Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was probably this occasion which prompted Lloyd George to write of Balfour : ‘ I confess that I underrated the passionate attachment to his country which burnt under that calm , indifferent , and apparently frigid exterior ’ ; upon which Balfour 's latest biographer has somewhat severely commented : ‘ By ‘ passionate attachment to his country , ’ Lloyd George , presumably meant Balfour 's backing for him as Prime Minister … ’
2 Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night .
3 It was , especially , upon retiring to bed late in the night of the seventh or eighth day after the placing of the Lady Madeline within the donjon , that I experienced the full power of such feelings .
4 I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way .
5 For I have not bothered to tell her that I spotted the blasted thing on our drive back from Bournemouth to London , lurking in a lay-by .
6 I was so angry that I wrote a furious letter to him accusing him of being un-Christian and ignorant , and also wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury , whom I also regard as ineffectual .
7 Last year , so piqued was I by this , that I plunged the outsize handbag of an excessively bossy senior stewardess from Central Office into a fire-bucket of water on the grounds that it could have contained an incendiary device .
8 It 's just that I prefer the other rooms . ’
9 I admit that I prefer the longer film , but that may be because I saw it first .
10 During my time as a gamekeeper it was essential that I knew the precise location of all these extended burrows .
11 It was not until I reached Redcar that I saw a Northern Echo placard lettered Death of King .
12 then I had another I had another wee problem that I 'd been , I had been to see , and it was Doctor I had been , and the doctor that I saw the last time er I had three big bruises on my back , and she
13 I know it 's a bit of tenuous link but there we are — other than that I 've no great claims to knowing any Leeds players
14 Tell her that I hope the next time I come to stay she wo n't have such a huge fire in the Blue Room . ’
15 For example , how does it happen that I married a good Catholic at seventeen and here I am at thirty-something , childless ?
16 It was only when telling someone about the finale , weeks later , that I realized the unconscious pun of ‘ Sayer Little Prayer ’ and he washed over me all over again .
17 When filling small cracks , I 've found that I get a smooth finish , which requires little or no sanding , of I roll over the crack with a paint roller a few times , while the filler is still damp . , .
18 I could not be bled and have been dealt more than a hundred blows so that I got a thorough grinding . )
19 But it 's still the same , but it 's the pains that I got the last time that 's gon it 's like sharp pains that 's going round about , just the insides of the nipple .
20 I am sure that the Minister will recall that I said a few moments ago that in our view the role of regional government is not delivery of services .
21 ‘ I 've been on 10 or 11 tours in my career and it 's time that I spent a little while with my family .
22 May I , through the pages of your fine Journal , categorically state that I remain a fervent supporter of English rugby and am particularly proud of the superb performance by the Stevens Team , who have just become World champions .
23 Looking back on the elements I have enumerated — of change , internationalism and achievement — I do not find it so surprising that I chose an industrial career , although I knew nothing of all this when I joined ICI .
24 He was on his way home — characteristically late , I realize , now that I keep the same office hours from the back blocks of the building where I am now sitting .
25 No-one else in our aircraft appeared to be the least bit concerned , but my relief as we finally drew near the coast of England again and then began our descent to the safety of solid earth was so great that I made a little promise to myself that I would never again set foot in an aeroplane , so long as I could be permitted to survive this one trip .
26 at this stage that I made the unconscious decision , later to manifest itself in physiological terms , to postpone sexuality until I felt myself ready to cope with it .
27 My story is similar to Annie 's in that I made the same mistake and thought of my granddaughter as a substitute child .
28 Point two is this , that I made the bottom border there er about be exactly five centimetres .
29 ‘ It is necessary for business purposes that I speak the major languages of Europe .
30 ‘ Then I found out that I came a poor second to the real love of her life — money .
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