Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I knew that I possessed a sidereal compass and that I belonged to another world . |
2 | Erm , is that okay for that I just have something that I read in New Scientist does everybody take it ? |
3 | I also said that erm my I expressed that the fears that I expressed at this meeting last time about er the fact that Paul and I now supervise civilian staff , er which I 've never been sat down and told what the civilians term of contract are and what I can or can not say or whatever , so erm I feel it will be quite valuable , and brought it for me to see if anybody think it 's worthwhile pursuing . |
4 | One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind . |
5 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
6 | ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’ |
7 | It was in this cave that I came across another example of Yorkshire wit : revealed in the light of a torch was a daubed inscription on the wall of the cave , ‘ J. CAESAR B.C. 44 ’ . |
8 | I have fished all over Scotland but the first place that I came across this system , which is used to distribute available fishing fairly amongst guests , was at Scourie , and it works very well indeed . |
9 | I was having some of my aquatint plates of the Lake District steel-faced and when , in conversation with Mr. McQueen , he discovered that I came from this area , he recalled that in the past his forebears had printed for another artist from the Lakes . |
10 | But certainly that man that I went to that time he was very very nice and |
11 | These proposals and many more formed the basis of legislation following the 1987 general election — as too did the model report from Dame Mary Warnock that I commissioned into human fertilization and embryology . |
12 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
13 | You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time . |
14 | Except that I had in some way to justify myself . |
15 | they 're improvements that I started with ninth year . |
16 | Of these , the set that I selected for careful examination within the main projects is the ( pull ) set , which deals with alternation between [ u ] and [ Δ ] in a set of lexical items such as pull , put , foot , shook . |
17 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
18 | An incident at the fair in 1 920 always caused the family great amusement , although I felt , and still feel , that I acted with great aplomb . |
19 | Well I mean one of the women I spoke to that I mentioned in that piece felt strongly that schools were laying too much on children in terms of taking responsibility for how the world is , and she erm mentioned in particular erm the kind of ecological issues that lots of schools and teachers are taking up now and erm children are becoming involved in projects for , you know , recycle this that and the other and there 's a book , is n't there , ‘ The Children 's Green Guide ’ or something . |
20 | It 's about er ten years ago nearly that I er stopped being a teacher and when I was a teacher er up having to do assemblies er it was always something that I did with great reluctance and er was er pleased if I could get other people to do it er it seems rather odd then er that I 've actually said yes coming to do er an assembly here today and it 's perhaps a sign of mental instability on my part . |
21 | The issue centres upon the response to an order made by Mr. Justice Garland in the early hours of 2 May and the consideration that I gave to that order at a meeting at 4 pm on the same day . |
22 | The Minister referred to the figures that I gave on regional assistance . |
23 | Had never felt the exquisite excitement that she felt at this moment . |
24 | That might in itself imply that she felt for some reason that she would be suspected , or perhaps she knew who the killer was and preferred to keep quiet . |
25 | On that instant she put down her comb , and turned her back on her dressing-table mirror — and at the same time rejected any notion that she felt in any way excited . |
26 | On the reverse of each plate is Cicely Mary Barker 's original poem that she penned for each fairy . |
27 | There is a local story that Queen Elizabeth spent a night here ; what is certain is that she passed on this road on her way from Burderop to Cirencester . |
28 | He recalled tales about her , that she had at one time belonged to a respectable family of farmers ; unbelievable now , for she could certainly no longer be placed in that category . |
29 | She had told him that Brenda was obsessively vegetarian , and that she longed for red meat : would he take her out ? |
30 | It turned out that she lived in some place called Romford and as she was due to take me back there the day after the funeral I had only been left with a few hours to make a decision . |