Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at Seto More 's house on Jervis Street that I experienced Chinese hospitality at first hand . |
| 2 | Before passing to it , I should say that I heard oral evidence from Mr. Mahmoud , called on behalf of C.T. , and from Mr. Joseph Kasner , the director of the landlord . |
| 3 | The document was in the name of Mustafa Ibn Assaad Shihada Zamzam , Mrs Zamzam 's husband , and when she saw that I recognised this type of British mandate deed Mrs Zamzam 's face lit up as if a great discovery had been made . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's not my style , Ian — you should realise that I set great store by not creating ‘ scenes ’ ; by not making those that I esteem suffer any unnecessary discomfort , whether it be social , physical , or otherwise . ’ |
| 5 | The L N E R and L M S. And er I could see then that I knew that superintendent in the private days of the railways . |
| 6 | Oh I did n't notice that I saw that thing in the car but I did n't notice a bracket . |
| 7 | Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’ |
| 8 | Not that I 've any time for that widow of his . |
| 9 | Is the Minister aware that I returned this morning from a short visit to four countries in the middle east ? |
| 10 | ‘ It was when I was working on Wildlife Safari to Argentina , filming in a subtropical province in the north , that I got this lump on my back . |
| 11 | My diary records such incidents as , ‘ Had to eat another roll at breakfast , much to my disgust ’ , or ‘ M. insisted that I eat another piece of toast , so I walked out in disgust . ’ |
| 12 | Last month I went back over the past 40 years of owning knitting machines and described some of the ways that I made sufficient money for the machines to pay for themselves . |
| 13 | If you look at the News item regarding Hoof Branding in the September issue you will see that I recommended any form of security marking and that hoof branding was suggested as an alternative to freezebranding for those who choose not to freezebrand their horses . |
| 14 | Aside from the fact that I use this place for a specific purpose — a purpose that requires privacy , peace and quiet — it might lead to considerable misunderstandings . |
| 15 | The Committee has asked that I seek further information on the way in which the Society is developing its campaign and the nature of the second report . |
| 16 | I , , be having been elected to the office of Vice Chair , declare that I take that office upon myself and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it according to the best of my judgement and ability . |
| 17 | I should say also that I take some comfort from noticing that the judgments were reserved for five months . |
| 18 | Erm , I erm , employ people , so I decided to have an employment section , six months later when I was reviewing the daytimer , I discovered that I had one sheet in my employment section , er , about a lady I had interviewed and not employed , whereas I had a prospect section that was overflowing , and needed drastic sub-division . |
| 19 | No matter that I had little knowledge of regional variety . |
| 20 | I commented to Miklós that I had little hope of the New World solving the problems of the Old when it could not face up to its own difficulties . |
| 21 | And it meant that I had free access to the whole of the so much so , I had a key to the bottom of entry in er access to the firm and I could get in when I liked . |
| 22 | I told him that I had another shop in Westmead which has been approved by the Ministry of Environment and the RSPCA and that this one will be run in the same way . |
| 23 | Without really still thinking that I had any chance of success , I went back down to the Circle Line and journeyed on to Liverpool Street . |
| 24 | No way could a person eat something like that — not that I had any intention of killing and consuming the poor creature , now that my eyes had been opened . |
| 25 | I can claim that I did , and that I never breached that trust , assuming that I had any information of a sufficiently intriguing character to make it worthwhile betraying a friend . |
| 26 | I should add that I had some entertainment on learning that not so long ago the local minister had run off with a young man . |
| 27 | I know that my hon. Friend will understand if I say that I had some difficulty in persuading everybody to come round a table when I was talking only to the parties in Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
| 29 | To the late Dr Melville Clark , the Reader in Rhetoric , I owe the discovery that I had some talent for editing text . |
| 30 | Suffice it to say that I reached this estimate on the basis of the preservation of a vestige of the uterus and as a result of obtaining a chemical reaction for blood from periosteum . |