Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the fact that he did not refer her to a different psychiatrist convinced me for a long time that I had misconstrued the situation . |
| 2 | It has come through to me as a firm conclusion that , if there is such a thing as premonition , it is something which is instantaneous — a flash of intuition … . |
| 3 | She watches me through a black veil that hangs from a black hat . |
| 4 | The formality of the dining-room furnishings seemed at first to change his mood from ease to starch , but it appeared to me after a short while that he was troubled rather by indecision as to which side I was now on , them or us . |
| 5 | One hundred and twenty five years on , we know a lot more about animals and plants than Darwin did , and still not a single case is known to me of a complex organ that could not have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications . |
| 6 | Without pausing to measure the distance , he launched himself into a desperate leap that carried him right across the opening . |
| 7 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 8 | He must therefore satisfy himself on a regular basis that it does not constitute a statutory nuisance . |
| 9 | I can tell from the way you 're sparking at me like a green-eyed cat that there 's nothing you 'd like more . ’ |
| 10 | This presented itself as a worldly acknowledgement that different communities have different values and different ways of life which they have an instinct and a right to defend . |
| 11 | There 's a strange , almost forced intimacy that can be a burden when it 's so much harder to surprise that same audience and , in Katell 's case , it seems to express itself in a cheery whimsy that masks insecurity . |
| 12 | Others are more subtle , if not downright clever , like the frog-hopper or spittle-bug that , instead of spitting back the sap it does n't want — like greenfly — uses it to surround itself in a frothy mass that hides and protects it from predatory birds and also prevents the soft-skinned body from drying out . |
| 13 | I 'm going to take you to a little place that 'll sell us a bottle of scotch in the back room , and nobody any the wiser . |
| 14 | I am willing to talk to anyone who comes to me with a proposed solution that they believe the House would accept — including the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West and other Labour Members . |
| 15 | He was a highly educated gentleman , a very well known Varsity athlete , but he came to me with a bad report that he was completely and utterly clueless about some of the finer points of simple take-off and landing procedures . |
| 16 | Drawing No. 78 has this comment : ‘ This Plate exhibits one of these new buildings which afford comforts the poor inhabitants of the picturesque seldome enjoy ; but it is but just to observe that the wealthy residents in Ambleside , natives and strangers , are exceedingly attentive to the wants of the needy , and supply them with a discriminating kindness that does equal honour to their heads and to their hearts . ’ |
| 17 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 18 | Similarly we may note that the feeling which was so openly exhibited against the French nobility after the battle of Poitiers reflected something of a growing opinion that , in spite of tradition , the nobility had no absolute right to assume positions of responsibility within the army . |
| 19 | ‘ He told me in a general way that he was American . |
| 20 | On inquiring where the bathroom was , the woman told me in a timid voice that although it was the door facing mine , there would be no hot water available until after supper . |
| 21 | It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move . |
| 22 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 23 | March , the Secretary of State told me in a parliamentary answer that he was setting in train a new procedure for the appointment of a successor to Eric Bolton . |
| 24 | Neutral tones give a feeling of space , so use them in a small room that needs opening up |
| 25 | The region 's new political masters turned to them in a desperate hope that their expertise would make good their own helplessness . |
| 26 | More than seventy-five years later , we are still working out their implications and trying to combine them in a unified theory that will describe everything in the universe . |
| 27 | Like the Jewish American comedian Joan Rivers , for example , who tells jokes about herself as a Jewish woman that key into other women 's silent insecurities . |
| 28 | She had not stopped to think that she might be inserting herself into a social scene that she had walked away from when she had left home . |
| 29 | She smilingly explains that the scanner is a sort of lie-down X-ray and leads me to a narrow bed that slides inch by inch through what looks like a dry-cleaning machine . |
| 30 | George pulled her towards a large hole that was blacker than the night around it . |