Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb -s] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You must tell your friend , ’ continued the lady , ‘ that she has made a mistake . |
2 | At times the loneliness of her position has brought her to the edge of despair , so much so that she has made a number of suicide attempts , some more half-hearted than others . |
3 | If you find it difficult to understand some of the feelings she expresses , you have to realise that she has reached a stage in life 's journey of which , as yet , you know nothing at all , and until you stand where she is standing now you are in no position to pass any judgement on her attitudes . |
4 | Evert also revealed that she has added a week of exhibition matches against Martina Navratilova to her schedule , which will be played in Asia , in April . |
5 | I am reminded of all this by a correspondent who tells me that she has had a pear tree ‘ for about 30 years and in that time , have only once had good fruit ’ . |
6 | The 18-year-old from Dinas Powys , currently Britain 's best young player , learned this week that she has won a place at St Hilda 's College for September 1991 to study physiology and psychology . |
7 | But never imagine for a moment that she has abandoned a lifetime of hard-won apostasy and now rejoices in the mating rituals of her long-lost tribe . |
8 | As the corporals head for lunch they pass a recruit from the TA platoon shepherding her visitors toward the museum , Where she is convinced that she has found a photograph of her mother , Who served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945 . |
9 | Yvonne was so shocked at how widespread the problem was that she has installed a hotline in her gym . |
10 | FERGIE may have found it difficult to learn Her Royal Lessons , but you do n't have to be a fitness connoisseur to see that she has learned a thing or two about keeping in Of course her title of the Disappearing Duchess takes on a different meaning now a year ago it referred to her ability to lose five stones of regal flab . |
11 | Look at that she 's scoffed a Picnic bar , now she 's scoffing a bloody Crunchie ! |
12 | He 's only recently started to take notice of Hannah like take her swimming and that on and since he found out that she 's got a heart murmur and that 's what it 's like , cos he for tea on the way back , and then he bathed the children and put them to bed , and last night no , what he put them all in the bath again , put that down again |
13 | I I told my mum and dad about that on Sunday , that she 's got a leg waxing machine . |
14 | Now I come to think of it , I do n't know much about her family at all — only that she 's got a sister and a mother somewhere in the States . ’ |
15 | ‘ That she 's got a boyfriend . ’ |
16 | It 's providential for her that she 's got a job that she 's very good at and that she enjoys . |
17 | Mm and she never wanted to return to full time teaching , its , its for her that she 's got a job that she 's very good at and she enjoy , in an extremely nice school . |
18 | but having said that she 's got a sort of ready meal , all you have to do is use one hand either pick your plate up , put it in the microwave and you 've got a cooked meal |
19 | ‘ Oh , its been a strain — I did n't mind at first because she 'd stay down at her flat for short periods of time , but obviously as her memory 's got worse she does n't realise that she 's got a flat , and the only thing she knows is in here , and this is the only place she wants to be — here . |
20 | The best we could hope for is that she 's had a brainstorm , and I do n't know how often that happens outside of books . |
21 | It is a cliche to say that it has become a way of life , and that the stone-throwing is only the public , propaganda face of a whole political , social , economic and psychological transformation — the Palestinians ' own perestroika — which both sustains the Intifada and lays the groundwork for the eventual transition to statehood . |
22 | He is also the man who made the male pony-tail so heterosexually de rigueur that it has become a badge of masculinity on the toughest football terraces . |
23 | Furthermore , it is probable that identification with the aggressor still exists today in young children or those with regressed or fixated ego-development for this very reason : namely , that it has become a part of the genetically inherited behavioural repertoire of our species . |
24 | So much so that it has become a saw of pollsters and political commentators that ‘ election campaigns make no difference ’ . |
25 | For the young , death is so unreal that it has become a pleasure to play with , part of the fantasy of violence . |
26 | The reason that it has received so much attention is not primarily that it is of practical importance ( although it has applications , e.g. Sections 26.2 , 26.5 , 26.6 ) , but rather that it has become a context for the development of ideas about the consequences of instability and evolution towards turbulent motion . |
27 | The logical structure admittedly is independent of the desires of the thinker , but the drive behind it is an enthusiasm , or an obsession to rid himself of an intolerable burden ; at the point when we notice there is no more joy or stress in his thinking , that it has become a routine , we begin to be afraid that his creative phase his passed . |
28 | Terms were not disclosed , although the tabloid did say that it has received a capital injection from Duna , which will be used for investment purposes . |
29 | Zenith Electronics Corp , Glenview , Illinois reports that it has received a commitment from two major institutional lenders for a new $90m revolving credit agreement that is good until December 31 next year . |
30 | Saga informs us that it has written a letter of complaint to the Minister of Tourism for Cyprus , and that the hotel will not be in next year 's brochure . |