Example sentences of "[pers pn] that [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dank smell of the water was not unpleasant , and for years the scent of la Sologne that enveloped me that night would pierce my memory : a combination of stagnant water , slime , wild mushrooms , wispy dry grasses , sand and well-hung game . |
| 2 | ‘ His books taught me that poetry can be pure and profound , and at the same time popular . ’ |
| 3 | His view seems to be undeniable in this situation , and it serves to convince me that ageism will never be tackled unless recognition of the problem is followed by the introduction of positive measures . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ It seems to me that business could not function properly if such information could not be kept confidential . ’ |
| 5 | Juliette , it seems to me that openness must be represented not just in the way a school carries out its activities , but also the way it 's run , the way it 's governed . |
| 6 | representative , and , an independent superintendent , have just inspected the ship and tell me that loading can not start until the crew have dried out the holds — that will delay us a while . |
| 7 | This trip up country has been most valuable , and has convinced me that reconstruction must be our theme more than politics . |
| 8 | It just occurred to me that Tuesday would be another opportunity to talk to Julian , the guy who comes in and does the S U legal aid stuff . |
| 9 | The conception that a Lusignan should humour the fools , to persuade them that surrender would not be dishonourable ? |
| 10 | The anxiety of the papal reformers to put all clergy under a rule shows that experience suggested to them that celibacy could only be enforced on monks or folk living a quasi-monastic life . |
| 11 | There Terauchi informed them that independence would be proclaimed . |
| 12 | Maureen , who was now the manageress of the wool shop , had warned them that wool might be in short supply so they had all bought plenty of every colour , including a lot of khaki . |
| 13 | Northern Ireland 's experience in Spain and Mexico in the last two World Cups taught them that heat can pose more problems than the opposition for British-based players . |
| 14 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 15 | " Think you that Nature can not climb Above the world to such a height sublime ? |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm to tell you that dinner will be at eight , ’ Wendy passed the message cheerily . |
| 17 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 18 | Since he believed the embryo was formed from the menstrual blood by the male dynamic in the semen it was clear to him that preformation must be excluded . |
| 19 | Conran asked this manager to carry out a feasibility study , the result of which convinced him that Habitat should move into France , a country for which he has always had a great fondness . |
| 20 | Fancy her thinking that getting him that lamp would make him feel any different about moving . |
| 21 | It seemed to him that Strawberry might as well have said that his tail was an oak tree . |
| 22 | She wanted to reach out and touch him , to tell him that life could be wonderful . |
| 23 | He seemed surprised as if it had not occurred to him that literature might let him down in this way . |
| 24 | A small Portuguese man with ringworm scars on his scalp was holding up a huge pair of trousers in despair ; I went over , took his trousers and shirt , told him that mine would fit him perfectly , and changed into his . |
| 25 | Then he would place them on one of the old time boards which was er board about nine inches by nine inches and then hand that through the pigeon hole to the cashier and in front of him that cashier would laboriously count that money and agree the total there and then . |
| 26 | You can tell him that joke ca n't ya ? |
| 27 | In order to damp down monarchist hopes that it might now be possible to pressure him into resigning , Franco wrote to Don Juan on 2 December 1954 , telling him that power would not be transferred in Franco 's lifetime and that his successor would be bound by the guiding principles of the regime set up in 1939 . |
| 28 | Who could ever have told her that love could be this good ? |
| 29 | The sight of the bolted galley door reminded her that Fen would not have breakfasted . |
| 30 | Ignoring once again Honderich 's polemical language , there is an important problem here : namely , how is it that Conservatism can be responsible for what everyone agrees are two very different governmental strategies informed by two very different social philosophies ? |