Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [be] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A week later I was called back to Downing Street by Margaret Thatcher and told that I was taking over the Department of Health and Social Security and also the question-and-answer session . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 3 | The Princess of Wales has announced that she is to cut dramatically the number of public duties she performs . |
| 4 | Or she will write to say that she is giving up the family house and moving away . |
| 5 | Then she heard Christ speaking to her , saying that she would have victory over all her enemies , and that she was to give up the hair-cloth that she wore and her continual saying of the Rosary , but must stop eating meat . |
| 6 | Once , it had seemed that the candle of her life would burn only till Christmas , and that it was towards that single point that she was spinning out the last hours of her life . |
| 7 | The sound indicated that she was coming down the mast . |
| 8 | Mrs Richards pretended to sleep , but Shelley could tell by the tightly closed eyes and the hard lines at the corners of her mouth that she was shutting out the world because it was hurting again . |
| 9 | You 've just been told that you are to take over the job of manager for O A Z Company Limited . |
| 10 | In other words , that we 're spreading out the costs and the charges amongst the people that actually use the services , the road , the school , the particular asset that we erm , would be funding . |
| 11 | Make a comment on stage even , for Christ 's sake , about how sad it is that we 're staring down the barrel of a gun at a fuck of a lot of young corpses , widowed wives and fatherless children ? |
| 12 | Make a comment on stage even , for Christ 's sake , about how sad it is that we 're staring down the barrel of a gun at a fuck of a lot of young corpses , widowed wives and fatherless children ? |
| 13 | I do hope you 're feeling better , and that they 're sorting out the right combination of drugs this time . |
| 14 | Convex Computer Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday said that they are hotting up the alliance that saw Hewlett take a 5% stake in Convex last year with a potentially substantial technology exchange to plug the massively parallel applications gap . |
| 15 | The rumour was that they were to give up the siege and have their contracts revoked before Christmas . |
| 16 | Conservationists criticized the Spanish authorities for failing to take sufficient measures to rescue oiled seabirds , and suggested that they were covering up the extent of the damage . |
| 17 | She was fanning her cheeks desultorily when she realised with a start that they were pulling off the road and Niall was bringing the car to a halt . |
| 18 | Politically it was the awakening of these groups which was most important , for as Professor Christie has concluded : |
| 19 | One view of the overall employment implications of new technology is that it is bringing about the collapse of work . |
| 20 | If the vehicle has an electrically powered antenna , arrangements should be made to ensure that it is raised whenever the vehicle is moving — with an over-ride switch allowing the driver to avoid damage when entering a garage or car park . |
| 21 | On 26th May , Hunt came to see him and said that he was taking over the purchase negotiations for the Downing Street scheme , and particularly upset Pennethorne by producing one of Pennethorne 's drawings to assist him in the work . |
| 22 | Mike rang the solicitor up yesterday and he said that he was sending out the contracts to us |
| 23 | Abruptly she looked away from him , painfully aware that he was speaking only the truth . |
| 24 | That he was speaking only the truth simply served to infuriate her all the more . |
| 25 | At the height of the heatwave , with Hurley in Washington , Coleman finally had to notify the embassy that he was closing down the listening post and moving into the hotel across the street to save the equipment as well as the family from overheating . |
| 26 | After many months of careful observation he realized that he was doing exactly the same thing while talking , but to a much lesser extent , and that was why his speaking habits had gone undetected . |