Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrie was very pleased to see the change in her father now that he had settled into his new job , but she still fretted over her parents , and she had not forgotten her vow that one day she would have enough money to buy them a decent house to live in . |
| 2 | It was beautiful , and somehow the knowledge that she loved his home made her slam that emotional door even more ruthlessly , turning blindly from her true feelings to hate him more . |
| 3 | Pete Waterman had once promised his prodigy that one day he would transform her into the Madonna . |
| 4 | Has it escaped their notice that last Thursday was the first really warm and sunny day of the year ? |
| 5 | Daniel had in fact imagined all these , and had also adequately encompassed her relief that small talk and eating were proceeding . |
| 6 | It may have escaped his notice that that text was removed from the negotiations about two months ago . |
| 7 | I have noted your suggestion that further housing land should be allocated at Aberlady . |
| 8 | Three of the studies in which she has been involved — that described here , a follow-up of normal young black men , and a follow-up of Vietnam veterans — have supported her contention that deviant behaviour of various types in childhood or adolescence forms a syndrome which tends to continue in about half the cases to adulthood . |
| 9 | THE chairman of a committee which aims to set up a unit in Darlington for leukaemia sufferers has renewed her pledge that all money raised will be spent as originally intended . |
| 10 | And although they shared I.A. Richards 's impatience with the existing chaos of critical theories , and his desire for some scientific order in the study of literature , they would certainly not have endorsed his view that literary theory should be concerned with experience or with value ; nor would they have approved of his recourse to neuro-physiology or psychology as a means of making literary criticism more scientific . |