Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] that [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I was thinking where on earth is there a shop in that sells , sells things like that or do you have to go to a garage and I 'd forgotten that that fruit |
| 2 | As we began to talk I began to realize that these people were just like me . |
| 3 | But since the pain I have to experience to learn the concept is necessarily my pain , this explanation leads to our asking ourselves the question , ‘ What possible reason could I have to think that other people ever have what I mean by ‘ pain ’ ? ’ — a question which invites the answers , ‘ None ’ ( solipsism ) or , alternatively ‘ An argument from analogy ’ . |
| 4 | In its absence we would n't even be able to understand the question , ‘ What possible reason could I have to think that other people ever have what I mean by ‘ pain ’ ? , let alone the answers that have been given to it . |
| 5 | ( Single woman living with her unmarried brother and their very frail elderly mother ) I do think that disabled people , unless they 've had a big cash payment through an accident [ compensation ] … they do n't get enough to live on … |
| 6 | I do find that most people who come out here on short contracts are only looking for a paid holiday . |
| 7 | I do understand that many people think wild animals roam over very large spaces and therefore feel cramped if they are kept in restricted areas but most have territories , areas which they mark out for themselves in various ways , and spend all their time inside these territories anyway and consequently they can consider their enclosure as being their own territory . |
| 8 | I do understand that some people with my condition have to take goodness knows how many tablets of one sort or another each and every day , so I suppose I am fortunate . |
| 9 | I 've noticed that most people over the age of forty whinge like a chainsaw about their memory not being as good as it used to be , or not being as good as they wish it were . |
| 10 | In only the last two years I 've noticed that more people are being drawn to the hills in Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | Mr Jarvis , who first gained the attention of Mrs Major through his readings of the Richmal Crompton 's William stories , says : ‘ The BBC have been after me to record some more William stories but I have decided that one series a year is quite enough . |
| 12 | Although this example takes the point to an extreme , I have noticed that many people mistakenly use flowers that are so big that there' is barely room for them in the frame , and therefore the finished miniature is not as full of detail , nor as interesting , as a larger picture would be . |
| 13 | I have observed that this species can breed at sizes of little more than 1″ , but I have only seen this happen where a larger adult in my colony has died and been replaced by a young fish . |
| 14 | I have found that most people have no idea how they behave in a group , and are upset when they watch their behaviour in groups on video replays . |
| 15 | I have suggested that many people believe that there is a valid way of life argument against closing any rural primary school . |
| 16 | Were n't you going to ask were n't you going to suggest that three people choose this ? |
| 17 | But we do know that some people have done within Tarmac . |
| 18 | We had observed that older people in the area seemed to die like flies in the winter from heart attacks and cold-related illnesses and we were confident that it was the inside of our houses that were killing them , not the outside . |
| 19 | We have seen that most people with IBS do not consult doctors and those who do may have reasons other than the symptoms themselves . |
| 20 | However , we have shown that 600 mg of infused unfractionated gliadin produced significant changes in the crypt/villus ratio and epithelial cell height , with a doublingof the intraepithelial lymphocyte count within four hours of the challenge . |
| 21 | While we have to accept that some people have had a good go at blowing up the present inhabitant , would it not be simpler for her to emulate a previous incumbent and move up the road to Admiralty House ? |
| 22 | Of course there are naturally occurring fish which are monochrome orange , white or yellow — in the African Rift Lakes , for example — and we have to assume that these fish gain some advantage , and certainly no disadvantage , from their coloration . |
| 23 | We need to ensure that these people get some form of equal right , equal right with a s simple contract . |
| 24 | They tend to deny that older people may have issues and agendas that they may wish to discuss , and they ignore the fact that many older people have the ability and interest to organize matters for themselves . |
| 25 | Moreover , while they do show that official statistics tend to underestimate the amount of crime , it is likely that victim studies also under-record the amount — mostly because people can only report having been victims of crime if they know that they have been victimised . |
| 26 | these figures do not show that black people are more prone crime , but they do suggest that black people who offend are more likely to go to prison . |
| 27 | He has found that unemployed people are eleven times more likely to commit suicide than those in work . |
| 28 | Already , in 1835 , he had concluded that several species of large mammals , formerly flourishing on the eastern plains of South America , had later become extinct while no change in conditions physical or ecological had occurred . |
| 29 | I once heard a very distinguished palaeontologist argue that the base of the Devonian was obviously at one particular level because he had shown that one species of trilobite changed at that horizon into another . |
| 30 | ‘ But it does mean that some people have to wait as much as three hours . |