Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roberto had written and asked me to carry for him in that year 's Open . |
| 2 | He had lived with his past for the best part of fifty years , and his book tells what he had come to know of it over that interval of time , with help from the theories of Marx and Freud . |
| 3 | Commenting on the criticisms , a Scottish Prison Service spokesman said last night : ‘ We do believe in good industrial relations and we certainly hope the unions will be willing to work with us to that end . ’ |
| 4 | When Hullmandel published his treatise The Art of Drawing on Stone in 1824 , the possibilities of lithography were better advertised ( although Hullmandel was careful not to describe the actual printing process , so that artists would have to come to him for that service ) , and Lear was one of the very first to be attracted to the technique . |
| 5 | Talking to Gavin Selerie in 1983 McGrath detailed some of the influences that came to work on him at that time . |
| 6 | ‘ Who do you think you are , to talk to me in that manner ? ’ |
| 7 | So we really we one of us to be here to look after him in that sense , one of us gets paid |
| 8 | No , but if the hon. Gentleman has views that he would like to express to me on that closure , I should be delighted to hear from him . |
| 9 | To look at it from that point of view . |
| 10 | In Woolwich 's case the main authorities are set out chronologically as an appendix and I find it convenient to deal with them in that order and to describe the principle above referred to as ‘ the Woolwich principle . ’ |
| 11 | I had n't much more time to think about him at that moment , because a large black car swept past the open windows with Laura at the wheel . |
| 12 | I myself , for example , tend to be an old-fashioned Coleridge and psychologistic critic , you know , I look for motives in Shakespearean characters , in ways which Elsie Knights told us we should n't do , and I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 13 | And I do this because I think Shakespeare encourages us to make inferences and to think about them in that way . |
| 14 | This last the verderers thought the least likely course because the escape had been made nearer to the north of the depression than the south and it would therefore take a day longer to get round it on that side . |
| 15 | It is easy to call Mr Honey ford , the Bradford head teacher , a racist and to organize against him on that basis but less easy to show precisely how and why this is the case . |
| 16 | There can be little doubt that Hayward had come to rely upon him over that period , and felt in some sense that he had been abandoned . |
| 17 | And we also talked about maybe you could say , erm , you know , if you continue to do a job , maybe we 'll look you know , at developing you further , but it 's all sort of , pretty similar sort of things you 're going to say to him in that situation . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been wanting to speak to you about that business the other night ’ |