Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bad news is that the good news made me feel so relieved and excited that I ran out to a bar and drank a bunch of big ones . |
| 2 | I wanted to check on the landing patch that I keep there on a semi-permanent lease . |
| 3 | And indeed it 's a sign of the times that I speak not with a mitre metaphorically upon my head but perhaps the glengarry of the convenorship of the Central Council of ACTS and therefore I am in part your servant here . |
| 4 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
| 5 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 6 | And much as I coveted a wonderful watercolour by Albert that I came across in an Alice Springs gallery for 4,000 dollars I was even more taken with the traditional native art , particularly since it seemed to offer useful hints about a problem I had of seeing the outback in ways other than through the window-on-the-world vision that developed in Renaissance Italy . |
| 7 | That I came out of an egg . ’ |
| 8 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 9 | There were , of course , the inevitable forms to fill in and letters of condolence to answer , but I realized that I had not for a moment , since before the previous Christmas , given a thought to the prospect of life for one . |
| 10 | The café itself is so crowded with smoke that I sit outside on a bench . |
| 11 | If you do your environmental recycling I 've got a thing that I took out of a magazine that 's got all the addresses of erm of of the various thing for recycling paper |
| 12 | I 've already revealed that I started out in a donkey jacket , but I should add that it took me at least ten years to get a decent kit . |
| 13 | ‘ It was important that I moved on to a bigger stage , with a club in the top bracket of the English First Division , or Celtic and Rangers . ’ |
| 14 | But on the other hand , the bibliography for the Tate catalogue required that I look back at a lot of old notices and I find that my perception was not at all valid . |
| 15 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 16 | Yeah yeah yeah I had a shilling pocket money and out of that I saved up for a bike . |
| 17 | The son of a Jat farmer outside Delhi , by the age of thirteen she was already refusing to work in the fields , saying that she felt more like a woman than a man . |
| 18 | He had such a nice voice that she looked up with a smile , expecting to see a nice , kind face to match . |
| 19 | The truth of the matter was that she relied heavily on an assistant at work and a private nurse at home . |
| 20 | And so it was that she died alone in a mental hospital — as Eliot told Violet Schiff , one of the few who had known them both from their earliest days together , death could only have been a deliverance for her . |
| 21 | She was well aware that she purred inside like a cat if he even looked at her and the whole thing filled her with amazement . |
| 22 | It meant that she started off at an advantage , for as soon as they imagined they had caused her misery they found that they were only confirming her grim and ribald idea of the way things would always be . |
| 23 | In Sargent [ 1990 ] The Guardian , 3 July , Boreham J at Leeds Crown Court is reported as saying : " You were so negligent as to be reckless as to this woman 's welfare " , by pumping so much oxygen into her during an operation that she swelled up like a Michelin man . |
| 24 | It seemed that she stood there for an age before Nicky said , ‘ A cup of tea would be rather nice . ’ |
| 25 | One claim guaranteed to draw fire from Kylie is that she missed out on a childhood because of showbiz . |
| 26 | A driving curtain of rain blotted out everything other than the sodden turf nearest the house , the view so depressing that she turned away with a shiver , drawn like a magnet to the books on the shelves . |
| 27 | And this is of course , as if I agree with the view that you expressed yesterday in a general context , although it was made specifically then in relation to one village , any recommendation I make in relation to that village , if it is based on the general principle , must apply by analogy also to Skelton , and I would have little choice but to recommend to the councils that they may wish or indeed they should , reconsider this question of washing-over or insetting elsewhere . |
| 28 | We can bring you back at home or if they insist that you go back in an ambulance , you may , they may not put you back home you know , have you thought of that ? |
| 29 | He said : ‘ These are not 500 bananas that you pick up in a supermarket and put in your basket and take somewhere else . |
| 30 | you ca n't get the , the tax benefit that you got originally with an endowment . |