Example sentences of "[that] [noun prp] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles baulked slightly at that and then he realized that Bernard actually thought himself Noel Coward . |
| 2 | It must be stated that Yamamoto never wanted war with the United States and advised against it . |
| 3 | About to bite into the sandwich again he stopped suddenly , as if only just realising that Denis still had the gun pointing at him . |
| 4 | Then it turns out that Patrick rather likes it after all . |
| 5 | There can be no doubt that MacDonald truly intended to resign . |
| 6 | Subsequent investigators have attempted to read deep , allegorical , psychological , and even transcendental meanings into the book ; it is more likely that Stoker merely intended to write a popular horror story by taking an ancient legend , placing it in a contemporary setting , and garnishing his tale with blood , thunder , and damsels in distress . |
| 7 | Such questions are worth distinguishing , however , because there are moral philosophers today who think that Kant effectively answered the third correctly , but that he offers no sufficient answer to the second . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's the only picture in the house , ’ she said , and realized that Roger probably knew this already . |
| 9 | It 's an object-oriented Object Management Group Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant application integration scheme that DEC already has running on Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp machines as well as its own Alpha RISC . |
| 10 | He pointed to a couple of other technical inferiorities , and went on to note that DEC still has n't managed to convince any of the semiconductor manufacturers to take on the production of Alpha — it looks as though DEC will have to make it itself . |
| 11 | And , blessedly , it was facts that Morse now seemed to be concentrating on as , forgetting Aldrich for the moment , he browsed once again through the questionnaires . |
| 12 | It is interesting that Offa subsequently required the assistance of Beorhtric to effect the expulsion of Ecgberht from England ( ASC A , s.a. 836 ) . |
| 13 | And so it was , in 1950 , that Edouard effectively became the baron de Chavigny . |
| 14 | Virgin were the only company that could pull him out of the hole , and it was to Virgin that McLaren now turned , cap in hand . |
| 15 | It was a command , but his deep voice was so soft that Isabel hesitantly held out her wounded finger . |
| 16 | I believe that Eton now admits women to its sixth form , but nevertheless there could be no serious doubt about which was the man and which was the woman . |
| 17 | He noticed that Minton often talked despairingly and on several occasions involved himself and Vaughan in discussions of suicide . |
| 18 | Wishart , on his visits to Hamilton Terrace , began to realise that Minton never listened to wise advice and seemed almost frightened of intelligent people . |
| 19 | Then you have to allow that Kemp probably does n't open his own mail . |
| 20 | What had really confused everyone was the fact that Kemp always carried a hip-flask of brandy in the car 's glove compartment , and that he had given his wife — trapped by the legs beside him — several sips from this flask before the ambulance arrived ; and had even drunk from it himself ! |
| 21 | ‘ Did you know that Michel actually turned up on that dreadful morning when Constanza was frantic to get to the station ? |
| 22 | But he now writes to say that Newton also likened him to Dennis Skinner MP . |
| 23 | Others confused the new body with the Direct Marketing Association , a link that Warburton firmly refutes . |
| 24 | This means that CDTV primarily offers multimedia with CD-A as an added value dimension . |
| 25 | He says that Murray always tried to help others , and it was doing just that which led to the tragedy . |
| 26 | By forges Defoe meant cutlers ' smithies ; it appeared to him that Sheffield already had a pronounced industrial character , and though it was very small by later standards it struck him as being ‘ very populous and large ’ . |
| 27 | Concealed lighting made it seem so naturalistic that Alexandra almost expected to smell the salt and hear the cry of the seagulls which dipped and swooped at intervals around the walls . |
| 28 | It is hardly surprising that the Largo of No. 88 , one of the loveliest slow movements that Haydn ever wrote , should encourage expansive treatment , but Kuijken makes it far too heavy , seriously holding up the flow of the great melody with overemphasis and exaggerated pauses , all made the more obtrusive without continuo . |
| 29 | The politicians that Stockman so despised knew that the dismantling of the welfare state and the elimination of federal largesse were not options available to them — public opinion polls had made that very clear . |
| 30 | Continuing that theme , would it not be right to say though that Plato only gave to come back into human form to those people such as philosophers and that most other people would come back as some other form . |