Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] that [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As things turned out , it was probably just as well that I was brought gently back to earth by Beryl , who from one of the Trust 's head offices masterminds the working holidays with military precision , advised me that the only available option was a 21-plus Acorn Project at Clumber park in Nottinghamshire . |
| 2 | The idea for this book began in the back of a taxi , the night a friend told me that a famous Scottish football manager had enjoyed rampant sex in a television studio with a well known TV presenter . |
| 3 | One of those accused told me that a proper legal defence cost him only £140.00 with legal aid , which he got back because they won . |
| 4 | I had arranged to meet them at Salima 's house , but when I got there she told me that the other two were at Ruksana 's place . |
| 5 | The other women in the cast were students , and Poole told me that the other four soldiers were part-time dancers ‘ who came in the evenings from their offices ’ . |
| 6 | Directory Enquiries told me that the British Humanist Association lived in Prince of Wales Terrace , in Kensington . |
| 7 | Thus in 1296 he consulted his council of magnates who advised him that a certain papal provision would prejudice the crown ; and in 1299 he contested the pope 's claim to sovereignty over Scotland as a threat to the dignity of his crown . |
| 8 | Her new sense of time told her that a scant three minutes had passed since landing . |
| 9 | ‘ They also informed me that the new Social Fund computer system , to be introduced in 1993 , would automatically perform these transfers . ’ |
| 10 | Although it struck him as being perfectly right and natural to tear a seven-year-old boy away from his parents and send him ‘ home ’ to be educated , it also struck him that the English public school system was iniquitous , a hotbed of beatings and buggery . |
| 11 | He did not as yet know all the details of how they had died , and what had gone before , but rumour had it that no great physical strength had been involved so that you could not rule out a woman as the killer . |