Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] that [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You 're that teacher woman who once came here to see me , are n't you ? ’ he said . |
2 | What they all tell you is that doing business and controlling credit overseas is much the same as it is at home except that it is more complicated and expensive . |
3 | Could it be that Sun Microsystems Inc president Scott McNealy 's voice is being heard this side of the Atlantic , after he reportedly told Novell Inc 's Ray Noorda to fire everyone at Unix System Labs except a handful of marketing guys and the engineers ? |
4 | It 's that Ripper bloke they 're all going on about . |
5 | People around me stated ‘ Oh hell , it 's that poncy twat from The Smiths that loves flowers . ’ |
6 | It 's that back yard . |
7 | Ken himself always said that it was a modernized version of the kind of radio entertainment that Tommy Handley had brought with his famous wartime comedy series , ITMA ( ‘ It 's That Man Again' ) . |
8 | ‘ It 's that bastard Nazi who 's trapped . ’ |
9 | It 's on look , it 's that colour lipstick |
10 | Cos when he knocked on door and I thought oh I wonder if it 's that parcel midi hi-fi system I 'm |
11 | Unless it 's that cooker thing , I think her cooker 's there . |
12 | It 's that Mayday bank holiday . |
13 | Beneath it there 's a Sun cartoon of a chap being polled on his doorstep : ‘ I think Kinnock is marvellous , ’ he says , ‘ it 's that windbag husband of hers I ca n't stand . ’ ) |
14 | It 's that masking tape bloody company again in er , Newcastle |
15 | ‘ It 's that kangaroo juice he puts in the engine , ’ Terry teased her after she had started from outside the house in a series of jumps . |
16 | It 's that ballet dancer . |
17 | ‘ It is not my window , it is that good-for-nothing Sunil 's window . ’ |
18 | When she had finished she said to Piers , to hide her confusion , ‘ I — I always think how odd it is that turtle soup does n't taste of turtle . ’ |
19 | Hence , the smaller the amount of equity the more likely it is that debt holders may have to bear some part of any losses . |
20 | there are advantages erm and quite honestly if erm er the way I put it is that salary company car and BUPA and all that sort of thing |
21 | IF THERE is one political lesson which recent events have underlined in Africa , South East Asia and Latin America , it is that peasant armies waging guerilla wars all end up committing the same sort of brutalities , whatever the flag they fight under . |
22 | Although it was never stated so baldly , one implication of the Samuelson-Solow and Lipsey approach is that , since is the target rate of unemployment , it is , in essence , the full employment rate of unemployment : it is that unemployment rate which the authorities regard as attainable , sustainable and , taking the good with the bad , ‘ correct ’ . |
23 | It is important to grasp what it was that peace activists thought they were trying to prevent . |
24 | It was that phone call that sent me up the cul-de-sac . |
25 | The book represents an attempt to explain the series of unexpected corporate failures over the past few years and why it was that company accounts do not appear to have given adequate warning of what was to happen . |
26 | It was that Southeast Asia was ‘ the target of a co-ordinated offensive plainly directed by the Kremlin ’ . |
27 | ‘ It was that truck driver who was intent on murder , ’ Monica interjected grimly . |
28 | Everton 's crisp passing bewildered Tottenham , and it was that fellow Beardsley running the show . |
29 | It was that murder mystery thing on last night was n't it ? |
30 | Thus it was that youth unemployment brought about , or at the very least greatly hastened , ‘ the new FE ’ , and with it the spread of courses for students with moderate learning difficulties . |