Example sentences of "[pron] [that] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This confirms many readers ' views and , since woodworkers keep tool and machinery suppliers in business , it seems to me that somebody on the supply side should justify what appears to be gross profiteering . |
| 2 | I have a sensation of heat as I approach the fire ; but when I approach the same fire too closely , I have a sensation of pain ; so there is nothing to convince me that something in the fire resembles heat , any more than the pain ; it is just that there must be something in it ( whatever this may turn out to be ) that produces the sensations of heat or pain . |
| 3 | That evening Mrs Puri remarked to me that none of the considerable expense of the party would have been necessary if members of her family did not insist on leaving the Punjab and pursuing business ventures Abroad . |
| 4 | You 'd think there 'd be fear that the ploughman would suffer damage among the horse 's hoofs , but such was the bond between them that nothing of the kind ever happened . ’ |
| 5 | He told them that none of the servants had seen Putt since the forest ‘ accident ’ . |
| 6 | She totally childish and not something that somebody in the twentieth century should waste their waste , their time with , and for a brief moment I felt the moral force of Sigmund Freud as through his daughter and of course psychologically this makes sense because I 'm quite sure her superego was modelled on her father 's . |
| 7 | ‘ If you were Free People and you wanted to strike a shocking , symbolic blow at the family — something that everyone in the country would feel — which family would you bomb ? ’ |
| 8 | She reached for her handbag , and with a hurried final glance at the mirror to reassure herself that none of the inner turmoil showed she locked the flat and went out . |
| 9 | Back then it was called ‘ nancy boys ’ which was what my father used to call homosexuals , and he thought that all actors were homosexuals , so I could n't tell him that everyone in the company that I first joined was homosexual — except me . |
| 10 | Joyce tried to comfort her , assuring her that none of the boys would have to go . |
| 11 | In these great welfare state totalitarianisms therefore , as in the modern world , child-rearing regimes could regress to pre-agricultural styles , and oral indulgence , Oedipal rivalry and incestuous fixation could all be allowed to occur in the individual because the state bureaucracies would see to it that none of the undesirable consequences of these things occurred in reality . |
| 12 | Physicists tell us that nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light , and this applies to signals inside a computer , too . |