Example sentences of "[pers pn] that [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 2 | To me that lacks a certain degree of intellect and although we have n't made any abrasively bold political statements as such , I think people can guage where we stand . ’ |
| 3 | You will gather I mean it caught me unawares , and in fact it disturbed me that having a bit of a wobbly on something as simple as this did not bode well for the Devil 's Ridge , which The Munros book described as a section where ‘ some may welcome the security of a rope ’ . |
| 4 | Besides , he 'd just tell me that having a tower around was bad for business . |
| 5 | It worries me that turning a blind eye to the deliberate starvation of these patients is portrayed as contributing in some way to the high ethical standards of the nursing profession . ’ |
| 6 | With me that rings a warning bell , since it 's one of those suspicious New Age buzzwords that always portend a scam or screwball notion such as crystal therapy or out-of-body travel . |
| 7 | Even now a fast ion may be shooting through you that escaped a few days ago from the Jovian magnetosphere . |
| 8 | But its thickhead supporters like you that get a bad name for him . |
| 9 | My third point is to remind you that fixing a criterion for non-intervention amounts to setting the moral agenda for the treatment of VLBW babies . |
| 10 | Those who would like to check the validity of this view can see his portrait in the church at Arona or , more spectacularly , visit the colossal statue to him that stands a little to the north of the town . |
| 11 | Indeed , he even had a buccaneering moment when it seemed to him that to have a choc-bar himself would do the trick of making him exactly like her . |
| 12 | Certainly the actress seemed friendly enough , her perfectly carved mouth curving into a smile as she nodded amiably ; yet there was something about her that sent a warning tingle up Shannon 's spine . |
| 13 | There was something about the expression on his face as he unclipped his seatbelt and turned towards her that made a sudden flurry of alarm run through her , and she backed as far away as the close confines of the car would allow . |
| 14 | Dennis is the one is n't it that drinks a lot ? |
| 15 | But what is it that enables a person to recognise a pain as having its source in , say , his finger ? |
| 16 | For what is it that qualifies a given topic as a possible existent ? |
| 17 | But what kind of guest is it that compels a host to carry dirty dishes ? |
| 18 | Intel told it that running a current SCO binary on Pentium would win it only twice the performance of SCO Unix on the 80486 , compared with a fourfold increase it could expect with code recompiled for Pentium , although it would mean giving up on backwards compatibility . |
| 19 | I 've adjusted it that wants a bit of that 's it , one two . |
| 20 | However , when Rousseau 's text is submitted to the questioning scrutiny of the grammatologist , it emerges that , although Rousseau clearly wants to say that melody originates in the passions , he actually has to formulate a definition of it that includes a notion of articulation and differentiation . |
| 21 | The visiting of the iniquity of their fathers on to succeeding generations in the Third Commandment , the banning of ‘ he that hath a flat nose ’ , and the writing ‘ the fathers have eaten a sour grape and the children 's teeth are set on edge ’ are suggestive of the stigmata of congenital syphilis . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't know what you said to 'im last evenin' , but 'e 'ad a bloke call later and done a bit of a business deal with 'im that earned a fiver , would yer believe . |