Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One test , for example , that I suggested to you last week which would have surprised Freud , is by contention the children who were overwhelmed with parental investment , particularly by perhaps the parent of the opposite sex , should n't show much oedipal behaviour . |
| 2 | Of course , you are likely to get some people who say that they thought of it first . |
| 3 | When crossing by boat from West Loch Tarbert to Port Ellen on one of my early Journeys to Islay I was talking with an elderly minister who was coming to visit a crofter brother who was ill , and during our conversation said that it appeared to me that for a small island with a population of about four thousand it had produced an unusually large proportion of ministers , ship captains , marine engineers and doctors and asked him why he thought that was so . |
| 4 | Will the Minister cast his mind back to the letter that he wrote to me last October — a soothing reply to the representations that I had made to him — pointing out that the Salford careers service , which covers my constituency , had forecast a shortfall of between 400 and 450 YTS places ? |
| 5 | Nigel was sufficiently worried about my feeble attempts towards the top of the ascent that he got below me each time I had to turn and pushed me forward into the slope . |
| 6 | The sun exploded into whiteness and the muddy grass turned to sand so fine that he sank in it ankle-deep as he ran . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're not suggesting that what happened to me this morning was attempted murder , are you ? |