcanic and mountainous and is the last refuge of the Carib Indians , the descendants of proud cannibals who starved to death rather than accept the fate of slavery . |
| 13 | On the same day , however , Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Kato issued a carefully worded statement on behalf of the government which claimed that it was in " deep reflection for having caused unbearable agony and sorrow to the peoples in parts of Asia and the Pacific in fighting started with the attack on Pearl Harbour " . |
| 14 | When he came to the river he saw that it was much swollen . |
| 15 | Mr Trimble told the Speaker he appreciated that it was the normal practice not to have immediate statements on specific terrorist incidents ‘ because that amplifies the terror ’ . |
| 16 | And when we measured the activity of protein kinase C in the membrane we found that it too increased in activity in the left IMHV thirty minutes after training . |
| 17 | In the end they agreed that it was a fair way of sharing the inheritance , and so the legal steps were taken to transfer equal shares to all of us . |
| 18 | He generated a lot of enthusiasm and was supported each day by his colleagues from the company who agreed that it was great fun and a huge success . |
| 19 | There were only a few realists in the ILP who appreciated that it could not function independently of the Labour Party . |
| 20 | I was going by a brief statement made by the officer which indicated that it expired on the thirty first of March . |
| 21 | At the time we warned that it would not work . |
| 22 | Opening the cupboard he saw that it contained a collection of unmatched crockery and two folded clean tea towels , both dry , and on the bottom shelf an assortment of flower vases and a battered cane basket containing folded dusters , and tins of metal and furniture polish . |