Example sentences of "that [indef pn] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the organisation appoints committees to deal with aspects of planning , policy forming and co-ordination there needs to be clear lines of communication so that everyone involved knows the person to whom the committee reports . |
| 2 | In the meantime , it is likely that everyone had contracted the disease at some time or another in his or her life , and it proved fatal to those with the merest weakness whose bodies could not withstand its ravages . |
| 3 | A R. What you are saying is that everyone seems to miss the work of Litz Pisk [ a legendary movement teacher at Central School ] who had such movement sense . |
| 4 | She stabbed a book with a dangerous index finger , and took herself back to her desk , to survey her class and see that no-one had taken a whiff of pot while her attention had been distracted . |
| 5 | The local radio had reported that someone had heard a skylark singing , and that in Lerwick a blackbird was already on its first clutch of catfood . |
| 6 | I knew what I was going out to and I was only concerned that there might be some hitch or delay , that I might get there and find that someone had made a mistake and I was n't due out for another six months — such was my anxiety to be released . |
| 7 | After contacting the police , a heartbroken Dorothy returned home to find that someone had pushed the wallet , with the £400 inside , through her letter box . |
| 8 | It was obvious that someone had robbed the company of a great deal of money and Craig was trusting her to find out who . |
| 9 | It appeared that someone had rammed the back of McCallen 's bike , wrecking the exhaust pipe on the lap before the accident occurred . |
| 10 | Said in yesterday 's paper that someone had had a wheelbarrow valued at thirty pounds stolen from a back garden and it was somewhere at Kirk Hill . |
| 11 | Oh , it said in yesterday 's paper that someone had had a wheelbarrow valued at thirty pounds stolen from her back garden and it was somewhere at , where the back gardens are n't particularly accessible . |
| 12 | So thought I. The first part was okay when we got the squad marching the 50 yards , but I was the only one that did not see that someone had dug a trench in the line of march , and in one step leapt over the trench in perfect style . |
| 13 | This procedure was followed when a minor inheriting property claimed to have become of age , or when it was thought necessary to determine legally that someone had attained the age when he or she was allowed to marry . |
| 14 | I only wish that someone had opened the exit door before I passed through it . |
| 15 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical . |
| 16 | She turned back , and only then remembered that someone had started the engines . |
| 17 | If you heard that someone had taken an amethyst to bed with them , you 'd probably think that they 'd forgotten to take off their jewellery . |
| 18 | This way , it was going to be fairly obvious that someone had emptied a bottle of bleach into the punch but , since Henry could not possibly have a motive for murdering the whole of Maple Drive ( as far as the police were concerned , anyway ) , it would be relatively easy for him to gasp in horror and dismay and to take the Wimbledon CID around the places where he had left the bowl of punch unattended . |
| 19 | One night she had just blown out the light when she had the sudden feeling that someone had entered the room . |
| 20 | Dalziel 's gaze wandered suspiciously round the room as if seeking signs ‘ that someone had had the effrontery to deface the slightly peeling wall with festive decoration . |
| 21 | It 's proof that someone 's issued a book to you , yeah . |
| 22 | They immediately brighten , become more animated and are often quite grateful that someone has taken the time to listen to them . |
| 23 | Climbing the steps through the central arch to the altar-like plinth , I see that someone has left a pot of red begonias . |
| 24 | If we are pretty sure that someone has had a heart attack though , we 'll whistle up the RAF helicopter to get the casualty straight to the hospital . |
| 25 | These specifically make it clear that the clinic may not disclose that someone has had the test , or its result , without that person 's consent , except to a doctor , or a doctor 's assistant ( and even then only in connection with , and for the purpose of the treatment or prevention of spread of HIV infection ) . |
| 26 | In 1966 , soon after the book appeared , my agent told me that someone wanted to make a film out of it . |
| 27 | We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place . |
| 28 | Joan recalled what happened : ‘ Apparently the soldier opened the bag and something fell out and he thought it was a paw and that somebody had thrown a dog into the river . |
| 29 | My attitude is that somebody has to do the job and if I get bumped off , I have experienced much more than the average bloke . |
| 30 | Er Councillor Poole it seems that nobody wants to shift the trees . |