Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Williams appeared to like the idea , Orton totally changed the part so that it could fit him , not so much like a glove , but like a well-crafted cabinet , one in which Ken could be displayed at his finest and with plenty of space to ensure that nothing got in his way . |
| 2 | The smell was so all-pervasive that nothing consumed within half a mile of it could taste of anything not pertaining to dog . |
| 3 | Even if X. Ray was only the Baptist to some little woodchuck 's saviour , I do know that nothing died with Osvaldo except his own faults . |
| 4 | It does seem though , that nothing came of these leases , and during 1749 upon request by Sir William Fleming , one John Lawson ( a Quaker ) sent up Joseph Vipone to see the mines at Coniston and for this Lawson paid him 12s. plus 4s. for a horse for four days . |
| 5 | 9.16 Developing neighbouring property Landlords frequently include a proviso stating that nothing contained in the lease shall prevent them from altering , adding to , refurbishing and generally executing works to neighbouring property . |
| 6 | He was so close , she could n't think , she certainly could n't speak , explain that nothing mattered except the longing , the sudden urgency , the need to feel his mouth on hers . |
| 7 | If you made everything into a joke , people thought that nothing mattered to you , that you took nothing seriously . |
| 8 | It seemed that nothing mattered to her now . |
| 9 | It is an absolute rule of the Punch Table that nothing said around it ever finds its way into print . |
| 10 | But the next day Mr Clarke insisted that nothing had in fact changed from the NHS White Paper because it had not talked of cash limits , only of firm budgets . |
| 11 | The management ref refused to talk all the time and after a while it just got depressing , the fact that nothing seemed to be happening . |
| 12 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 13 | And she was going to make sure that nothing stood in her way ! |
| 14 | There is always a danger of this happening with innovation , of those instigating and leading a new initiative coming to believe that nothing happened in the field before their arrival . |
| 15 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 16 | It seemed that everyone had to be classified according to height and weight so that they would compete against boys of roughly the same size in the school sports at the end of the year . |
| 17 | I think that everyone had to be rescued by a motor boat as we drifted helplessly around , vainly splashing at the water with these pieces of wood . |
| 18 | They knew him so well that everyone fell into a hush and appeared to move around him on tiptoes . |
| 19 | At team meetings anyone was welcome to have his say , thereby building cohesion and a feeling that everyone belonged to the unit . |
| 20 | But why could n't he rid himself of the eerie sensation that it had already happened , that everyone knew except him , that he was being deliberately kept in the dark ? |
| 21 | Taking a summer holiday used to be regarded as a luxury that everyone owed to themselves . |
| 22 | She realized that everyone looked at her with new eyes , handling her like a precious piece of porcelain to be admired but not touched . |
| 23 | During his reign there were no murders , no wars , no robberies , and gold rings lay untouched in the open , so that everyone referred to his age as the Frótha-frith , the ‘ peace of Fróthi ’ . |
| 24 | He said the figures , ‘ implied that everyone removed from a hospital waiting list has been treated when blatantly that is not the case . |
| 25 | It is very sad to report that the entire actuarial staff of the Society was in bed before midnight and that everyone appeared with rosy complexion and clear eyes the following morning … |
| 26 | Not that I planned on dying . |
| 27 | But it was only later , when I was forced to admit that , at the time of writing , I had begun to become anorexic again , that I realised in addition how closely the central character 's circumstances resembled those of anorexia nervosa . |
| 28 | The natural justification of my choice between the fruit would be something like ‘ The peach looked delicious ’ , which conveys the full information that I expected to be responding in accord with ‘ Be aware ’ until the last trace of the flavour faded from my mouth . |
| 29 | It 's rather like the scene that I penned at the beginning of this column . |
| 30 | Certain parts of me were defined by the grass that I dented with my feet or the cushion that I hollowed with my back and had an identity both in time and space ; but the breasts and cunt he briefly fondled existed only because touched at his will and through his perception of them . |