Example sentences of "that [prep] [det] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspect that for many young Germans it might be pretty meaningless , as it would be for their British or French contemporaries , who simply want to get on with their lives without having to attend to the doings of another generation . |
| 2 | Even more tragically for the vicar is the fact that for many unchurched families he is simply a cog–in the death machine ; an impersonal professional who has to mumble a few words before the curtains swish and the coffin descends to the fires below . |
| 3 | And then again if agonisings about modern are seem to take us in one direction , the banning of books as reminded us , takes us in quite another , and we have to remember that for all practical purposes it was indeed a banned book for nearly fifteen years , from the Twenties into the Thirties . |
| 4 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 5 | and we do n't see it and it 's disgraceful that for another five years they 're going to get even less and less |
| 6 | Okay bu yes now I 'm not arguing that for some depressed people it 's there 's always side effects of some kind , okay , Peter , I wanted to ask you a very personal question . |
| 7 | And we do know that for some gravitational reason we 've yet to fathom , the absorption effect is nullified below ground-level . |
| 8 | Lord Beddington was not appreciating the day to its fullest , despite the fact that for some unknown reason it had seemed a good idea to buy a Panama hat . |
| 9 | According to Ata'i , Baghdad became a mevleviyet only in 947/1540–1 , some six years after the Ottomans had taken it : a marginal note adds that for those six years it had been administered by kasabat kadis . |
| 10 | After leaving the prairies in 1937 my working career took me to many lands around the world for 37 years , and I must confess that during all that time I scarcely thought of my old friend Edna Jacques until January of 1974 , when we were living in Anguilla . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , all in a day 's work , but I must add that after that little fiasco I decided to join a more conventional hotel group and enjoyed the civilized calm of the Savoy for a while . |
| 12 | To think that after all these years he 's alive and well , and I can — oh , talk to him and touch him . |
| 13 | And Goldberg , in his pad : Dear Harsnet , it may surprise you to hear that after all these years I am finally at work transcribing the notes you entrusted to me so many years ago , with a view to eventually publishing them . |
| 14 | I thought that after all these years I 'd finally tamed her . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's funny that after all these years I still have n't forgotten what I 've been taught — so it must have been money well spent . ’ |
| 16 | It is remarkable therefore that despite these two biases we still found a twofold difference . |
| 17 | It is so large and bureaucratic that like all such hierarchies it defeats itself . |
| 18 | The Sergeant-Major had said that like all other legionnaires we would learn to sing in perfect time , so sing we would . |
| 19 | I believed that with that double victory I had now achieved more than most in British athletics , with the exceptions of course , of Coe , Cram and Ovett . |
| 20 | In these early years the Reich Treasury was unwilling to offer any subsidy to the Danzig Party , presumably on the grounds that with such poor leadership it would be money wasted . |
| 21 | I did n't have time to stop him , ’ he said , suggesting that under any other circumstances he would have downed the suspect with a flying tackle . |
| 22 | There is little doubt that under any future administration we will get a larger supply of index-linked gilts . ’ |
| 23 | You have to remember only that from each such encounter he must , to make the story one of continuing progress and placate Thomas Ozro MacAdoo , take some new fact , something that leads him on , in most cases , to another confrontation — and take us , the readers , with him . |
| 24 | To be fully professional , one needs to express feelings and give responses to the feelings of the sufferer but nonetheless be aware that within that professional relationship it is not relevant that one should be personally liked or even appreciated . |
| 25 | Whether it was that in that heightened state I had a premonition of what was to follow , or was simply recalling Dennis 's corpse-like stupor in the next room , I felt a perverted thrill , as though I were desecrating the most holy altar of all . |
| 26 | It is just that in that particular situation he had to act as he did , and to have acted differently would have meant that he would have been in the wrong though not for the same reason . |
| 27 | Grant that in this new year we may know your presence , see your love at work , and live in the light of the vent which gives us joy forever — the coming of your Son , Jesus Christ our Lord . |
| 28 | It would appear that in this moral stance they were backed by public opinion . |
| 29 | But the most important thing about Lord Robertson was that in this particular case he was even more prejudiced than Lord Grant , although in the light of all that had recently occurred , with far less excuse . |
| 30 | Uniting boredom , provinciality , the Gadarene stampede , and paper people , Peter Verkhovensky says : ‘ I realize that in this godforsaken town you are bored , so you make a rush for any piece of paper with something written on it . ’ |