Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While I might have had difficulty believing you at that particular moment two years ago , it was two years ago . |
| 2 | Roman , desiring her , his dark gaze drawing her into that hot , frightening vortex of her own senses … caves , black as night , ‘ caverns measureless to man ’ , and the story of the wicked Hasan … |
| 3 | I 'm sure it was Jan egging him on that got him expelled from the Rainbow Crche . |
| 4 | It was funny to hear Sir Bernard Ingham telling us on that delayed programme about the recession , which Samir Shah so bravely defended , that Mrs Thatcher was too nice to sack people ( bless you , Bernard , she got through more company than Sweeney Todd ) . |
| 5 | ‘ The Secretary of State , in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 21(1) , ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) of the Oil and Gas ( Enterprise ) Act 1982 , and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf , hereby makes the following Order : ’ |
| 6 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , of course , and for pity 's sake stop reminding me about that . |
| 8 | I told Michel that was all very well but for goodness ' sake stop taking her to that white port-wine place , the sandwiches there — though delicious — are minute . |
| 9 | A letter from County informing us of that nineteen ninety two subscriptions are to be nine pounds . |
| 10 | I remember Emma telling you about that . |
| 11 | that 's still not it as much as er Robert Maxwell lost and seem , ca , see the Labour party nailing him for that , no you do n't because he was a head of a Labour party paper |