Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the figures excluded urgent treatment cases and Darlington GPs had said to him that such cases could be dealt with in a matter of days . |
| 2 | He might have said to her that some time in the middle of the nineteenth century a cult had grown up around the idea of the home . |
| 3 | Had the man who wrote the foreword been at No. 10 in those days he would doubtless have seen to it that this cricketer who displayed such honourable patriotism and high personal standards was given some decoration or other . |
| 4 | Shakespeare evidently shared Donne 's dissatisfaction with the extant convention , agreed with him that unfulfilled love was a trope that could only lead to a limited number of stereotyped situations . |
| 5 | It had occurred to her that most products came in a variety of sizes and offered a wide choice , but she felt the cosmetic trade was too dictatorial about what the customer should buy . |
| 6 | It has n't occurred to them that some people might actually have to survive on any money they 're given . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Has it occurred to you that this Morris fellow and my brother were in this thing together ? ’ he said softly . |
| 8 | There is neither Jewish nor Gentile bias in this chronicler of the Holy Spirit 's initiative in mission throughout the world , though his application of the famous ‘ blinding ’ passage of Isaiah 6 to Jewish leaders who refused to receive their Messiah , and his assertion , ‘ Be it known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the gentiles : they will listen ’ ( 28:25–28 ) , is suggestive of the direction in which the Christian mission would , for the most part , go . |
| 9 | It has yet to be proved to me that these men out of the dingy side-streets ever did anything better with their free time and their shillings . ’ |
| 10 | It was once explained to me that most Asians in Yorkshire do not play cricket anyway , but that those who did were genuinely encouraged to join Yorkshire League clubs . |
| 11 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
| 12 | and if it was forced upon them that this land 's going to have to be put into a , a kind of block |
| 13 | On the one hand , the media screamed at her that romantic love was like an oasis in the desert ; it would solve all her problems , and she would live happily ever after . |
| 14 | I hated the growing fear my father ( and we ) shared during his illness , that he would mess the bed , and once suggested to him that all families should be required once a month to show each other the contents of their potties . |
| 15 | Some of my colleagues have suggested to me that this account of the survival value of the god meme begs the question . |