Example sentences of "[noun] that [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Your worships , er , there 's nothing at all more sinister in the failure to stop and failure to report than than that , i th that is a a true record of the er er er of the incident as far as Mrs was concerned erm and it is something which erm comes about an accident which came about probably through the inexperience of the children er , running across the pedestrian crossing thinking that they have priority erm and not having regard to other road users er , and Mrs was travelling at slow speed but it was she was put in a difficult position by the the way in which the children ran across the road .
2 Which came mercifully swiftly , in the shape of another devastatingly accurate straight left , and then a perfect right uppercut which hardly seemed to travel more than a foot , but which was delivered with such a force that it lifted Mike up on to his toes , before toppling him backwards in a heap at his elder brothers ' feet .
3 It connected with such force that it cut Mr Major 's right cheek , splattered his glasses and dribbled down his dark blue suit .
4 Labour MP Don Dixon had said in the Commons on Tuesday that he believed Mr Fallon could have abused Parliament 's pre-paid mailing facilities .
5 The the lists that we get range from mediocre to pretty good to excellent .
6 But in February , 1991 , he received a summons to appear before magistrates on an allegation that he owed £269.40 .
7 It was therefore with some disappointment that we faced Dad 's inquiries about them next morning .
8 If , however , I omit to do something with the result that it suffers injury to health which results in death , we think that a charge of manslaughter should not be an inevitable consequence , even if the omission is deliberate .
9 No pay was given for Bank Holidays , with the result that it took weeks to recover from the loss of income .
10 Mayer was never fond of Goldwyn and one day became so enraged with him in the showers of the Hillcrest Country Club that he knocked Goldwyn into the towel cabinet .
11 Knott had made it clear , it would seem , to the le Fleming estate agent that he wanted rights to all of the copper on the Coniston Manor , though without any success .
12 It was the day she made up her mind that she met Andrew on the Moor .
13 A WORRYING FACT Byatt told the Daily Mail that she considered John Major sexy .
14 Indeed , one might be wary of suggesting to a customer that an invoice is overdue for fear that he commit hari-kari immediately ( without paying first ) .
15 Got a sauce big saucepan that he has Sam has his food out of because erm Jake 's got a big dish .
16 So relaxed was Lucy that she offered Jay wine .
17 Big John McCormick had had a distinguished career in Scotland , where he had been on the verge of international honours while playing with now defunct Third Lanark and at Aberdeen , but it was , amazingly , as a makeweight that he came south to Crystal Palace .
18 It was only after being mobbed by newsmen that she showed emotion .
19 Bats may even use the sensations that we call colour for their own purposes , to represent differences in the world out there that have nothing to do with the physics of wavelength , but which play a functional role , for the bat , similar to the role that colours play to us .
20 Unless Yugoslav commanders receive some clear indication that we mean business in Austria their infiltration tactics will lead to an impossible situation . "
21 In this room , the marshal was the only one who gave any indication that she valued Susan above the worth of her Public Service .
22 which the House of Lords would have exercised if it had been asked to do so but had not in fact been so asked , Berry ( No. 2 ) would have been a very easy case for the Court of Appeal to deal with , but there is no indication that it found Berry ( No. 2 ) to be so simple .
23 Nevertheless , it is noteworthy from the annotation of their books that they use translations wherever possible ( as indeed I do myself , life being as short as it is ) .
24 In the event of circumstances arising under 1 or 2 above which require the Insurers to notify the Society of the reduction or cancellation of cover the Insurers shall during the period from such reduction or cancellation until ten days after notification of the Society indemnify the Society against losses to the same extent as if cover had not been reduced or cancelled and if the Society shall within seven days of notification by the Insurers inform the Insurers that it wishes cover to continue on the same terms as if it had not been reduced or cancelled the Insurers shall indemnify the Society against losses on such terms for such period not exceeding six months as the Society shall specify and the Society shall be responsible for the payment of premium for such cover .
25 I gave thanks that I had time and energy to simply enjoy and absorb .
26 The mission attracted further media coverage when the flight commander , Anatoly Artsebarsky , stated in a pre-launch interview that he believed Sharman 's male back-up , Maj. Timothy Mace , was better qualified for the trip and that it was " not a woman 's business to fly into space " .
27 A driver used to more power and rubber might expect to find himself in trouble if he attempted to maintain his normal pace with the cheapest Fiesta , but such is the confident poise of the car that it offers handling and grip of a far higher order than the tuned-for-economy engine can justify .
28 That is , the critics assert that there is significant inequality between men and women , and that for a woman to be married to a man does not mean that she gains all the privileges that he has access to .
29 It was n't till we were on the boat that I gave Oliver a thought , to be honest .
30 It was in Schiaparelli that she met Tricarico , who brought her aboard the Resplendent Trogon , which led her into the presence of Balthazar Plum — and if it had n't been for all that , she would never have acquired the Alice in the first place .
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