Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The realization that I had an incurable disease that was likely to kill me in a few years was a bit of a shock . |
| 3 | Or simply told the truth — told them there and now that it was n't Syl 's smile that repelled me but that I had an intuitive conviction that there was something unsound in him , something unwholesome by virtue of being undeveloped , something that would , sooner or later , cause me to turn on him with bitter cruelty as Nour had turned on me . |
| 4 | I said in Committee that I had an open mind on the matter . |
| 5 | In that same year I was posted to South Shields on the south bank of the River Tyne and quickly became aware that I had an enormous burden to carry , simply because I had spent all of my previous service on ‘ the other side of the river ’ . |
| 6 | There is something so fatally trivial about this movie in its elevation of appearance over substance , that I feel an irrational resistance to her as Claudia . |
| 7 | You might be forgiven for thinking that I see an ideal speaker-hearer as someone who relies on everyone else to complete his conversational turns , never finishes a sentence , speaks very quickly and often with his mouth full , never answers questions , always repeats himself , says nothing without hedging , and invariably forgets what he wants to say — but who survives , if only by ending his utterance with a triumphant whatchamacallit . |
| 8 | ‘ That I find an ignorant point of view . |
| 9 | I see that I enjoy an exaggerated reputation for probity among my compatriots . |
| 10 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in a garage at the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too ! |
| 11 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in the garage and the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too . |
| 12 | He is absolutely amazed by it and spends lots of time in a garage at the back , which actually means that I spend an awful lot of time in that garage in the cold too ! |
| 13 | The specialist diagnosed an ‘ inflamed pubic bone ’ and recommended that I wear an athletic support for sport . |
| 14 | She did n't know what she had meant , only that she felt an uncontrollable urge to thwart him . |
| 15 | He gave her a look of such hatred that she took an involuntary step backwards . |
| 16 | She alleged , too , that she had an illegal relationship with her mother . |
| 17 | It was only after she had fainted at tennis that her father took her to a specialist who found that she had an extra vertebra . |
| 18 | She felt as if she were back in a milieu which she understood , that she had an indefinable rapport with this tall , shaggy , rather solitary figure , dressed in jeans and an open-necked shirt and , as she had just observed , running-shoes . |
| 19 | The most astonishing aspect of the case was not that she had an understandable desire to disport herself in space , but that under the law as it stands a major general had to offer her an abject apology for the recruiting sergeant showing a welcome piece of common sense . |
| 20 | No , what she found so overwhelmingly infuriating was that when he had enquired tactfully , some might say , whether she was tired , he clearly had been expecting her to say a polite ‘ yes ’ so that he could then suggest that she had an early night . |
| 21 | Diana 's first public engagement as Princess of Wales was , appropriately , a tour of the principality , and it was obvious from the very first day that she had an extraordinary talent . |
| 22 | And then , after putting the note on his bed for him to read when he came back for his rest and covering it with the undyed hessian bedspread in case their child saw it , she would sit down and try to wring words out of the sleepy little boy at breakfast before he went off to school , and find that she had an empty morning in which to worry about what she had written . |
| 23 | In these circumstances it is necessary to ask whether the bank took reasonable steps to try and ensure that she had an adequate comprehension of the effect of the charge . |
| 24 | That she had an old Tom , Mary and Tom . |
| 25 | Showing the Princess in conference with one of her dress designers did nothing to allay the view that she spent an inordinate amount of money on clothes ; and broadcasting the Prince 's remark that he talked to the flowers in his garden was a bad mistake . |
| 26 | I feel , rather than see , Moira suddenly remembering that she has an awful lot of things to do somewhere else . |
| 27 | Can I ask , I know we 've got Amanda Root here , who 's going to help us in the Health Action Area Report , I also know that she has an ailing child , can we then take the item eleven , health action areas now on page fifty-eight , so that we can let Amanda go back to her commitments . |
| 28 | ‘ If the creditor takes adequate steps to inform her and reasonably supposes that she has an adequate comprehension of the obligations she is undertaking and an understanding of the effect of the transaction , the fact that she failed to grasp some material part of the document , or , indeed , the significance of what she was doing , can not , I think , in itself give her an equity to set aside , notwithstanding that at an earlier stage the creditor relied upon her husband to obtain her consent to enter into the obligation of surety . |
| 29 | ‘ The Princess should avoid wearing anything fussy and I hope that she chooses an English designer . |
| 30 | All I ask of you in this , as in any other area , is that you keep an open mind . |