Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's stuff that I like that them two do n't , and vice versa , but we 've got enough in common and we respect each other . ’ |
| 2 | You know when he 's suggest that I thirty three years ago |
| 3 | It was when I got back to my new room there that I first came across my new neighbours , Jane and Mark Walsh , and their two children , Sonja and Darren . |
| 4 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 5 | It was in the context of ‘ direction ’ that I first met Julian of Norwich and subsequently a wealth of other spiritual classics . |
| 6 | Ever since then , China in its many and varied aspects has been in my mind , and I believe it was on that Saturday morning in Aunt Janie 's potato patch that I first became interested in the Orient . |
| 7 | It was during the early 30s and on one of my annual visits to eastern Canada that I first became acquainted with that noted Canadian humorist , Dr.Stephen Leacock . |
| 8 | It was in the autumn of 1938 that I first visited Hollywood , spending the best part of a fortnight in San Francisco and Los Angeles . |
| 9 | One of the reasons for this preference may be that I first came to know it at Windrush . |
| 10 | It was here , at the BCHC that I first began to hear the dictionary of cancer , to see the effect of the disease and to learn about it in any useful and positive way . |
| 11 | It was later , in my wartime hospital that I first realised that the Second Commandment had not been given to Moses on Mount Sinai but to an Irish priest upon the Mountains of Mourne . |
| 12 | It was also at Canberra Primary School in White City that I first realized that I was black . |
| 13 | It was there that I first heard ‘ The Skater 's Waltz ’ . |
| 14 | When my children were very small we used to live on the outskirts of Richmond Park , where every day I used to take my eldest child for a walk , and it was here that I first began to collect horse mushrooms . |
| 15 | It was during my first year at university that I first came across it in a book by James Tyler Kent in a public library . |
| 16 | It was at one of their conferences that I first came across organized lesbians and gays . |
| 17 | It 's in his adopted home town that I first witness him . |
| 18 | Back then it was called ‘ nancy boys ’ which was what my father used to call homosexuals , and he thought that all actors were homosexuals , so I could n't tell him that everyone in the company that I first joined was homosexual — except me . |
| 19 | It was around this time that I first discovered the darker side of ornithology — the effect of man on the environment . |
| 20 | It was , ironically enough , at a conference of headteachers about five years ago that I first heard this now familiar piece of Machiavellian wisdom quoted by an HMI . |
| 21 | It had been from their lips that I first heard uttered the expression avare comme un juif , followed by a vicious attack on the only Jewish family in their village to have survived the war and returned to claim their old house . |
| 22 | I had spent three years researching contemporary mysticism , and it was through John Michel , a colleague of mine who was an authority on Druid mythology and the ancient sites of Britain , that I first met Ringo . |
| 23 | It was the next afternoon that I first saw her , she was in an incubator . |
| 24 | It was in this ‘ elephant-of-the-sky forest ’ that I first saw the beautiful royal blue pheasant with the white tail . |
| 25 | It was in 1924 when I was fourteen that I first went to work for Mrs Field . |
| 26 | You might be interested to know that I first learnt of CPRW while rummaging through old papers left by the Misses Keating — and there were many ! |
| 27 | What is more , Celtic and German dialects received very early the Greek verb in the sense of " to graft " : it has given " enter " in French , " impfen " in German , and I like to remember that I first met this word in my childhood as a current term of Piedmontese agriculture . |
| 28 | It was at the conference in the Vatican mentioned earlier that I first put forward the suggestion that maybe time and space together formed a surface that was finite in size but did not have any boundary or edge . |
| 29 | It was in 1945 , as a 13-year-old schoolboy witnessing the general election campaign , that I first had aspirations to become a Member of this House . |
| 30 | It was in 1989 that I first became aware of Scandinavian racing 's revolutionary change regarding use of the whip when profiling their four-times champion jump jockey , Tom Luhnenschloss . |