Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dogs follow the trail , so there is no problem , but it does mean that I miss seeing the sudden three metre drop that we go down to reach a frozen river . |
| 2 | Such was my astonishment that I stopped kicking the offending mouse and at the first opportunity went to look at the hedgerow . |
| 3 | Added to that , there was something about the Wartberg works that I found soothing the first time I went there for the interview . |
| 4 | Better said , what I think is what I have thought , or that is to say , that I continue thinking the same . ’ |
| 5 | For Laura , work had now become an end in itself ; although some of her colleagues began to describe her as a workaholic it was more that she found working a pleasurable state . |
| 6 | Gladys Hill writes ( aged nearly 96 ) that she enjoys reading a wide range of subjects and appreciates having some of the books from her days at Oxford . |
| 7 | and after just that they kept sending the wrong pieces , I mean , like they , they sent another piece to replace it , and it was it was just as bad , |
| 8 | I suggested to RCA in America that instead of going the normal route that they try makin' a classy but inexpensive TV ad and get it on during shows like The David Letterman Show . |
| 9 | Teachers and textbook writers need a framework of understanding which ensures that they avoid underestimating the complex competence which all native speakers have in their mother tongue . |
| 10 | But in 1921 the King 's personal physician , Lord Dawson , stunned his profession alike and delighted the press by praising the morality of family limitation and warning Church leaders that they risked losing a whole generation by their unrealistic pronouncements ; an example followed in 1925 when the next King 's physician , Sir H. Rolliston , Regius Professor of Physick at Cambridge , became president of a new family-planning clinic . |
| 11 | However , it was also acknowledged that the task set before the filmmakers was so large that it defied reducing the complex series of events into a simple formula drama . |
| 12 | Morse thought it must be the splendid grandfather clock he 'd seen somewhere that he heard chiming the three-quarters ( 10.45 a.m. ) as he and Lewis sat beside each other in a deep settee in the Lancaster Room . |
| 13 | And his self-despite was so strong that he knew reviving an old flame or chasing some young actress would only aggravate it . |
| 14 | James Tomlinson could not and still does not believe that he imagined seeing the mysterious passenger . |
| 15 | Is it not time that he started backing the British car industry in the way that the Germans support theirs ? |
| 16 | Although the government managed to survive a no confidence vote in the Knesset on Jan. 27 , Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir had made it clear shortly after the departure of Tehiya and Moledet that he favoured holding an early general election ( elections were due to be held before November 1992 ) . |
| 17 | He stopped short of announcing any amalgamations of forces , however , despite recent speculation that he intended cutting the 43 forces in England and Wales to 25 . |
| 18 | He stopped short of announcing any amalgamations of forces , however , in spite of recent speculation that he intended cutting the 43 forces in England and Wales to 25 . |