Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain said : ‘ My conscience dictates that I drive down the Cap and interview Peter Leary . |
| 2 | I blow out so hard that I mist up the windscreen . |
| 3 | I think to be a good teaching aid something has to say ‘ Well I think this because ’ and , as it were , retrace the chain of reasoning that I 've just the sort of chain that I 've given you . |
| 4 | At times I feel so tired that I throw down the pen in despair ; but it is soon taken up again , and , like a pygmy Antaeus , it seems to have imbibed fresh vigour from its prostration . |
| 5 | Er , the first thing is I put on the top of my draught that I 'd rather the pupils were n't involved at this stage I 'd rather they were involved in the over view with form tutor . |
| 6 | Yes I mean issue with illegitimate children or his affair means that I mean even the line he was running is okay because I 'm rich so it 's not gon na and it 's not gon na and so he 's got these two sort of values , that if you are a single parent and you 're poor that makes you lesser and more immoral than if you were a single parent and you 're rich . |
| 7 | And , and also that , he then goes on to say that the revolution , it is n't , it 's not a re re final thing , it 's not an insurrection , er he says it 's not like writing an essay , you know all these er analogies , that I mean basically the revolution is an over , it needs force er and i it 's , it is a violent , y y you do n't , in order for the revolution to have been a success it , it needs to be |
| 8 | So it was with some trepidation that I put forward the idea of his leaping back into the West End , twenty years after he 'd gratefully left it . |
| 9 | Despite the two question marks that I put over the Bill , I believe that the Government are right to proceed with the reforms that it contains . |
| 10 | I asked Alan to fish the first drift , in order to settle down , and towards the end he suggested that I put up the dap . |
| 11 | N do n't know that I know just the whisky barrels they were , a little I believe there was maybe a name for them . |
| 12 | You want that I turn up the sound ? ’ |
| 13 | Malc was furious , especially when I admitted that I had n't the heart to charge the old dear , so we were two quid out of pocket . |
| 14 | The wood is alder and the deal is that I scaled down the body a little bit . |
| 15 | Alas , they had no high chairs for nine month old Daniel , and it was with a sinking heart that I picked up the menu , while trying to hold the baby and prevent toddler Michael from pulling off the tablecloth . |
| 16 | ‘ I can assure you , my dear Laura , that I have neither the inclination nor the energy to lay my hands on your fair body , ’ he drawled sardonically . |
| 17 | I can not bear even the most distant apprehension that I have not the preference with you of any man living . |
| 18 | Does my right hon. Friend know that I gave up the opportunity of becoming a solicitor like the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) because accountants put the losses on the right and the profits on the left ? |
| 19 | She looked me over , said I seemed to be a nice girl and announced that she had just the job for me — taking her goats out for a walk ! |
| 20 | More than once in cross-examination Miss Tucker said that she had since the police interview changed her statement , and had made ‘ a new one . ’ |
| 21 | By the end of the ceremony she was so upset that she had n't the nerve to go to the house with the small party of mourners , and caught a train straight back to London . |
| 22 | She would have loved to know what the erring Frau Gesner had done , but he had suddenly looked so stern , so sad , that she had n't the nerve to ask . |
| 23 | Yet , while she was finding him most difficult to forget , the realisation only then struck her that she knew neither the name of the garage that housed her car , nor the place where it was situated ! |
| 24 | She had a sneaking suspicion that she knew why the men had not given up their seats . |
| 25 | But Rita in her own department has got the document that she sends so the researcher does n't have to take the bit of paper round to everybody and get their research approval form signed . |
| 26 | Judy Bathurst studied art as a student at Leeds University , but it was not until ten years ago , when she went to live in Tuscany , that she found both the time and the inspiration to develop her talent . |
| 27 | After the first few months , George was insistent that she give up the market stall . |
| 28 | The Second Fairy brings Grace and dances slightly faster in such a way that she shows off the lines of her body as it faces forwards and then backwards ( the traditional gesture ) . |
| 29 | Less than 48 hours after the world No.1 had lifted her third French Open title , doctors in Paris revealed that she picked up the injury towards the end of her quarter-final win over Jennifer Capriati . |
| 30 | Julia compared the food of the two parties and decided unhappily that she liked both the dish-of-herbs meal of this evening and also the elaborate deliciousness of avocado mousse , sole and boeuf en croûte of the previous day . |