Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came to a familiar boulder ; it had fallen where the river met the hollow that over the years had become the pond . |
| 2 | He removed them when he first came since they would not shut because , as old Mr Abbott the gardener explained , ‘ not once but twice Mr Betjeman reversed out of the garage without opening the doors , and when charged with stupidity , made the excuse that on both occasions he was wearing a sou'wester . ’ |
| 3 | In Twelve Tasks for Social Democrats , issued on the day of its launch in 1981 , the Social Democratic Party made the point that in order " to secure Britain s livelihood in the nineties we need a consistent economic strategy in the eighties , one that is not disrupted every few years by a political upheaval " and by " pointless conflict , the dogma , the violent lurches of policy and class antagonisms that the two old parties have fostered " . |
| 4 | In G. v. Chief Constable for Stroud the Divisional Court made the point that in deciding whether or not the constable 's decision was a reasonable one , full allowance must be made for the circumstances in which the police find themselves in emergencies . |
| 5 | I was busy cooking , blissing out on the aroma of cod in a yoghurt and fresh coriander sauce , and was n't really listening , but through the vapours there penetrated the fact that in Derbyshire they were queuing up recently to do a route on Raven Tor which is ‘ easy 8a , ’ in order to get into a book which David Jones has assembled on climbers — particularly those who can climb 8a . |
| 6 | His later fame as a painter produced the legend that at heart Pollock was a cowboy . |
| 7 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
| 8 | Coffin asked , and got the answer that of course he would , especially to a woman . |
| 9 | In many ways , these additional protocols reinforced the impression that for France the EDC was designed as a guarantee for itself against possible German aggression as much as it was to be an anti-Soviet organisation . |
| 10 | When he published Parachute Padre , Fraser McLuskey mentioned the fact that to that day no trace had been found of the missing plane . |
| 11 | Mr Nathan lamented the fact that for 40 years Israel had been saying it had no one to talk to and now that the other side was prepared to talk , Israel refused . |
| 12 | Fru Møller , loyal to her country in general and her corner of it particularly , assured the newcomer that in living memory it had hardly ever done so . |
| 13 | The Armstrongs were a lawless lot , paying little more allegiance to Scotland than they did to England , for they straddled the borderline ; so they were not to be trusted , but Johnstone and Jardine assured the Regent that on this occasion they would not cause trouble , for although they would care nothing about Balliol one way or the other , they hated Dacre , who as English Middle March Warden had recently hanged some of their people . |
| 14 | Heim again presented her view that the accused was faking , and added the comment that from her observations of his behaviour in the witness box he seemed to be of average intelligence . |
| 15 | ( 3 ) The Act of 1976 expressly recognised the possibility that under the pre-existing law ‘ a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ’ see section 4(5) . |
| 16 | The prosecution told the jury that on the day of Mr Johnston 's death , he and his fiancee , Miss Gillyanne Aglin-Jarrett , were celebrating their engagement . |
| 17 | Dr Odling-Smee told the jury that in 1983 he read about his father 's role in the repatriation of the Cossacks in Mr Nikolai Tolstoy 's book Victims of Yalta . |
| 18 | John Campbell of Mamore , however , had one powerful weapon at his disposal to reinforce his will , for he told the commissioners that for the future ‘ none but sure friends should be nominate[d] ’ commissioners of supply , ‘ and that all others should be razed out ’ . |
| 19 | I see now how wrong I was , and yet when I told the king that without resorting to such action I would still be in the granite quarries and so unable to do his bidding , he understood and forgave me . |
| 20 | Mortimer then told the assembly that at some earlier date the magnates had agreed that Edward should be deposed . |
| 21 | Mr Prescott told the court that on the fateful evening Boxing Day last year he had been in the pub with Mr Maltby and another friend . |
| 22 | A detective told the court that after caution the pair replied : ‘ Nothing to say to the charge . ’ |
| 23 | Later James McInally , a forensic scientist with Lothian and Borders police , told the court that after tests on the accused 's clothing and in the burned house , they had concluded that Sutherland had been involved in splashing petrol in the house . |
| 24 | Head teacher of Bentley School , Philip Callaway , told the Herald that during the week , the children 's topic work would also be looking at changes in everyday life over the 150 years . |
| 25 | Slovenia 's President Milan Kucan told the meeting that in accordance with the results of that referendum Slovenia was already committed to becoming an independent state , a proclamation to that effect being scheduled for June 26 . |
| 26 | But a solicitor for Ayrshire and Arran Health Board told the inquiry that in the balance of probabilities it would have been too late . |
| 27 | King 's Road 's Mary Quant told the conference that with the advent of the miniskirt in the sixties the crotch had been redefined as the new erogenous zone . |
| 28 | Shortly before yesterday 's debate on the economy you told the House that in your opinion the general election campaign started when we came back from the Christmas recess . |
| 29 | Chris Allen , of the Forum Housing Association , told the BCC that for the size of the local authority area , Wirral had a major problem of homelessness . |
| 30 | It noted the possibility that in theory the interests of the partners might be so separated that a blanket restriction on competition would be unreasonable but rejected the contention that the mere fact of administrative departmentalisation could lead to that result . |