Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh no , I know that , I know that I mean some people find some things easy , some people find some things hard , do n't they ? |
| 2 | The final morning brought even more snow , so much so , that I spent 2 hours digging my car out . |
| 3 | It is with great sadness that I write this letter having been informed of the possible demise of what can only be the most important publication since the Dead Sea Scrolls . |
| 4 | I mentioned the reduction in unemployment that has taken place in Holyhead , and , while the decrease has not been as good there as in some other areas , the announcements that I made this morning gave a priority to Holyhead . |
| 5 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 6 | ‘ That I had many acquaintances named Svend and that none of them would run off with a teenager . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ They said that I had enough equity to qualify for a multi-currency loan . |
| 8 | Some people claimed that I had another job lined up but time has proved them wrong . |
| 9 | Some people claimed that I had another job lined up but time has proved them wrong . |
| 10 | I had to stop myself telling her that I had another party to go to on Christmas evening — just so I could stay home after everyone had left and stuff my face with leftovers . |
| 11 | I was n't at all sure that I had any right to make the request that I proposed to make . |
| 12 | I say ‘ solitary c. ’ because they gave me a little ward of my own , but it was anything but uncomfortable , as they gave me a treatment which ‘ private ward ’ patients in Britain might envy , except that the food of course was Chinese , and they insisted on giving me 5 meals a day , so that I had some trouble getting my appetite back to normal . |
| 13 | Any more than that I wasted five minutes reading his articles ? |
| 14 | And that I say that picture has appeared on everything , even on china , I think you can buy some at erm ca n't you even with that on it . |
| 15 | The workshop classes were a mixture of all grades of academy , and it was here that I found common ground absorbing my trade instruction ; and happily in this field I was able not to be as conspicuous as I was at school . |
| 16 | He complained , not at length : ‘ This was the first time , and except one , the last , that I found any reason to complain of a Scotish [ sic ] table , and such disappointments , I suppose , must be expected in every country , where there is no great frequence of travellers . ’ |
| 17 | Only that I bought green ones did n't I ? |
| 18 | The disadvantage of being the Society 's spinster is that I spend all weekend smelling of sheep . |
| 19 | ‘ If you remember , Robyn , ’ he replied crisply , ‘ I did say that I wanted this work completed by the end of the summer . |
| 20 | I freely admit that I have many times adopted Jim Oakley 's precept of a " bloody good gallop " , often with spectacular results . |
| 21 | ‘ That I have several acquaintances called Svend . |
| 22 | Just before leaving the consulting room she knew that she had one thing left to do and it was important . |
| 23 | How dared he think it , let alone say it , that she had other men to settle her bills ? |
| 24 | Shortly before he died , Mary had noticed that she had great difficulty swallowing food , had gone to her doctor and he had organized X-rays and tests at the local hospital . |
| 25 | Her mother was surprised that Sarah was not with her but Anne explained that she had important work to finish . |
| 26 | He did n't mind telling her in no uncertain terms to keep her distance from him , not that she had any inclination to do anything else , but obviously felt no compulsion to obey those rules when applied to himself . |
| 27 | This was no credit to her own piety — but what was the use of pretending that she had any piety left ? |
| 28 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 29 | When we arrived she greeted us kindly , her first honeymoon couple , showed us round the cottage , then excused herself , saying that she had 600 lettuces to plant out before tea . |
| 30 | Teaching her all the domestic arts , Melissa reflected , in the hope that she 'd one day end up a housewife and mother in the true Italian tradition . |