Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Training all technicians throughout the country was an onerous task , but Sandra Hannington , Caroline Mytton and Anthony Dracott ensured that everyone received personal tuition , and the day that the various branches ‘ went live ’ the skills were all put to use . |
| 2 | She knew nothing of the future other than that it was an inhospitable fog that no-one had any choice but to enter , but she was certain that there was a scene all laid-out and waiting for her where she brought in the name of the man — or woman — who 'd first talked to Chrissie and then run her down . |
| 3 | ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped . |
| 4 | Nibbles is an interesting one that I played one night and I was going cor ! |
| 5 | It was at Seto More 's house on Jervis Street that I experienced Chinese hospitality at first hand . |
| 6 | Before passing to it , I should say that I heard oral evidence from Mr. Mahmoud , called on behalf of C.T. , and from Mr. Joseph Kasner , the director of the landlord . |
| 7 | The last time that I heard that argument so brazenly presented was by Mr. Neville Chamberlain 's spokesman before the war . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a bit like the cry that I heard last night ! ’ she thought . |
| 9 | The document was in the name of Mustafa Ibn Assaad Shihada Zamzam , Mrs Zamzam 's husband , and when she saw that I recognised this type of British mandate deed Mrs Zamzam 's face lit up as if a great discovery had been made . |
| 10 | IT was in July that I announced Leeds-born superchef Marco-Pierre White was to marry his second wife , beautiful 19-year-old London model Lisa Butcher , after a whirlwind courtship . |
| 11 | The House will be aware that I announced last month the principles that I am minded to adopt next year in considering whether planned expenditure is excessive or has increased excessively . |
| 12 | The L N E R and L M S. And er I could see then that I knew that superintendent in the private days of the railways . |
| 13 | Oh I did n't notice that I saw that thing in the car but I did n't notice a bracket . |
| 14 | you know the big spread that I saw that time |
| 15 | Is the Minister aware that I returned this morning from a short visit to four countries in the middle east ? |
| 16 | Then that I got that book back when I became a full time official it was still in the still in the office . |
| 17 | Well mum , what it wants is that I got this tooth |
| 18 | ‘ It was when I was working on Wildlife Safari to Argentina , filming in a subtropical province in the north , that I got this lump on my back . |
| 19 | The reason that I chose this title is , firstly , we as a Society have to persevere to build our Society up and , secondly , we hope to make progress over the years . |
| 20 | that I thought this top would look nice to wear |
| 21 | Last month I went back over the past 40 years of owning knitting machines and described some of the ways that I made sufficient money for the machines to pay for themselves . |
| 22 | I mentioned the reduction in unemployment that has taken place in Holyhead , and , while the decrease has not been as good there as in some other areas , the announcements that I made this morning gave a priority to Holyhead . |
| 23 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 24 | If you look at the News item regarding Hoof Branding in the September issue you will see that I recommended any form of security marking and that hoof branding was suggested as an alternative to freezebranding for those who choose not to freezebrand their horses . |
| 25 | I knitted one particular pattern so many times that I dreaded another order as I was beginning to feel like a factory worker . |
| 26 | I did not say that I had irrefutable evidence . |
| 27 | I was invited to join in but always found excuses not to do so , saying that I had early afternoon lessons . |
| 28 | You got all in that , English there , English there , English there and English there , and that I had six merit points yesterday . |
| 29 | Would that I had such help as men must have , |
| 30 | Erm , I erm , employ people , so I decided to have an employment section , six months later when I was reviewing the daytimer , I discovered that I had one sheet in my employment section , er , about a lady I had interviewed and not employed , whereas I had a prospect section that was overflowing , and needed drastic sub-division . |