Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] that [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Nibs McGovern met that train every day with his trolley to pick up the papers and the Boland loaves that the shops got for special customers .
2 Mr Arafat hates that plan , because it did not offer an independent Palestine .
3 ‘ Do you remember , ’ a typical conversation might begin , ‘ that time back in December of '59 when Waimea was unrideable and Greg Noll caught that wave that must have been thirty-foot plus ? ’
4 Eddie Polland was the winner of the card and pencil contest with a four rounds total of 290 but a year later Barry Brennan bettered that score by nine shots .
5 Tilda loved that smell , and stretched her nostrils wide .
6 A Country Diary : EGGLESTON BURN , Teesdale : Small burns that feed the main rivers of the Pennine Dales create some of the wildest features of the landscape .
7 ( Ms Obholzer blocked that exit by telling him that domestic gas in Vienna was now non-lethal . )
8 Small wonder that display technology is generating such interest worldwide and why electronics companies do not want to be excluded from this technology .
9 The Lloyds won that encounter , though love deserted both partnerships in the end .
10 Mr Geddes said that counsel for Lothian and Tayside had advised that a referendum could be held within certain legal parameters .
11 Mrs McRobert said that Say continued to threaten to take his own life , blaming his wife 's decision to leave him for his predicament .
12 Vauban wanted that attack , ’ Benjamin muttered .
13 Roberts concluded that KMAG itself had operated successfully without internal disputes and that morale was good .
14 Chairman Sir John Hall made that pledge yesterday and the deal could be worth £1 million to Keegan .
15 Odd-Knut found that record harder to defend , and ultimately gave up trying .
16 ‘ Mercifully I do n't get to hear many of the other Stones and Beatles covers that have come around , but I suppose there is some validity to reworking songs .
17 Because Geordies say that do n't they ?
18 However , after Wakeham reported that support among backbenchers had collapsed during the day , perhaps by half , it was clear to those around Mrs Thatcher that , although she said she would sleep on it , she was virtually certain to resign .
19 DARWIN believed that elaborate ornamental traits expressed in both sexes might be favoured by mutual sexual selection driven by both female and male mate choice .
20 His solicitor , Mike Allan , told Sheriff Alexander Jessop that Say had been completely devastated when he arrived home to find a note from his wife , telling him their marriage was over .
21 Despite the Second Test trouncing by New Zealand , Murphy says Ireland needed that match , ‘ We 'd have come home with a very mistaken picture of our true form if we 'd left after the first international ’ .
22 Senior police officers and media professionals interviewed by Tumber felt that broadcast pictures of violence , looting and destruction in progress helped prevent the dissemination of dangerous or malicious rumour .
23 But a Harris poll conducted in February indicates that support for the arts is up significantly , now over 60% as opposed to 48% in 1974 .
24 Turkey 's primary interest is in gaining access to the European Community and Ankara believes that support for the West in the Gulf will hasten the day when Brussels will have to admit , albeit reluctantly , its first Muslim partner .
25 Carling strained a thigh muscle in Dunedin and Bayfield ended that match on a stretcher with a neck seizure .
26 Mr Chicken said that during interview Taylor claimed that mart officials had told him it would be all right to bring the pigs in .
27 Mr Chicken said that during interview Taylor claimed that mart officials had told him it would be all right to bring the pigs in .
28 A certificate from the Royal Hospital at Chelsea shows that Colour Sergeant Nicholl was placed on the list of Out-Pensioners on 23 June 1825 with a pension of 1s.10d. a day .
29 The second day Vincente announced that el thwing was wrong .
30 BMW acknowledged that work on its " E1 Concept Car " had been given added urgency by California 's restrictions on petrol-fuelled and pollution-emitting vehicles .
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