Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It was not so much of a stretch for me to do that role as people might think , ’ Dustin explained .
2 But a small part of her cried that Ace seemed to have lost all sense of kindness and decency as far as she was concerned .
3 In return for us putting that money into the scheme er straight away er as Paul said the council will be agreeing to , to make us priority for handling corporation funding and if that 's not successful er to use your reasonable endeavours to try and find the remainder of the scheme yourselves .
4 There had been no need for her to write that letter .
5 Although you may select a borrowing limit of £3,000 , for example , there is no compulsion for you to withdraw that amount at once , or at all — you take out just as much as you want .
6 ‘ When I saw death coming towards me I began to think it had been a bad business for me to kill that guy . ’
7 Since the perestroika process began , the Soviet economy has followed a steady course downwards , and there seems no prospect at the moment of it reversing that process .
8 None of the rest of us had that kind of head . ’
9 What was the object , I know we discussed it at great length , but what was the object of it going that way in the first place ?
10 So in fact there 's still an endowment policy on you to cover that mortgage ?
11 But if I 'm moving around slightly like this and you 're having to follow with your eyes as I 'm making my presentation it brings variety to it brings that bit of variety like you said earlier that it brings some interest to it .
12 It will be seen that where Lautro is advised to serve or is considering the service of an intervention notice on a member , the rules do not place any obligation on it to give that member any advance warning of the intended action , nor to give him any opportunity to make representations before the intervention notice is served .
13 If he considers an authority 's budget excessive — or , indeed , considers it an excessive increase on the previous year 's budget — that is sufficient reason for him to cap that authority .
14 For example , I mean , if a tutor , say , has been sexually harassing a young woman , and she puts in a complain of any kind or something like that , and then he puts pressure on her to withdraw that complaint and she does , I mean does the college at that stage stay well okay if she 's not going to complain then we wo n't do anything , thereby letting the harassment go ahead , or does the college say even though she does n't want to complain we 're nevertheless going to go ahead .
15 It simply it simply does n't serve a purpose for me to allow that division to open up .
16 You know could be I 'll I 'll a large part of it may I do n't know whether all of it but a large part of it will be here 's the English for you know that sort of thing .
17 He asked me why and I said I was reading a book called My Early Life by Winston Churchill and that I would want any son of mine to live that life .
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