Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all .
2 You 're not forgetting that I called you before that time myself , and you told me Bonanza had taken the girl away somewhere ? ’
3 Because there were , there were easily three lists of influence on referrals that you need to be attuned to , that I gave you in that one erm praise , give a bit of praise to my wife because all I 'm proud of crafty , I thought , you know , why did n't you say that was a beautiful brief .
4 The inner ring itself could never quite understand her arrival there , and concluded finally that she made it through sheer cheek .
5 Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part .
6 ‘ Nature-lover , ’ he teased , and she knew then that she held him in some quite high regard .
7 There is no lasting acrimony between Gedge and Rigby and when they meet up he often jokes that she provided him with enough material to launch and sustain a musical career .
8 She goes on slowly and naively : ‘ I 'm really glad , in a way , that you took me to that place .
9 We saved them , they were on about cameras and that and then we found out inserts inside it that you got it with that did n't you ?
10 I just hope that you issued him with that warning because I meant what I said — I 'll ruin him if he hurts her again . ’
11 However she did not work in isolation of the sales figures and shop reports , which she read avidly and , as she wrote to Moira : ‘ I feel that we hit it in many respects but we do n't seem to repeat the exciting things fast though . ’
12 they always seemed backward , they found that they took them to different specialist and the truth is , they 've both left school now and got jobs , but they were er , dyslexia
13 Very briefly , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire County Council , you raised the issue of procedures looking at the er post two thousand and six scenario within the light of er a statutory greenbelt er at that time , and I would envisage that the County Council and the Districts , if indeed we 're all er in business at er er in in in the next century , would probably want to run a similar sort of exercise that they would be ran through the end of the eighties , and that is to sit down together , er and look at all the options , er that are available for Greater York , in the same way that they did it in ninety eighty nine , one additional factor at that time would be that er the greenbelt would be statutory , and it would be statutory if the County Council and ninety five percent of the district support on sites would be a tight greenbelt so the options would be looked at erm er in that context , on the comments that er Miss Whittaker , erm questions that Miss Whittaker raised , there is a paper that the County Council produced for the greenbelt local plan enquiry that I remember well as N Y Two , which set out in detail the various components , erm of the York greenbelt in addition to the historic title that the that the focus of the green belt comes across a variety of of of of matters , and if it if it is helpful to this panel that document was acceptable by and large , supported by the District , we can certainly put that in , and can circulate it round .
14 The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’
15 The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’
16 ‘ I have three or four : two black Strats , a Les Paul Junior with a neck-through-body — really heavy guitar , sustains really well — a Flying V that they built me with one pickup — neck-through-body also — and a regular Flying V. ’
17 But that Moorish Negress was so skilful in drawing the Turkish bow , that it was held for a marvel , and it is said that they called her in Arabic Nugueymat Turya , which is to say , the Star of the Archers .
18 Whitlock had spent most of the afternoon with them and he 'd come away with the distinct impression that they held him in little regard .
19 The only thing , today , is that they escorted us without any weapons .
20 The trouble with winning , she explained , was that it left her with bad memories rather than good .
21 Perhaps the most important element in Florey 's brief occupation of the Sheffield chair was that it brought him into close contact with Edward Mellanby ( see Chapter 7 ) .
22 yeah well you know it 's okay well you know I well you know yeah it 's just that it worried me about this meeting here and three people out of the five people in the room did n't realise that it was a reservations and booking service .
23 An ancient animal with 5 per cent of an eye might indeed have used it for something other than sight , but it seems to me at least as likely that it used it for 5 per cent vision .
24 What surprises me is that he said it in public . ’
25 So Rob 's instruction was that he put them in those files and I did n't think it was a particularly good idea because everything 's easier to find if it 's in the envelopes that we 've put them in .
26 ‘ But I thank God that He spared me for this ! ’
27 I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' .
28 His skill at hunting living prey increased each day until he could stoop on a hare from half a mile away , judging its path and speeding his attack so that he hit it with such force that it was dead before his talons fully closed on it .
29 So they tied him with chains but the demonic powers were so great in his life that he snapped them like new cords .
30 This is no fiction , but a report from the Daily Telegraph of 1864 which so impressed itself upon Ruskin that he reprinted it in red type in Sesame and Lilies : ‘ Be sure , the facts themselves are written in that colour , in a book which we shall all of us , literate or illiterate , have to read our page of , some day . ’
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