Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [adj] [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I shall do nothing for the simple reason that — knowing Doreen — it would be a waste of time and effort . |
| 2 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 3 | It hit me for the first time that the bands and comedians were going to be performing here for free , for John , for us . |
| 4 | When my feeble protests were ignored back there it hit me for the first time that I was n't a civilian any more . |
| 5 | The point is that the inference which you give to it is that they 're not quite fit to be Governors , by comparison with others , and I 'd like to defend that because I can assure you that I have never ever nominated a Governor for a school who I have not thought would be advantageous to that Board of Governors to have as a member and that he will be he or she will be a contributor to that particular school , and I 've done it time and time and time again and indeed on occasions have had headmasters coming to me and thanking me for the particular person that I put in . |
| 6 | Everyone loves me for the very things that you want me to cover up ! |
| 7 | Ruth kept her distance from him but she could do nothing about the wretched aura that surrounded him . |
| 8 | I said earlier that we want to involve all aspects of the educational system , and for example we have already written to every local authority in the country , telling them about the general themes that we have identified as important , asking for their comments , for their suggestions of other matters that we should perhaps look into , and also asking for their help and involvement . |
| 9 | ‘ So , given that I have a political opportunity , I tend to become an enthusiast harnessing the forces that are at work , trying to get the best out of them , trying to use them for the political purposes that I believe in . |
| 10 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
| 11 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 12 | One might compare the difficulty with that of trying to write rules for how one might indicate to someone of the opposite sex that one finds them attractive ; while psychologists and biologists might make detailed observations and generalisations about how human beings of a particular culture behave in such a situation , most people would rightly feel that studying these generalisations would be no substitute for practical experience , and that relying on a text-book could lead to hilarious consequences . |
| 13 | We seek to rid ourselves of the awful thought that we might have some responsibility for what has happened . |
| 14 | Once we can rid ourselves of the dual notions that some magic divides jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional questions and that all matters of law have one inexorably correct meaning which must always be supplied by the courts , we are in a position to make a reasoned choice . |
| 15 | It 's only to someone outside the black hole that it appears to stop . ’ |
| 16 | We found ourselves by the gloomy canal that runs through the north of the park . |
| 17 | The duo 's set seemed lethargic , a muddy mix robbing them of the textured subtleties that make their records so invigorating . |
| 18 | That remi you 've C Cynthia saying that reminds me of the other thing that came out in feedback . |
| 19 | The Ras of Tigre , who had greatly facilitated Napier 's advance on Magdala , was suitably rewarded with firearms and cannon , with which during the troubled years that followed Theodore 's death he was able to overcome his rivals . |
| 20 | Subsequently , they carried out the investigation ‘ Maxbox ’ , which involved deciding which of the open boxes that can be made from a 12 cm x 12 cm square of paper by cutting squares from the corners and folding into a lidless cuboid ‘ held the most ’ . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | He aligned himself with the traditional view that the Scriptures describe unseen things by the form of visible things so as to stimulate reason in cognitive understanding , itself a spiritual reality which is an image of full contemplative knowledge . |
| 23 | The lay brother was quiet , contenting himself with the dry comment that he had done enough penance to wipe a thousand years of purgatory from the debt his soul owed God . |
| 24 | He comforted himself with the fleeting thought that at least he had met Sir James Selkirk , who had found Alexander III 's corpse , and wryly concluded he would question him if the opportunity presented itself . |
| 25 | You 've sent me five handwritten pages of quotations ( some of which concern horses — genetically manipulated animals ) , which in the seven-point-solid type that my Bible is printed in would come to about half a page . |
| 26 | And finding himself in the musical cauldron that was Minneapolis at the turn of the '80s must have helped … |
| 27 | Two pieces of matter that are close to each other have less energy than the same two pieces a long way apart , because you have to expend energy to separate them against the gravitational force that is pulling them together . |
| 28 | Because now I know there 's nothing behind the fancy shirt that interests me in the slightest . ’ |
| 29 | Irene had lived surrounded by the gales of hatred , but remained untouched by them behind the high wall that had protected her since childhood … |
| 30 | Just as children are very familiar with drama itself through the dramatic fictions that they see enacted on television and on film , so too they have encountered the idea of still images in other contexts : their own family snapshots , freeze frame on the video recorder , sculptures , waxworks and comic strips . |