Example sentences of "that they [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , they simply put together a series of guidelines , concerned with scale , height and the street network between the buildings , which amounted to two sheets of paper that they sent to the developer . |
| 2 | Flexing his fingers so that they popped with the cold , he looked around tensely . |
| 3 | These trends were supposed to be so powerful that many groups were driven to extinction as once-useful organs became overdeveloped to the extent that they interfered with the animals ' ability to cope with the environment . |
| 4 | But but prior to doing that they met with the branch that had put the resolution in . |
| 5 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 6 | But does n't every band from that area maintain that they met in the Hacienda ? |
| 7 | It was only when Dexter parked the car back at the Yard that they noticed in the paintwork of the boot two long , deep scratches . |
| 8 | She says that they banged on the doors , and got them out . |
| 9 | Under such circumstances characteristics of adult language input would be reflected in differential rates of progress only to the extent that they coincided with the child 's existing ‘ style ’ of learning language ( Gleitman et al . |
| 10 | ‘ Well over one third of those questioned in our survey said that they waited for the sales to make major purchases . |
| 11 | ‘ Tell them that they waited in the dark for us ? ’ |
| 12 | Like Cobbett , many suffragettes would have said that it was not so much the vote for its own sake that they sought as the improvements in the status and conditions of women which they believe would be achieved as the result of women 's enfranchisement . |
| 13 | Ursula Block reports that they melted on the way . |
| 14 | My parents once told me that they lived on the Canary Islands for a little while but I do n't think I was born just yet . |
| 15 | One idea was that they roll downslope from the submarine volcanic vent like plastic bags full of water , before piling up on top of one another ; another was that they whizzed along the sea bed , supported by a cushion of collapsing steam bubbles ; while a third suggested that ‘ pillows ’ are n't separate entities at all , but long , worm-like tubes whose thickness varies along their length . |
| 16 | The proposition that they sprinted up the hill is not equivalent to the proposition that they ran up the hill , but it is an interpretation of it in the sense that it shares certain contextual implications . |
| 17 | This analysis raises the same question addressed in the previous section : if the speaker wanted the hearer to recover these effects , why did n't he or she simply say that they sprinted up the hill ? |
| 18 | But surely , a speaker could have conveyed an impression of athleticism simply by saying that they sprinted up the hill . |
| 19 | As a result , the fact that they sprinted up the hill receives an emphasis which is not part of the interpretation of [ 31 ] , but is more like the one conveyed by [ 32 ] . |
| 20 | Footprints , found in soft mud under the scaffolding , had been photographed and casts made though there was little doubt that they belonged to the victim , not the killer . |
| 21 | Indeed , the Teds had appeared on the streets before postwar meat-rationing had been abandoned in Britain — which might suggest that they belonged to the world of postwar austerity , rather than ‘ affluence ’ . |
| 22 | Byrne says that they added to the confusion by jumping up and down and shouting with glee . |
| 23 | She stood shaking , setting the flaming tresses about her quivering so that they rippled in the shafts of light broken by the barrier of trees . |
| 24 | He was a realpolitiker , believing nation-states were the prime actors in world affairs and that they operated by the logic of the balance of power . |
| 25 | One of them made crochet toilet-seat covers that they sold at the shop . |
| 26 | Hostel staff , poorly paid and untrained , were under pressure from the subcommittee , the school and the local community , so that they erred on the side of caution in everything , thus frustrating the pupils . |
| 27 | He says that they went into the deal with their eyes open , there is no way the council treated them unfairly . |
| 28 | In that same year Welford Beaton argued that it was people like clerks who made up the bulk of the great movie audience and that they went to the cinema for inspiration . |
| 29 | Although the Chinese transformed rhinoceros horn into forms of customary refinement , it seems unlikely that they went to the trouble of removing agglutinated masses of hair from rhinoceros snouts and lavishing such skill on them for purely aesthetic reasons . |
| 30 | Fewer of those mergers , designed to build diversified conglomerates , were ‘ hostile ’ in the sense that they went over the heads of incumbent managers . |