Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The breed was initially dual-purpose , whatever its colour , but for the most part ceded its milking role to the neighbouring Ayrshire ; it has continued as a beef breed but has never been intensively developed for that role .
2 I was badly shaken by that pact .
3 Besides , the biggest disincentive to spend is fear of the dole , and Mr Lamont raised little cheer in that regard .
4 Will you be all right driving after that wine ? ’
5 Even the Liberal party has eventually come to that conclusion — even the Albanian Government have come to that conclusion .
6 I wish him luck in the negotiations that he will vigorously pursue towards that end .
7 The defendants sought to argue that the plaintiff was prevented from claiming breach of warranty since the material fact constituting the breach had been disclosed to the plaintiff at a meeting prior to signing the disclosure letter but had not been eventually contained in that letter .
8 It is a two-storey mill ( now open to the public ) which he built in 1752 , though it has been much altered since that time .
9 Any analytic approach in linguistics which involves contextual considerations , necessarily belongs to that area of language study called pragmatics .
10 The church was not much developed after that date , but its origins lie not only within an earlier area of settlement , but also in its position adjacent to a spring , one of the headwaters of the Duntis Bourne .
11 When the Davy Lamp is taken into air that contains more than 5 per cent of firedamp , or if the air passing the lamp is suddenly contaminated to that extent , the air inside the lamp explodes and puts out the light but the mesh prevents the explosion being transmitted to the air outside the lamp Thus although the miner is put in the dark he is alive to tell the tale .
12 No doubt some owners are lucky enough to fall into that category — but most of us have to scrimp and save to keep our horses happy .
13 Okay so got on that train , thinking it would go straight to Hertford and it did n't .
14 His first love was association football and he was highly regarded within that game both as a player and an administrator .
15 Jade is scarce because it can only crystallize in that form under geological conditions of heat and pressure which were confined to certain faults in the earth 's crust .
16 And the audience of a state radio station is not entirely limited to that state .
17 Nora was not nearly so impressed by that sort of thing as her cousin but she admitted to herself that it was unlikely a man from such a background would be deceiving Constance .
18 Look through the books and patterns you have , see what 's available at your local knitting centre , perhaps send for that book you never bought earlier and have a really fun time with the wealth of designs from Iris Bishop or Wendy Phillips or whoever you like best .
19 So you better count along that way for how many ?
20 I also met the Marquess of Hartington , who , since he took over as Senior Steward of the Jockey Club in July , has worked extremely hard and is already greatly respected in that role ; also Mr and Mrs Johnny Henderson who were shortly off after a business trip to Australia via Bangkok , and home via Dubai , where alas , they arrive after I will have left : Mr and Mrs Malcolm Kimmins , he was one of the stewards ; the Hon.
21 Their 7 foot 6 inches-wide body was the widest permitted at that time , and allowed two-by-two seating on upholstered seats in the saloon .
22 ‘ When the first bell went and I saw the way Lennox was going after him I told the guys watching with me that Ruddock had better watch for that left of Lewis 's or he 'd be counter-punched with the right and get himself knocked out — and that 's exactly what happened . ’
23 Well , I was already in and he came in and just erm I was here and he just suddenly came round that way and he sat down next to Louise and and he said how are you ?
24 He 's only looking at that bit .
25 After several public meetings to discuss plann-ing matters the bureaucracy were left confounded , much to the delight of the ratepayers who may have only attended for that reason !
26 The route was wet , holds had to be dug out and they thought it Severe — the same grade Hargreaves and MacPhee had given their ascent of Deer Bield Crack ( one of the Lakeland 's hardest climbs at that time ) the previous year .
27 However , I am bound to say that in my judgment Ex parte Handscomb was wrongly decided on that issue .
28 So you 'd only look in that projection what will happen , right .
29 Do you think that there 's any scope for perhaps going down that road in the future ?
30 It was an excitement that matched my own , for I had never sailed the South Seas and I had long dreamed of that scatter of tiny , magically named islands strewn across one third of a globe .
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