Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [pron] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the things we said the worst training session can be is going over stuff that I already have done , already known , what training have I received that they received in the past ? |
| 2 | To Victorian eyes , any interior from that earlier period might have seemed underfurnished ; but the construction that George Eliot puts on the dominance of walls and ceiling is decisively Victorian in its moral emphasis : ‘ in walking through these rooms with their splendid ceilings and their meagre furniture , which tell how all the spare money had been absorbed before personal comfort was thought of , I have felt that there dwelt in this old English baronet some of that sublime spirit which distinguishes art from luxury , and worships beauty apart from self-indulgence ’ . |
| 3 | Police had earlier revealed that he died in similar circumstances to Mr Walker . |
| 4 | But now his ex-girlfriend Denice Lewis has revealed that he believes in pyramid power . |
| 5 | Moreover I do not think that it can be said that they succeed in righting the imbalance in the symbolism of Christianity . |
| 6 | Two or three hours on the journey , but on , having said that you got in time for the train fare , the and the |
| 7 | As Burton loved to live in opposition — it made him feel most alive and it could be argued that he lived in serious opposition to his own body for long stretches of his life — it is interesting to speculate whether the homosexual network gave yet another spin to his heterosexuality . |
| 8 | Variations obviously occur from village to village and from area to area , so that no claim is made that what follows in this chapter applies to each and every village in England . |
| 9 | It is thought that they developed in the oceans , possibly as a result of chance combinations of atoms into large structures , called macromolecules , which were capable of assembling other atoms in the ocean into similar structures . |
| 10 | The date of its founder , Zarathustra ( Zoroaster is the Greek form of his name ) , is uncertain but it is thought that he flourished in the first half of the sixth century BC . |
| 11 | This is a life so transformed that it stands in utter contrast to the life which comes naturally to us as human beings . |
| 12 | At Bilen I had often asked what happened to the Awash , curious to find out why this large river never reached the sea , and I had been told that it ended in a great lake at the foot of a mighty mountain called Goumarri in Aussa , where apparently there were many lakes , great forests and some cultivation . |
| 13 | The court was told that she dabbled in black magic and tried summoning messages from the spirit world by using a ouija board . |
| 14 | As a French observer at the end of her reign pointed out , ‘ it was solely by suffering her power to be abused that she succeeded in preserving it ’ . |
| 15 | I used to take them home on quite a number of occasions if I 'd known that they lived in the immediate vicinity . |
| 16 | A gentleman in Birmingham would like to make contact with an ex-member of the R A F who he served with , his name is Dennis , and it was known that he lived in West Bridgeford Nottingham . |
| 17 | There was n't a wide enough field of vision to make much out , beyond the slime-laden walls of the pit , but , just for an instant , the Doctor could have sworn that something moved in the reflexive way of an uncomfortable sleeper . |
| 18 | It is clear that Wagner became genuinely fond of Nietzsche , but for all the young professor 's admiration of him as a person , Wagner — it is a notorious fact — was a supremely egocentric man ; it is easily inferred that he glimpsed in Nietzsche a means of gaining respectability in hitherto hostile academic circles , and that it was this glimpse , as much as anything , that encouraged his fond feelings to grow . |
| 19 | Yeah , but that 's all she thought , she , she still did n't realise that after Gavin had gone that I got in me car , come home and seen you , did n't she know ? |
| 20 | Whether the life sentence is regarded as a sufficient denunciation in society depends on the public 's perception of what life imprisonment means : if it is widely believed that it results in an average of nine years ' imprisonment , the effect will be somewhat blunted . |
| 21 | The question was so silkily inserted that she drew in a breath . |
| 22 | Once , Professor Ward had publicly admitted that he believed in the uniqueness of Jesus . |
| 23 | He was always careful to have no vestige of drug cargoes on board when entering port and openly admitted that he dealt in drugs , always doing business in the safety of international waters . |
| 24 | However , Brenda 's turn is so constructed that it starts in London English with a statement about what happened , and switches to Creole at " cause " ( which could be London English or Creole ) — precisely the point where she begins her explanation of why she acted in this way . |
| 25 | Your own son needs to be encouraged to behave in a mature way , while your stepson has to be reassured that he belongs in the new family . |
| 26 | I was n't too sure what ‘ officiants ’ were in this context but have since realized that they perform in place of ministers of religion in humanist funerals . |
| 27 | I have already mentioned that I worked in Derbyshire . |
| 28 | Anyway , ’ he concluded morosely , ‘ it was established that he arrived in Kinghorn at the expected time . ’ |
| 29 | for a whole , W , to exist it is not normally enough merely that its parts exist , rather it is required that they exist in a certain arrangement , in a certain set of relations to each other . |
| 30 | Traditional psychology from Freud onwards has held that what happens in the earliest years of childhood can affect our later perceptions of ourselves . |