Example sentences of "that something [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst women 's role as mothers was of paramount importance to society — particularly after the exile when maternity , for various pragmatic reasons , became the means of transmitting and establishing in biological terms , as it were , religious and ethnic identity — it would seem logical , given our culture — nature opposition and the fact that culture seeks to control and impose upon whatever has been construed as natural , that something had to be done in cultural terms about the natural function of childbirth . |
| 2 | A public consensus began to form , especially in rural areas , that something had to be done to force the Westminster government to act against the killing and crime . |
| 3 | It was in 1972 , when I was twenty-five , that I decided that something had to be done . |
| 4 | There had not been time yet to find out exactly how brilliant the child was , but Miss Honey had learned enough to realise that something had to be done about it as soon as possible . |
| 5 | John Feaver , LTA Director of Events and Tournaments , said , ‘ Our experiences last year convinced us that something had to be done and we hope that this system will really help the enthusiastic spectator . ’ |
| 6 | On the one hand , business leaders agreed that something had to be done to the health-care system because the cost of covering their workers was eroding their profits . |
| 7 | Most people acknowledged that something had to be done , but Congress continued to drag its heels . |
| 8 | At the end of the war the Buckinghams decided that something had to be done ; not Mrs Buckingham , who was still repining , but Harriet 's vast web of paternal relations . |
| 9 | They said that something had to be done to put right the mess which the Government had made of the Self-Governing Schools etc . |
| 10 | He told police many people hated working in the hangar and the thought had just come into his head that something had to be done . |
| 11 | ‘ The club realised that something had to be done . |
| 12 | Mamma d'Agostino made sure that something came from Rico every month , and Sean and Michael looked after most things anyway . |
| 13 | ‘ And it seems that something happened at Dornhausen at 11.30 hours on April 15 1945 . |
| 14 | ‘ I think , ’ she said , deliberately lowering the tone of her voice , which was bordering on the hysterical , ‘ that something happened to you in the past , you loved someone else , and it 's turned you into a bitter man . |
| 15 | 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 . |