Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | up and running as it were and er I shall be I I know already that some of these figures are inaccurate |
| 2 | Er , but I I think actually that the nineteen weeks er in June re is largely caused of er some clearing out of cupboards on the part of Jill , prior to her maternity leave . |
| 3 | He raised both his arms in his peculiar hieratic way , a way in which I knew now that there was something deliberately , not fortuitously , symbolic . |
| 4 | In cases about which I know only that his performance is better than mine , letting his advice tilt the balance in favour of his solution will sometimes , depending on my rate of mistakes and the formula used , improve my performance . |
| 5 | Brody speculates that this finding ( which runs counter to the evidence which I presented above that grandparents place more value on this relationship than grandchildren ) may reflect the idealism of the younger generation and their lack of experience of situations where demands are actually made upon them . |
| 6 | After some heated argument in which I pointed out that it would have been more courteous and certainly more seamanlike to ask us to move before attempting to sink us as well as our motor boat , the skipper agreed to accept liability for the damage , and we moved off to lick our wounds . |
| 7 | In England for the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch , I had a long conversation with James , of which I recall principally that it was about fate . |
| 8 | In 1972 I wrote a paper with Brandon Carter and an American colleague , Jim Bardeen , in which we pointed out that although there were many similarities between entropy and the area of the event horizon , there was this apparently fatal difficulty . |
| 9 | Many pilots select the days on which they fly so that the weather is near ideal and not too windy . |
| 10 | His investigations are accompanied by a search for an india-rubber , about which he remembers only that it contained the two letters ‘ di ’ in the middle of its trade name ( hence ‘ Oe di pe ’ ) . |
| 11 | Mr Venables also held a news conference yesterday at which he vowed again that he would continue his fight to wrest control of the club from Mr Sugar . |
| 12 | Hector Charlesworth broadcast a Dominion Day speech , in both English and French , in which he pointed out that a famous French writer had said that ‘ A man with two languages is a man with two souls ’ and he felt that if LaRochfoucauld could make such a statement it might well be embraced by all true Canadians . |
| 13 | On this assumption , a Cambridge don , John Michell , wrote a paper in 1783 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in which he pointed out that a star that was sufficiently massive and compact would have such a strong gravitational field that light could not escape : any light emitted from the surface of the star would be dragged back by the star 's gravitational attraction before it could get very far . |
| 14 | ‘ Then when I saw you I realised suddenly that you were just the friend who would help to make it all a success . |
| 15 | no , so he said erm , when I opened it court order , I said well I do n't know what yours is I said but it 's nothing to do with this , I said this is about that so when I opened the other one I remember then that when they originally built that court order bit he give me one cheque for sixty two quid and one for sixty nine |
| 16 | And I want to maintain a level of efficiency in everything we do so that we can hold our heads high in the sure and certain knowledge that we are as good as anyone — and better than most — at what we do . |
| 17 | Because clearly in in debating this policy I think a number of the districts have also raised diff different points of interest in terms of what should be recognized as exceptional development and we we went down that that road a couple of years ago and unfortunately the districts came to the conclusion that it was n't appropriate to try and list the exceptional circumstances . |
| 18 | Before she dismissed him she said unequivocally that it was the Government 's intention to rebuild Britain 's weakened manufacturing base and reduce the ever-growing importation of manufactured products . |
| 19 | ‘ What job is it you have here that makes you so much more likely than the rest of your family to attain a Mercedes ? ’ |
| 20 | I proposed that I teach one woman what I knew so that she could teach the others after we got more machines . |
| 21 | What you hoping then that the building society are gon na lend you the money so you can pay your bank draft off ? |
| 22 | you perhaps have n't got the same degree of landlord exploitation , you might , I think one might argue from , from what we said earlier that in the north you 've got a s a slightly more paternalistic landlord , it 's , it , there 's less , less absentee landlordism landlords were more likely to have been behaving within the confines of moral economy would n't , would n't have been tt erm reducing rents , it was done on a much more , more personal sort of scale . |
| 23 | It is those objects from distant days that are in some way in unexpected contrast to what we use today that are most effective in establishing in a reader 's mind the ambience of those times . |
| 24 | And if people mention obstructions I 'll make sure I find out exactly what they mean so that I can identify the threshold of the runway correctly . |
| 25 | Royston Lambert captured this mood in a seventeen-year-old boy talking about his family and school : ‘ They have been coming here since the seventeenth century , I think , although what they did before that I ca n't imagine , had Tutors I suppose . |
| 26 | I would agree with that but I 'll take it further to say that , and if you read Marx you 'd find this very clear , what he meant ultimately that the working class would achieve is a kind of a society where there was a common ownership of the means of life . |
| 27 | He 's got his own skateboard ramp in his back garden and he video tapes what he does so that he can watch what he 's doing wrong and all the rest of it . |
| 28 | ‘ But before I could say anything I discovered suddenly that I 'd meant nothing to you but an unimportant little romantic adventure , ’ he added bitterly . |