Example sentences of "[pron] [Wh pn] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll keep an open mind about the caller 's sex until we get confirmation from Bidwell , but it was probably a woman , probably also someone who knew that old Mr. Lorrimer was expected to be in hospital yesterday , and who did n't know that the appointment had been cancelled . |
| 2 | In fact , now that I come to think of it , I have a feeling it may have been Lord Darlington himself who made that particular remark to me that time he called me into his study some two months after that exchange with Miss Kenton outside the billiard room . |
| 3 | So , for all you who said that last year 's Contact Day was the best thing DTI and SERC had ever done and could there please be another — this is it ! |
| 4 | ‘ As for me , I think he was tougher because I was a girl — one who felt that any kind of talkback would have just been out of order . |
| 5 | Not many heads would go as far as one who insists that male members of staff must wear their jackets in classrooms even on the warmest of days . |
| 6 | I am not one who believes that extra resources necessarily solve problems or necessarily smooth the way to their solution . |
| 7 | The relatively liberal de Graaff had been replaced as Governor-General by de Jonge , a hardliner ( it was he who pronounced that Dutch rule would continue for another 300 years ) , and the Colonial Minister was H. Colijn , whose notorious book , Colonial Problems of Today and Tomorrow ( 1928 ) , had declared that the Indonesians could not expect self-government ‘ in the humanly foreseeable future ’ : indeed , he dismissed the notion that there was any Indonesia : ‘ The islands … are a unity for the reason that they compose the Netherlands Indies and for that reason alone . ’ |
| 8 | ANYONE who thought that naughty fun-and-games in the Japanese stockmarket had ended with the wave of securities scandals two years ago needs to think again . |
| 9 | Anyone who imagined that precise experience would know its full intrinsic nature but they might or might not realize that this was a good experience . |
| 10 | The guillotine motion after 10 o'clock tonight will attempt to preclude sensible contributions , attempt to preclude people from dealing with the difficulties and technicalities in the Bill , and pose a real problem for those of us who believe that local government is not a political football to be kicked about at whim , but an essential part of our democracy for the provision of essential services . |