Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] in the [noun sg] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 2 | He found it in the fact that the State , ‘ united for once in spirit ’ and ‘ with the fervent consent of the people of every land subject to the rule of our King ’ had entered on an arduous conflict , not for territory or glory but ‘ for the sake of enforcing the plainest rules of international justice and the plainest dictates of common humanity ’ . |
| 3 | Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters . |
| 4 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 5 | ‘ I played it in the house that I was telling you about . ’ |
| 6 | The poem is remarkable for its Gothic horrors and its energy , for example : This is not a ‘ Wordsworthian ’ view of Nature , but it helps to explain what the poet meant when he told us in The Prelude that he was haunted by mysterious ‘ presences ’ during childhood and youth ; The Vale of Esthwaite anticipates The Prelude in other ways — the interest is in the mind of the poet , and the effect of the imagination on landscape . |
| 7 | In low politics , common opinion — no less common for being expensively hired by Conservative Central Office — encouraged him in the belief that he should fight much of the election sitting down . |
| 8 | The other motivation for European Union came from the newly-freed countries of Central Europe themselves , who favoured it in the knowledge that only a strong Community , closely knit in a European Union , would have the resources and united will to assist them towards eventual EC membership . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , for so many reasons — because friends supported me in the faith that we would end up together . |
| 10 | Mrs Wright put it in the vase that she 'd filled with fresh water . |