Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only after we had left , and were returning home that I realised what a good feeling it was to have helped someone in pain . |
| 2 | ‘ It was then that I realised what a lovely person he was , ’ says Avril . |
| 3 | No , you do n't : for the simple reason that I suppressed it a few pages ago . |
| 4 | Tall , tanned , golden hair , and those blue eyes so full of honesty and humour that I thought him a warm , generous man . |
| 5 | Because we made love , because I 'm physically attracted to you , it does n't mean that I owe you an involved explanation of my private life . ’ |
| 6 | And so it went on in what was styled — even in the ranks — as the Baldwin Air Force , and it was in this environment that I found myself a mere fragment within a daily expanding Air Force . |
| 7 | He spoke already in terms of collaboration — ‘ I sent you a few studies because you can see from them that she helps me a great deal by posing . |
| 8 | The only difference her success made was that she thought her an incompetent fool who was lucky enough to make a bit of money . ’ |
| 9 | But she looked back to her own childhood and wondered where she had got the idea that she knew what a normal family would be like . |
| 10 | Anne felt that she considered her a green fool , and Mabel was indignant that Hetty was very ready to accept the ‘ perks ’ of the job , such as the cakes and bread given to the staff by Mrs Dyson , and the extra money from Mr Dyson , but was always on the alert for any infringement of her rights . |
| 11 | I 'm glad there 's somebody 's come up with that one because that 's the only time that you say something a little bit different from the number itself . |
| 12 | So when you 're planning your retirement , make sure that you give yourself a reasonable standard of living in terms of income . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've won , Leo , ’ she managed quietly , ‘ and I hope with all my heart that you find it a pyrrhic victory . ’ |
| 14 | They have asked that we give them a similar quantity from each department . |
| 15 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
| 16 | There is a story that they bet him a substantial sum that he could not read a certain number of books of the Bible without talking . |
| 17 | As long as you can show that they owed you a legal duty to be careful and have been negligent , damages could come your way . |
| 18 | But while the large number of coins means that they give us a large quantity of information , their small size and the consequent brevity of their inscriptions greatly restricts the level of interpretation we can make from them compared with , say , a lengthy edict of a Roman emperor fully inscribed on stone . |
| 19 | The fact that they reserved me a front row seat in the Big Top of their felicity did assist in throttling back the glooms . |
| 20 | EPC 's expertise brings significant benefits to its members in the water and process industries , and the club 's continuing expansion indicates that they find it a cost-effective extension of in-house resources , as well as a focal point for keeping abreast of developments in the field of effluent treatment . |
| 21 | and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent . |
| 22 | The sea was such a mess that it took him a few moments to be sure of the reef . |
| 23 | Two , our institute has its own hall and as this is now about seventy years old and was not particularly well built in the first place , you will understand that it costs us a good deal in money and effort to literally keep the roof over our heads . |
| 24 | I 've told you that it gives me a terrific edge in any sale where Kemp 's a bidder . |
| 25 | The only trouble is that it gives me an American accent . |
| 26 | The definition is adopted , of course , not merely for the reason that it gives us a further explanation of the difference between causal items and their effects . |
| 27 | I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world . |
| 28 | Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes . |
| 29 | It was touching to me to see how she would sometimes act helpless because she loved him being , as he often was , masterful with her , as well as tender ; and for his part it was easy to see that he thought her a wonderful woman and admired every inch of her . |
| 30 | These days she was glad of any invitation to proximity , and curled up beside him so promptly that he gave her an amused sidelong glance as he took her hand in his . |