Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For too long , says Ward , we have persisted in the Henry Ford myth that only a genetically privileged few can do joined-up thinking , and the rest are fit for manual tasks so simplified that they produce that brand of mind-numbing tedium which is the most fertile soil for industrial unrest . |
| 2 | The issue was resolved when they agreed that filming should continue . |
| 3 | They 've decided that you need that number of weeks holiday , then that 's what you should be taking . |
| 4 | It has n't actually done cos I put that funnel on the end to stop it from doing it . |
| 5 | ‘ Strangeways , here we come ! ’ quipped Morrissey every day to his workmates — probably — quoting , of course , the famous line uttered by Barry Grant in Brookside five years later , which Morrissey could have seen if he videoed that episode while The Smiths were on tour . |
| 6 | That is what the governor of that offenders centre had to say , and I should be very interested to know what the Minister of State has done since she read that report in the newspaper . |
| 7 | After all , don' forget Brett wuz handicapped by bein' injured before they fought that night . ’ |
| 8 | Charlie 's office was small and poky and lightless and overcrowded , but the number of possible hiding places was limited and it seemed that she-d tried them all . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm buggered if I understand that Army of yours . ’ |
| 10 | When Miss P said this to him Boy realised that he could n't actually imagine a man proposing something that he would n't want to do , or would n't at least want to try just once , but he understood what he was being told and he learnt that lesson well , thank God . |
| 11 | For one thing , you 're not the only one who 'll be affected if I give that story about the poison pen letter to the press . |
| 12 | If the Prince of Wales had not stood up and spoken as he did that day , the government might have remained entrenched on the subject for considerably longer than it was . |
| 13 | I was crushed when they lost that election . ’ |