Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , ’ she replied tersely , ‘ I 'll make sure that I draw up a balance sheet next time . |
| 2 | I told you in another part of this saga of mine that I took over a Night in No 7 Squadron from a Flight Commander . |
| 3 | The woman was so surprised that she fell back a step . |
| 4 | The family recorded an anxious moment during the visit when the King lifted five-year-old Catherine Drummond in his arms and put her ‘ upon the Table which so much alarmed her that she burst out a crying . ’ |
| 5 | But of course he was right about the trouser bit because Nan had a gay disposition and a very pretty face ; what he would n't admit to was that she brought in a lot of custom at the week-end , especially when there was a boat in and some of the sailors would make their way up from the quayside and spend freely on chocolate or toffee for their girls . |
| 6 | The Moon was so angry with the hare 's evasions that she picked up a hatchet to chop off his head , but missed her aim and cut the hare on the mouth . |
| 7 | But you need to be careful that you set up a scheme that actually works , and it would be sensible to take professional advice to avoid making a mistake in its tax or National Insurance implications . |
| 8 | This is analogous to a script language or batch file , in that you set up a file transfer transaction which can be repeated every day , short-cutting the need to highlight and copy individual files . |
| 9 | When you ring , Butlin 's will make a provisional booking and request that you send in a booking form , available in a Butlin 's Holiday Worlds brochure . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend might be interested to know that we sent out a questionnaire to 5,293 people who volunteered for redundancy and 76 per cent . |
| 11 | Actually just just quickly er I just noticed on that list of your questionnaires that we got back a couple that they did n't actually know what was going on . |
| 12 | That we try out a petition throughout all the centre 's in the town . |
| 13 | The sole result was that they brought back a hatred of all Europeans , except the Germans , whose courage they admired . |
| 14 | Therefore a physical interpretation of vector components is that they make up a tangent . |
| 15 | There were so many journalists covering the Orkney story that they set up a pool system and took it in turns to go in . |
| 16 | The second , and by no means less important , purpose , is that they open up a transmission channel for information from the recipient . |
| 17 | Nye derived equations for glacier flow assuming that ice is a perfectly plastic substance , that it flows down a valley of constant slope , and that the conditions of temperature , accumulation and ablation are simple and uniform , and his model could be compared with field observations . |
| 18 | The holes are formed by transferring one stitch to the next needle to the right or left , leaving the empty needle in working position so that it picks up a stitch on the following row . |
| 19 | One eye shifts right round the body so that it takes up a position alongside the other . |
| 20 | The human mind is usually so active that it sets off a number of ‘ what if ? ’ speculations and ‘ is that really so ? ’ evaluations under the stimulation of the text . |
| 21 | He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs : |
| 22 | Tories aching for fizz have to accept the meat and two veg reality ; and they may remember that , in the fable , Jupiter grew so tired of the frogs complaining about their uninspiring King Log that he sent down a replacement , King Stork , who ate them all . |
| 23 | Charles 's territories could already have been described as an empire , in the sense that he ruled over a collection of different political units held together by the allegiance his subjects felt they owed him rather than through a sense of common institutions or common language which could serve as the foundation for a unifying national spirit . |
| 24 | If Philip Leapor 's mother was indeed the woman who died in 1726 , it is reasonable to believe that he took over a house which she had occupied , and leased a separate piece of ground for his nursery . |
| 25 | One of the best descriptions of the landscape of Madeira is that given by White and Johnson ( Madeira. : Its Climate and Scenery , 1860 ) : ‘ When Columbus was asked by Queen Isabella to give her some notion of the configuration of Jamaica , it is said that he took up a sheet of paper , and after crushing it in his hand , partly opened it out ; then placing it on the table , he told her Majesty that she would derive a better idea of the island from the crumpled paper than from any description conveyed in words . |
| 26 | It 's a problem that so enraged Martin Cutts of Words at Work that he took up a challenge to rewrite one . |
| 27 | Mr Marsh was so incensed by the attempted prosecution that he took out a summons to obtain his costs , and yesterday at a brief hearing in the High Court the Attorney General agreed to pay his costs and not to take any further action on the matter . |
| 28 | The 16th-century ruins of Knock Castle , 2 miles away , have a murky past — all the sons of the Laird were murdered by a neighbouring Forbes of Strath girnock ; when the Laird was informed he was so overcome by grief that he fell down a staircase to his death . |
| 29 | Roebuck was very interested in Watt 's invention and suggested that he take out a patent for it . |
| 30 | In fact it was at this time just as the United States was beginning to take up his Girls that he set up a school there . |