Example sentences of "[pron] [that] [prep] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This makes us feel very feeble , as we have friends of our age who think nothing of motoring from here to Lowestoft in the day — but such feats are not for us , though we flatter ourselves that in most respects we are in pretty good nick . |
| 2 | Roy Dickens , one of our 400 metre runners , told me that on one occasion he and his brother Brian were shopping with their mother when a white man mugged an old lady and ran off with her handbag . |
| 3 | In his next letter Leslie told me that on that day he had been assigned ‘ a rather painful duty … from 4 o'clock this afternoon for 24 hours I am escort to an officer under close arrest , a captain , I believe . |
| 4 | It never occurred to me that within three years I should hate the Italians with an unrelenting hatred . |
| 5 | ‘ It strikes me that in new clothes you could be highly presentable . |
| 6 | It is only now clear to me that in actual fact it must have been a day later . |
| 7 | Richmann seethed at Henri 's arrogance , and consoled himself that with any luck he would n't have to stand for the superstitious fool 's whims for much longer Drawing a gun from a shoulder holster , he prepared to fight his way through the streets if necessary ; it would be nothing compared to what was to come , he thought . |
| 8 | I refer to your recent interview for the above post and regret to advise you that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful . |
| 9 | I refer to your recent interview for the above post and regret to advise you that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful . |
| 10 | I refer to your recent application and interview for the above position and regret to inform you that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful . |
| 11 | Well , let me tell you that on this occasion I would welcome a little more intolerance from you . |
| 12 | Being only 5′ 2½″ tall myself I too feel very strongly about the unfairness of this , but there is absolutely nothing I can do about it except to warn you that in these circumstances you do need to be very accurate in counting calories in order to achieve a good rate of weight loss . |
| 13 | But above all , I needed something that at that time I was quite unable to put into words . |
| 14 | Er I 've never had any dwindling intellectual powers er simply because I 've never had any intellectual powers in the first place , so I would agree with him that in all cases I find dealing with er matters of a er er er er of , of legislation er en enormously complex . |
| 15 | Again , on the face of the statute , I can not see any reason why in this case the constable should do more than tell the driver the reason under section 7(3) why breath specimens can not be taken or used ; tell him that in these circumstances he is required to give a specimen of blood or urine but that it is for the constable to decide which ; warn him that a failure to provide the specimen required may render him liable to prosecution ; and then , if the constable decides to require blood , ask the driver if there are any reasons why a specimen can not or should not be taken from him by a doctor . |
| 16 | The same reasoning , I suspect , saw to it that at one time you could n't get olives , only peanut and crisps , in smart bars in Spain , because olives were what peasants ate . |
| 17 | Someone who gives this answer clearly takes it that in some cases it works , and we must not beg the question against him . |
| 18 | ‘ It seems to us that like great ships you are in fact approaching the end of the storm . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It seems to us that like great ships you are in fact approaching the end of the storm . ’ |
| 20 | Although light is made up of waves , Planck 's quantum hypothesis tells us that in some ways it behaves as if it were composed of particles : it can be emitted or absorbed only in packets , or quanta . |