Example sentences of "[pers pn] [that] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , it was pointed out to me that some teachers were making lesson notes for the first time in years ! |
| 2 | Mickey Spielberg , Disney 's chief imagineer , told me that some adjustments have been made for the European park , especially in the type of catering provided . |
| 3 | Poole told me that some people were also shocked because John , in his role as the Devil , ‘ disguised himself as a girl in point shoes , a tutu and a blonde wig , with his devil 's horns showing through ’ . |
| 4 | You 're pleased about his engagement — he told me that some time ago — and you 've as good as admitted it tonight . ’ |
| 5 | One of the guerrillas invites him to drink wine , and in no time he is completely drunk , and has told them that some lorries loaded with ammunition are coming up the road , to help in the campaign to wipe out the guerrillas . |
| 6 | It has n't occurred to them that some people might actually have to survive on any money they 're given . ’ |
| 7 | What about if I suggested to you that some people would think that being anti-vivisection was in bad taste , how would you answer the point ? |
| 8 | And I will tell you that some time next week what was the scope of it is . |
| 9 | As your needs change and you grow , your inner teacher may tell you that some points need changing on your tape . |
| 10 | Covering her impatience , she told him that some keys similar to MacQuillan 's desk keys had been found and Ruby had been trying to divine from them the identity of their owner . |
| 11 | It depressed him that some observers thought the debate would be used ‘ as a way of paying off some scores , real or imagined ’ . |
| 12 | A British Rail quality manager and former Sunderland nut , he changed allegiance in 1980 when it seemed to him that some Roker players were becoming too mercenary . |
| 13 | He remembered his wife mentioning to him that some immigrants had moved into the street , and , because he knew that neither Donna nor Mrs Stych would bother to call on immigrants , he felt vaguely sorry for the newcomers ' isolation . |
| 14 | He might have said to her that some time in the middle of the nineteenth century a cult had grown up around the idea of the home . |
| 15 | So valuable is it that some scientists regard it as a scent and as soon as they detect it , they know that they are on the right track . |
| 16 | Once we have put aside such relatively easy observations as the tendency or requirement for long or complex adjective phrases to occur postnominally , there are two fundamental questions which badly need to be asked about the grammar of postnominal attributives : ( a ) What is the difference in effect or value obtained by the speaker who uses postnominal position when prenominal position is equally grammatical ? ( b ) Why is it that some adjectives ( and some adjective phrases ) can occur quite easily in postnominal position while others , apparently comparable , are limited to prenominal position ? |
| 17 | Why is it that some people find it so difficult to accommodate the idea that providing immediate relief to human suffering can go alongside campaigning for longer term solu-tions ? |
| 18 | However , from our present perspective it is actually more pertinent to turn the question round the other way and ask : why is it that some people , despite having a strong genetic disposition for psychotic illness do not actually break down — or , even if they do , are partly protected from its more devastating effects ? |
| 19 | That is , why is it that some people rather than others who experience the type of disparity described above become committed to a movement for moral reform ? |
| 20 | Why is it that some people have more energy to give to their careers than others ? |
| 21 | Events like redundancy , divorce , bereavement , family and work problems , debts , separation , illness , may be stressful for most of us , but why is it that some people can go through crisis after crisis and never suffer the effects of stress ? |
| 22 | Table 16–3 reminds us that some government expenditure is financed by borrowing . |
| 23 | DESPITE the family rows and marriage break-ups , and the noticeable gaps in the ranks of her party guests , the 92-year-old Queen Mum 's tranquil smile and familiar wave told us that some things are unchanging . |
| 24 | Just when we thought we were comfortably settled , Mrs Brown informed us that some friends who took a stall in the Bedford market were coming the next Saturday and that , as she had always put them up , would we mind sleeping in the kitchen on a sofa and a shake-down ? |
| 25 | Path a reminds us that some people from working class backgrounds attended selective secondary schools . |
| 26 | Felix McGlennon 's account — probably not untypical — of his composing methods reminds us that some categories of nineteenth-century printed song originated in quasi-oral ways : |