Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Influential in child psychiatry for over thirty years , Kahn moved into that field from the excellent springboard of general practice . |
| 2 | In all these ways the place was perfectly suited to what Ramsey needed at that moment . |
| 3 | I wonder what Eric Clapton thought of that part of Nirvana 's performance ? |
| 4 | But eight years before Roberts sat on that hilltop above the city , there were only 24,000 Jews living in Palestine . |
| 5 | British companies had to build their lines between revolutions and had to be prepared to accept the damage to bridges , track , and stations caused by civil war and insurgency , but the opportunities presented in the wheat-growing and stock-rearing of Argentina , the coffee , rubber , and minerals of Brazil , the gold , silver , copper , nitrates , and sheep-farming of Chile , the cattle of Uruguay , and the sugar , coffee , cocoa , tobacco , cotton , and cattle of Venezuela seemed at that time limitless . |
| 6 | My first thought was that had Richard Hannay materialised at that moment , I would have issued him with a help form . |
| 7 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 8 | With the re-establishment of stable kingship in Kent and among the West Saxons under Wihtred and Ine respectively and the confinement of Mercian power , a period of relatively peaceful consolidation followed which lasted for a quarter of a century during which time kings in southern England embarked on that redefinition of their realms which is embodied in the extant laws of Wihtred and Ine . |
| 9 | Certainly what Devon Loch heard at that moment was not a noise which he had heard before , and it was some noise — a raucous surge of patriotic fervour as the Royal horse galloped to certain victory in front of his owner the Queen Mother and her daughters Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret , a rapturous climax befitting what was about to be one of the greatest moments of racing history . |
| 10 | Ah , it 's a thing Jake had from that woman he married , she says — like she did n't care for it . |
| 11 | Ruth wondered at that frown but not for long . |
| 12 | Marcus turned at that moment and saw her . |
| 13 | Blankly Tod turned to that chest of his . |
| 14 | Thus what I called Crime and Punishment 's apocalyptic naturalism is its most vital link with The Possessed ; I mean , when Dostoevsky read about that gang murder in the Moscow Record his mind 's eye was caught not by a bizarre and therefore very newsworthy incident but by the seed of a foul commonplace : the seed in eternity , in the deepest realism , though also in the mere mundane future , for Dostoevsky did imagine a time when only the most spectacular acts of terrorism would get headline treatment . |
| 15 | Morris returned from that trip fired with a new enthusiasm for captaincy . |
| 16 | Duncan decided at that moment that if things got really bad he would blitz the Russian with some of the Skoda and Lada jokes that were popular in the West . |
| 17 | What Tolkien took from that passage ( and others ) was , in short , the ideas that elves were like angels ; that they had however been involved in a ‘ Fall ’ ; that their fate at Doomsday is not clear ( for men ‘ shall join in the Second Music of the Ainur ’ , elves perhaps not , S , p. 42 ) , that they are associated with the Earthly Paradise , and can not die till the end of the world . |
| 18 | Burun thought about that possibility , then stood in his stirrups . |
| 19 | The United Kingdom referred in that connection to article 5(1) of the Geneva Convention on the High Seas 1958 ( United Nations Treaty Series 450 , No. 6465 ) ( Cmnd. 1929 ) which reads : |
| 20 | So Jesus concentrated on that part which needed filling out if faith was to have a chance of being itself . |
| 21 | The entrance foyer was packed when Georg sidled in that evening , hoping that no-one would see him and recognize him . |
| 22 | Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem , the royal city of David , because Joseph belonged to that family . |
| 23 | ‘ If Daniel knocked on that door now , dying with the cold , I 'd not so much as cross the room . ’ |
| 24 | Without being told , Sam knew at that moment that Clare would leave him . |
| 25 | And it was just as well that she did so because Harry appeared at that moment , to lead her out for sherry and soda . |
| 26 | What would happen if he took the glass from her hand and kissed her parted lips Harry glimpsed in that instant , prefigured in the alluring darkness of her dress , darker , it seemed , than even the deepest of the shadows around them . |
| 27 | Ipswich won on that day in 1938 and deserved their victory yesterday . |
| 28 | When he got a passport of his own , if they still had the sort Jarvis had by that time , he was going to write ‘ lion tattoo on back ’ under ‘ distinguishing marks ’ . |
| 29 | Skinner continued in that appointment at Munsterlager and Catterick , before returning for a third tour in Northern Ireland , during which he was again mentioned in despatches . |
| 30 | I had to come to grips with how my understanding of the sovereignty of God applied in that situation . |