Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drama starts with a brief discussion of how people might live without modern technology , and ( using the model of the pictures they have seen ) , they build themselves a fortified encampment — a wonderful image this , with chairs organised into a large circle and then laid down so that the legs all face out . |
| 2 | Indeed , Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 is a clear decision to the contrary since it laid down unequivocally that an act may be an appropriation notwithstanding that it is done with the consent of the owner . |
| 3 | ‘ I certainly sha n't speak to her until she starts replying to my letters , ’ said Lord Grubb , cued in so that it was possible to say it at last . |
| 4 | He sent for a pallium for the new archbishop , Eanbald ( 1 ) , in 780 or 781 ( ASC D , s.a. 780 ) and in 786 received the papal legate , George , bishop of Ostia , who had come to York to inquire into the state of the Northumbrian Church , at a council attended by all the chief men , ecclesiastical and lay , in the kingdom , when the legate pronounced on much that displeased him . |
| 5 | The female , Vicky , came to me and bent down so that I could look again into her grey eyes . |
| 6 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 7 | But not out yet , his savaged leg : and he had to turn — the door opened in on him — and Anton , sprung as a cat ; this opening , what he had sought , again flung himself at the foreman , who , caught by surprise , new horror , staggered back so that both of them , locked as one , a horrific beast , fell out against the far wall , the urinal , where : so long ago , as aeons past , Parker had first made his move . |
| 8 | Phat looked inquiringly towards his master , wondering if the procedures should be halted , but the Corsican waved him on , gesturing peremptorily for the crowd to he moved back so that the new recruits could see what was happening . |
| 9 | Charles moved back so that the porter could put down a tray with tea things on it . |
| 10 | ‘ I myself was much too young to question it at the time , but I found out later that there was a good deal of mystery surrounding his death . ’ |
| 11 | I only found out later that the back doors had puffed closed over the neck of an old lady who was trying to get on and her head , with a black hat with waxed fruit on it , was inside the bus , and the rest of her , carrying two full shopping bags was outside , running sideways . |
| 12 | ‘ No , I found out later that he was busy taking the cup of claret to my husband 's chamber . ’ |
| 13 | We found out later that we each had an identical one from Marks and Sparks . |
| 14 | One man who booked a Rolls Royce and two Mercedes with the company last July said : ‘ We booked it and paid a £120 deposit and then found out later that things were not right . |
| 15 | He does not wish to be named but said : ‘ We booked it and paid a £120 deposit and then found out later that things were not right . |
| 16 | Ah now you think about it , I mean there was this question in our maths test and I was chatting to him in the dinner queue about it and I was going yeah it was this and he goes oh you 're probably right and he was agreeing with me and I found out later that I was wrong but he still agreed with me . |
| 17 | I found out afterwards that the man was Mr. Mould , known as Tammy , who with his two spinster sisters ran ‘ Moulds Dining Rooms ’ in Winchester Street . |
| 18 | He looked after Lucy during the day while I was at work , but I found out afterwards that he used to leave her a lot with my friends upstairs . |
| 19 | Even that surprised me until I found out afterwards that George had known about it all along ; I suppose they did n't want to risk him bringing it up first . |
| 20 | I only found out yesterday that there was some sort of operation . |
| 21 | anyhow , but I found out now that they 're on prescription so , he said this morning you can have some more tablet , no I said I can get them off the old quack |
| 22 | She tried to slip free , but he moved round so that he could see her face more clearly . |
| 23 | Of fascination to some , most would prefer to have it taken away or at least effectively cordoned off so that its presence could largely be ignored . |
| 24 | One night the Mersey tunnel was closed to all traffic , approach roads sealed off so that the long column of Fulmars and Hurricanes could be towed to Gladstone Dock where ‘ Furious ’ was berthed . |
| 25 | Now you could have two buses doing that and forming fifteen minute service because one bus went out in thirty minutes another one fifteen minutes behind it , that came back so that the first bus was able to do the third one . |
| 26 | Intelligence reports available at the time spelt out clearly that one of the Iraqi directors of the firm was involved in Saddam 's race for the bomb . |
| 27 | He said it abruptly , his body twisted round so that he could look back at the hotel . |
| 28 | Alternatively , he or she may suggest that the inspection chamber is left in operation , fitted with an airtight cover bolted or screwed down so that it can be removed if necessary . |
| 29 | His eyes turned up so that only the whites were left and he made an ugly sound deep in his throat , then he went forward , full-face on to the ground . |
| 30 | G. wants the embankment dug up so that the pipe can be examined . |