Example sentences of "that [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is surely no coincidence that plays dealing with homosexuality and abortion were shown on BBC at the time when these issues were to be debated in the House of Commons and the Press ’ . |
| 2 | He himself had often waited like that , hidden beside a path , ready to strike with a stick or a stone any prey that chanced to come along it . |
| 3 | But if to an alehouse they customers be , Then presently with the ale wife we agree ; When we come to a reckoning , then we do crave Twopence on a shilling , and that we will have , By such cunning ways we our treasure do get , For it is all fish that doth come to our net . |
| 4 | A good churchman , he is a Church Warden — but of a church that ceased to exist in the late 18th century . |
| 5 | Collapse breccias , however , are not related to any particular facies and potential reservoirs resulting from this process are most likely to be found around structural highs that became exposed at various times since , the Zechstein . |
| 6 | We know that if we started to challenge everything we should end up like the centipede that became paralysed through analysis of the movement of its many legs . |
| 7 | The man behind Shoom — a club that is now so legendary that if all the people who claim to have been there in its formative months really had attended , it would have been held in Wembley Stadium not in a sweaty south-east London basement — he resolutely refused to cash in on the boom that became known as acid . |
| 8 | On 2nd June 1914 , The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife , were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb and that triggered a series of events that led to the outbreak of war on 4th , August 1914 — the war that became known as The Great War . |
| 9 | They used a method that became known as ‘ participant observation ’ , in which the researcher both observes the social processes of a group and actually participates in the life of that group . |
| 10 | At the end of the Second World War the US and UK set out to construct a new order for international trade and investment , a set of institutions and arrangements that became known as the Bretton Woods system . |
| 11 | In video-taped evidence , Mr Reagan has admitted he approved the covert arms for hostages operation , that became known as the Iran Contra affair , although he says he did n't authorise his staff to break the law . |
| 12 | Video taped evidence , in which Mr Reagan admits he approved the covert Arms for Hostages operation , that became known as the Iran Contra affair , is to be made public by the trial judge . |
| 13 | These were deposited in shallow marine barrier/lagoon complexes that became established at the edge of the basin on top of the marginal platform of the Z1 Anhydrite . |
| 14 | These sediments were deposited in a coastal sand-barrier complex that became established at the edge of the platform . |
| 15 | These were deposited in lagoonal , intertidal and sabkha environments , respectively , that became established behind the barrier complex . |
| 16 | Something that became woven into the legend and the myth of the day , ’ said Dierdriu . |
| 17 | Peter 's an extraordinarily cranky man with a venom that became directed towards Katherine . |
| 18 | We safeguarded ourselves by leaving one man behind to clear the rabbits that became entangled in front of the main wood . |
| 19 | Notably , the Northcote-Trevelyan reforms helped to root out political patronage and corruption in the state bureaucracy in the second half of the nineteenth century , and to establish a public administration that operated according to principles of professionalism and the ethos of ‘ public service ’ . |
| 20 | In 1928 he had found , when attempting to sell BIP films to the US , that the doors were ‘ barred in the faces of UK producers ’ , and the excitement that Blackmail caused at home was not matched in the US . |
| 21 | A government that sought to remain in office after losing a vote of confidence in the House of Commons would find its position politically intenable : it would lack the political authority to govern . |
| 22 | The decade began with congress passing various bills that sought to cut off funding for the Vietnam War and in 1973 legislators moved on to pass the War Powers Act over president Nixon 's veto . |
| 23 | One of the things that distinguish teaching as a profession is the extent to which people 's implicit personal philosophies are constantly and necessarily relevant to their professional impact . |
| 24 | It also tells you about the communications and equipment that make working from home possible . |
| 25 | Announcing the changes in a Commons written answer , Lord James said that planned spending on legal aid would still rise by 40 per cent over the next three years , in spite of the changes , with more people than ever being granted legal aid . |
| 26 | and you said there was actually this the two Irish fellas that got killed in the tunnel ? |
| 27 | " Well , that 's that got to do with it ? " |
| 28 | Yeah , well it 's like this fellow that got done for speeding . |
| 29 | ‘ It makes me sound like a parcel that got sent to the wrong address . ’ |
| 30 | It was the regime that got rid of them . |