Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I apologise for my temper and any inconvenience I have caused you , and I assure you that my grandmother will adore the things you showed me today . |
| 2 | ‘ The Queen has said that my lady shall have a place in the bed . |
| 3 | Boy-wonder karate expert , I thought , and I hoped that my sister would get the hill and the record collection ; some of the Goodman discs were valuable . |
| 4 | ‘ And tell her that my party will become an engagement party . ’ |
| 5 | In any case , my father was obviously a bit of an embarrassment to his brother : Harold Swan pressed home the point that my father might have a fit during a performance . |
| 6 | Cos I have n't said that my MP can have a pay rise , and as I vote for my M P , and you vote for your M P , they have to ask us first as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 7 | On the Saturdays I would scrub the kitchen floor , black and polish the kitchen grate , and polish the knives , so that my mother could have a little rest on her return from several hours cleaning , sometimes having to walk at least a mile to her regular place of work . |
| 8 | Tragedy has been instructed by his record company , A&M , to take his song ‘ Bullet ’ from the group 's forthcoming album ‘ Black Range ’ , fearing that its inclusion would prompt an outcry among prominent US censorship campaigners . |
| 9 | Count Otto Lambsdorff , the West German FDP chair , who was present , declared that its formation would avoid a split in the liberal centre vote . |
| 10 | This new decision , however , was overruled when it was discovered that its passage would require a larger majority . |
| 11 | Information about the target 's position passes automatically to the computer , which calculates where the gun should point so that its shell will hit the target . |
| 12 | Hasbro , the British makers of Sindy , agreed that its doll should have a facelift so she no longer looks like Barbie . |
| 13 | York seems to have hesitated over raising men , probably for this reason since it decided that its contingent should wear the city 's badge until they reached Pontefract , and then Gloucester 's as well . |
| 14 | York seems to have hesitated over raising men , probably for this reason since it decided that its contingent should wear the city 's badge until they reached Pontefract , and then Gloucester 's as well . |
| 15 | ( iv ) Development of oesophageal ulceration after emergency sclerotherapy delayed randomisation as it was felt that its pressure would increase the hazards of oesophageal transection in patients randomised to this arm of the trial . |
| 16 | it is a non-adjusting event of such materiality that its non-disclosure would affect the ability of users of the accounts to reach a proper understanding of the financial position |
| 17 | Ranald fetched his harp , and he sang a story of a great selkie , one of the seal people , who loved a land maiden but warned her that if she took their son away from him , the baby would kill him when he grew up ; but in fear that her child would become a wild selkie himself she stole the baby and reared him inland as a normal man . |
| 18 | Acceptance of pain was the bridge that enabled a girl to relinquish her hope that her clitoris would become a penis , and to become instead a mature woman whose sexuality was focused upon her vagina . |
| 19 | Several women felt too vulnerable or exposed to remain ; another left dramatically , announcing that her anger would destroy the group . |
| 20 | For a moment she w anted to say that her husband would run the order up to the farm in his van , but something else quickly stepped in and said no . |
| 21 | She knew that her husband would take no risks and yet he should have been home by now . |
| 22 | She had not , however , until last night , supposed that her husband might have a living near the Julians . |
| 23 | Mr Evans-Lombe said that it was plain that Mrs Wordingham had intended that her husband should receive the income under her 1989 will , and that its omission was the result of a mistake by the solicitor in carrying out his instructions . |
| 24 | She noticed the girl 's apparent excitement , her shining eyes and lightness of step as she made ready for the adventure ; and again she wondered , surprised that her charge should give the appearance of a damsel in love , one shortly to be reunited with her bridegroom . |
| 25 | This was accompanied by a thinly veiled threat that her retention would cause a serious impediment to the educational efficiency of the school . |
| 26 | Did she then grow impatient , and concerned at the pasty cooling in the wickerwork basket , lighted a candle and bravely set off up the tunnel determined that her daddy would have a hot meal ? |
| 27 | Those who predicted that her reign would see the end of the British monarchy have been proved stoutly wrong . |
| 28 | However , I am not hopeful that her example will force the institution to reassess its attitude to the critical account , for even the fears of someone like Stead , which came from a central location of police power at the Staff College at Bramshill , seem to have largely fallen on stony ground . |
| 29 | The Great Mother passes through a symbolic death as she recognizes that her body can bear no more children . |
| 30 | Yet as far as we know , these pinpricks to the memory that she was queen of Scots did not seriously upset her ready assumption that her mother would do the job for her . |