Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [that] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean if if I 'd done that this morning and I 'd written it all up before you came in and then said well what we 've done is this and then we did that and then we did that but as as it was generated as we discussed then then you were with me I hope at the way it went |
| 2 | In the Merry & Co office , I 'd learned that each carriage ( built of strong unpainted corrugated aluminium with the corrugated lying horizontally ) was eighty-five feet long ; and there were fifteen carriages in all , counting the horses , the baggage and the Lorrimores . |
| 3 | As I go back downstairs I begin to feel that this woman is making fools of us all — of Summerchild , Tite and Harold Wilson , of Ken Hurren and myself . |
| 4 | As the lorry braked ferociously in the lonely country road with a hiss of air brakes , and began to career backwards towards my Mini , its reversing lights two angry eyes beaming at me , I began to see that same skyline as the place I most wanted to be . |
| 5 | How far this was true I do not know , but I do know that any suggestion from her to Harold Wilson was likely to receive an affirmative answer . |
| 6 | However , I do believe that this exchange together with the evidence I heard illustrates the understandable concern of the dock company to ensure that it would have unrestricted access to the port for itself and its sublessees who would operate there . |
| 7 | ‘ This is excellent , lad , and I do believe that this exercise is having a beneficial side-effect , namely an improvement in both your grammar and the general ordering of your still-immature intellect . |
| 8 | ‘ I am familiar with the darker view which encompasses bestiality , incest , parricide , rustling , infanticide and the murderous rivalry within the Women 's Institute , but I had imagined that this view was the product of a warped approach to life and greatly exaggerated . ’ |
| 9 | I had hoped that some progress would be made in the autumn and I am disappointed that that has not happened . |
| 10 | Yes I I I had noted that that discussion had gone on and assurances have been given to Humberside that North Yorkshire would no stray in the sense of putting their new settlement into Humberside . |
| 11 | But I had to accept that this examination was far more important to them . |
| 12 | Erm and er I 've felt that same sense of rightness at many times over these years , this is now our thirty seventh year ? |
| 13 | I once said to a small group of Reception children working in the play area : " I 've heard that this bracelet has some strange magic powers . |
| 14 | I 've heard that this farm was a very busy place on Tuesday nights and Wednesday mornings and the kitchen would be piled high with eggs and butter . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've learned that this year , ’ continues Simmons . |
| 16 | and I need to ensure that this experience erm well I I need to make sure that I will be evaluating it in a similar way as I went along . |
| 17 | I have to say that each morning when I walk off platform 16 , I invariably see five or six BR employees hanging around doing nothing in particular . |
| 18 | I have to say that neither piece is vintage Schumann , but when the old magic really starts to work ( as in the ‘ Gloria ’ and ‘ Agnus Dei ’ of the Requiem ) , one is left in no doubt that Schumann 's was a creative mind of the very first order . |
| 19 | He really wants the mud to show his best , but I have to say that this ground helped him get the trip . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ As an investor , I have to say that this environment does not allow me to put more money into Hong Kong . |
| 21 | Now I that 's a luxury I have to say that most recruiting people do not get . |
| 22 | It has equally been mooted that postmodernism in the aesthetic realm — and I have argued that such postmodernism first surfaced in the Surrealism and more generally in the historical avant-garde of the 1920s — has been an important condition of formation of poststructuralism in the human sciences ( Huyssen 1984 ; see above , Chapter Three ) . |
| 23 | But it is a central implication of the argument I have presented that this price will have to be paid . |
| 24 | But I have heard that that scoundrel El-ahrairah means to come and steal them if he can . |
| 25 | And although I have to admit that this tale of a French prince who is turned into a frog by his wicked aunt and grows up to be a prince among frogs and a secret agent to boot , did n't grab me , it will surely keep the little ones enthralled . |
| 26 | I have shown that most night visits are made before 0100 . |
| 27 | In my own work with Japanese quail I have found that this process may lead to a preference for a partner that is slightly novel — just a bit different but not too different from the members of the opposite sex it knew when it was young ( Bateson , Mate Choice ) . |
| 28 | I wanted to believe that this man — this stranger — had seen me and wanted me . |
| 29 | She has revealed that another priest tried to pressure her into getting Jennifer adopted . |
| 30 | If the physiotherapist sets the correct goals , they will be achieved , but she has to recognize that each patient reacts differently to rehabilitation , depending on a variety of factors . |