Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] that [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 2 | Hard on the heels of that distinction we learnt in March that two Fellows , Carole Jordan , astrophysicist and physics tutor , and Louise Johnson , had been elected Fellows of the Royal Society , the only two women on the 1990 list . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've done it again , ’ she said , twisting her lips in that way she had of showing disappointment with herself . |
| 4 | ‘ The middle six hours of that day we passed in waiting . |
| 5 | Miss Jeanette told how in the early hours of that day she had gone with Nichol to a nearby beauty spot and they tried unsuccessfully to have sex . |
| 6 | At one of the effects of that delay I suspect has been the need for the supplementary estimate which is measured , er mentioned in part B. |
| 7 | Living off the proceeds of that bestseller you wrote , Kruger : The Computer That Failed ? ’ |
| 8 | But then , in matters of that sort it was always the same , and thinking of Charley , she began to cry . |
| 9 | To understand the reasons behind that agreement we must look more loosely at the context in which it was made . |
| 10 | Twenty years after that holiday I read in the Scotsman one morning that a St Abbs fisherman had hauled in his nets and landed a complete suit of sixteenth-century armour . |
| 11 | A few weeks after that incident we received a so-called hot tipoff that an illegal immigrant run was to be made the following night " somewhere between the Thames and Lowestoft ! " |
| 12 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 13 | In the closing days of that year she could only hope and pray that whoever was responsible for Liza 's unnatural behaviour would have helped to improve it by the next time she saw her . |
| 14 | This was our one holiday a year and 3 days of that holiday I was on the phone . |
| 15 | All I want now is to get this 'ere wallet into the mitts of that geezer I do n't like the look of . ’ |
| 16 | It was fresh from the margins of that land he 'd first suspected in New York . |
| 17 | Norman was called upon , he was standing on the rock just behind Issaacs , swaying on his hips in that way he has , with his face turned up to the night . |
| 18 | And why there should be such a change these days in that line I , I , I ca n't quite agree with it . |
| 19 | I have no interest to declare in the construction industry , but during my first 10 years in that industry I worked for John Laing , then I worked for Wimpey for about eight years , and I was the head of the largest direct labour organisation in the country — the Greater London council — for nearly three years . |
| 20 | Eleven years down that path he now has a far greater appreciation of dogs and the people who handle them professionally . |
| 21 | Over the years since that occasion I have often wondered why I did what I decided to do . |
| 22 | I do n't know whether Mr Rocke fell in love with the Yorkshire moors on a visit to Wakefield for that exhibition ; but for most of the years since that time he has lived and worked in Yorkshire as senior art adviser to the West Riding County Council . |
| 23 | If anyone alive was not in need of cheek-roses at that moment it was Mr Cottle . |
| 24 | Quality control , I mean er client satisfaction , things of that sort I 'm not quite sure what he 's into . |
| 25 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 26 | Well when you see things like that happening you can afford to have faith ten feet tall ! |
| 27 | they sell things like that shop they closed down . |
| 28 | could draw it up to a a thousand pounds on that card I mean |
| 29 | I told you I went and looked that up not long ago , things at that price they only guarantee them for six months . |
| 30 | You know ’ he added thoughtfully ‘ if she 's keeping any secrets in that place she 's not trying very hard with a back-door lock like that . |