Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] that [art] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Popular idiom has it that the four themes are very imperfectly combined in the family : ‘ children ruin a marriage ’ , ‘ sex and family life simply do n't go together ’ , and so forth . |
| 2 | AN OLD gentleman once told me that the two things that caused the greatest rural rows were the Church and fox-hunting . |
| 3 | In a dream a tall thin priest informed him that the two pieces came from the same votive cylinder and had been cut in two to make earrings for a statue of the god Ninib . |
| 4 | British Rail tell us that the three minutes past seven train , due into Oxford at three minutes past seven that is , that travels from Banbury to Paddington , has been cancelled this evening . |
| 5 | Our insights into the competitive nature of the market process and its entrepreneurial character teach us that the two notions of competition and entrepreneurship are , at least in the sense used here , analytically inseparable . |
| 6 | No one can persuade me that the 3,000 licensees who went to Blackpool to take part in a protest march during the week of the Conservative conference are all mindless militants . |
| 7 | ‘ My wife has informed me that the two boys who attacked you stole your handbag . ’ |