Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is that where you heard the bad words you used just now ? ’ |
| 2 | It was through the need to obtain money for this that I took the part-time job with Mrs Morton and her husband , Weary Willy . |
| 3 | The girl was so frightened by this that she opened the door herself . |
| 4 | Later that year , when the giant 's favourite boar was killed by an arrow fired from an unknown bow , he was so enraged by this that he took the first-born of all his tenants and threatened to kill them unless the guilty one came forward or some other person informed on them . |
| 5 | After one such day , on the journey back , he and his brother Ifor ended up in a nasty fight with several English supporters and it was to this that he traced the beginning of his lifelong , terribly painful and ultimately crushing spinal problems . |
| 6 | D' ya remember going through this and what did the fella say on the phone , can you remember ? |
| 7 | St. Tue , whose hermit 's cell was nearby , heard of this and he attended the gathering to challenge Ulther , the leader of the giants , to a trial of strength . |
| 8 | Now that was er , it was er or they were oranges what had been cut in half and they had the centre taken out so it was just the orange peel and that was pressed into these barrels , filled with water and that was then brought up on to the quay , left on the quay and that used to go to . |
| 9 | I stood engrossed by this until I heard the rocking chair creak behind me , and at that I scampered up after them . |
| 10 | Starting at the Cow and Calf you climbed through a Khyber Pass of crags from one ling-and-bracken horizon to another until it seemed the sky could not be far off . |
| 11 | He followed her down one quiet suburban street after another till they approached the busy main road . |
| 12 | ‘ I had some before I left the hotel . |
| 13 | I congratulate the Clerks on having corrected this before I raised the matter . |
| 14 | There was an added pleasure to this as they used the cable that connected the spy camera on the wall , so , for a few hours at least , we had some privacy . |
| 15 | You mentioned erm tumours , in fact you get this as I said the same picture with , with X-rays as you get with magnetic resonance imaging , but what is different about tumours apparently is that the erm relaxation time with which the erm nuclei move erm varies erm according to whether a cell is , is cancerous or not . |
| 16 | The Wright bothers did this when they developed the first operational airplane . |
| 17 | There were two problems , the youngest children 's reading was n't good enough to manage the menu and most were too short to actually see over the tops of the containers on the heated cabinet to make their choice , because of this when they reached the counter they asked to have the same as the child in front making a nonsense of the notion of choice . |
| 18 | Later in the year , after the Murray Scrubs expedition , Gould was to find evidence to support this when he explored the Namoi River district in New South Wales . |
| 19 | Davis , himself , paved the way for this when he admitted the existence of arid and glacial cycles of erosion . |
| 20 | Iain MacPherson was spared this when he failed the common entrance examination for Merchant Taylors . |
| 21 | Former Social Security Secretary Patrick Jenkin alluded to this when he cut the benefit to which homeless men were entitled on the grounds that people would be aggrieved by these itinerants getting " more actual cash in hand by being homeless ( sometimes by choice ) than by contributing toward the cost of a household and accepting the attendant responsibilities . |
| 22 | The consequence of excommunication for Jacob was economic isolation : he was forced to give up his trade ( also shoemaking ) and was given redress for this when he petitioned the Long Parliament in 1640 . |
| 23 | ‘ It was like this when he won the Queen Elizabeth last year so I wo n't mind if it keeps pouring down for him or Lochsong , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Her eyes keep going like this when she heard the noise . |
| 25 | On the golf-course behind him a foursome of players shouted to one another as they approached the fourteenth green . |
| 26 | It was too late to go home after that so they stayed the night . |
| 27 | But that that we took the view that you know people were entitled to go to an H E institution , and and keep up to date with what was happening there every year . |
| 28 | ‘ But it was just after that that I discovered the bleeding , and I 've been … |
| 29 | It is not true that certain other events or conditions might have occurred such that we got the solar conditions but not last night . |
| 30 | The bulk of the drawing rules were such that you got the pin diameter plus you know , their size pads and all this and stuff . |