Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Don Bennett had always publicly — and to my embarrassment — told anyone who would listen , that I recruited 16,000 Pathfinders for our heavy bomber squadrons and the mosquitos of the Light Night Striking Force . |
| 2 | When I tell them that I spent 17 years in local government , they tell me that I was a masochist . |
| 3 | When I tell people that I spent 10 years in the European Parliament , they tell me that I was a hedonist . |
| 4 | ‘ I worked on various things , but the reason I 'm here is that I spent five years with SimFic working on artificial intelligence . ’ |
| 5 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 6 | Before leaving the village I consulted a chart outside the coastguard station , which confirmed that I had five hours before high tide ; this would give me time to get to the end of Worm 's Head and safely back onto the cliffs without danger of being stranded . |
| 7 | Oh yes indeed , indeed , well only last week I said do need some flowers , come on Thursday they 're fresh , I said I want them now Lionel , I hate to be without flowers in the room and he said well have two for the price of one , he would insist that I had two bunches for the price of one . |
| 8 | Erm , I erm , employ people , so I decided to have an employment section , six months later when I was reviewing the daytimer , I discovered that I had one sheet in my employment section , er , about a lady I had interviewed and not employed , whereas I had a prospect section that was overflowing , and needed drastic sub-division . |
| 9 | I 'm defiantly proud to point out that I did thirteen drafts of Wanda and that I 've been writing comedy professionally since ‘ 63 , so by the time I was writing Wanda it was 24 years . |
| 10 | The only difference with you is that I used two grains of gunpowder and no oil . |
| 11 | Yeah , but you say that I paid thirty pounds for the Astra , now let's get it in the balance here , you see what I mean , and that sen and then |
| 12 | I said the thing is that I pay sixty pence for five well I said it costs me another sixty pence to come and change them ! |
| 13 | It is here , in fact , that I have one reservation about Beverle Houston 's article , around her use of the term , ‘ desire ’ , and its place in the formation of the television subject . |
| 14 | Before that I worked fifteen years for a international bank . |
| 15 | In the reign of Canute , an aristocratic woman called Godiva attending a vigil of prayer to St Etheldreda in Ely , was so kindled in her love towards the Ely monks , because of the ‘ beauty of the place and of their devotion ’ , that she granted three estates to the monastery . |
| 16 | He noticed that she had one button of her blouse more than usual undone . |
| 17 | His grandmother , the Countess of Airlie , was such a close friend of the Queen 's grandmother , Queen Mary , that she spent fifty years as a lady-in-waiting . |
| 18 | Dalgliesh remembered her whispered confidence to Theresa in the car , the child 's intent face and brief transforming smile , and thought that she understood one child at least far better than she would probably claim . |
| 19 | Compared Janet NcCalman alledged charmer and being questioned as to her using of charms confessed that she used one charm for Causing Cows bull ( called eelis dhair ) which she practices by expressing some words over water and that she gave it particularly to one NcAbhrionid in Balulise . |
| 20 | Compared Janet NcCalman alledged charmer and being questioned as to her using of charms confessed that she used one charm for Causing Cows bull ( called eelis dhair ) which she practices by expressing some words over water and that she gave it particularly to one NcAbhrionid in Balulise . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's right , ’ said Mildred , ‘ and I heard tell that she changed one girl into a frog because she was two seconds late for a lesson . |
| 22 | You 've just said that you took one look at Lotta and wanted her without knowing a thing about her , and now you 're telling me exactly the same thing . |
| 23 | And I hope and pray that you wake one day in |
| 24 | If the new work is given to you in a lecture , you can assume that you require two hours of study for each hour of lecture — for reading of the subject before the lecture , and as a first review ( " within the first 24 hours ) . |
| 25 | Instead , try cutting down on the number of exercises , increasing the weight and making sure that you perform 3 sets of at least 8 reps . |
| 26 | ‘ You made it abundantly clear that you have one hell of a good social life at home . |
| 27 | And then this York paving stone theme would be also in a strip all the way round the perimeter of the existing marketplace , and so that you have two areas of , of natural York paving stone , high quality paving . |
| 28 | THE words , written on Holloway Prison paper , are simple but poignant : ‘ We both have to say that you have two daughters to be very proud of . |
| 29 | You can recharge it overnight , and then travel , secure in the knowledge that you have 40 minutes of brushing time available . |
| 30 | It is at the conferences of Labour , the party that killed the grammar schools , that you see one fruit of that enlightened policy , which is that many of the younger delegates are incoherently illiterate . |