Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following day , Dr John Greg of the Medical Research Council tried to tell us that contact with small quantities of dioxins was harmless when he stated in The Independent that 5,000 ppt is a safe level for bleached paper products . |
| 2 | Yes , in one five , erm they 're practising notes from Eynsham it does happen to be in Cherwell ward and not North ward , erm there is a booklet out about health and housing in Cutteslowe , and I wondered what the connection between , you know , not being on this committee , but these health action areas , and what in fact is happening in housing , because the director did assure me that other wards were going to be treated to the same erm treatment . |
| 3 | Delta had taught him that fear was all in the mind . |
| 4 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 5 | If for example the result of acoustic front end processing on the word actually was out by a single feature , ( either through error , or just because the speaker had pronounced it that way ) , and reported the string the match would fail , even if the information following the allowed the word actually to be hypothesized with a fair degree of confidence . |
| 6 | He said that a recent report in New Scientist that the Turin lead experiment had been censored , coupled with the conversion of several eminent scientists to the anti-lead cause had convinced him that action was urgent . |
| 7 | Being one of the few local boys who had gone to grammar school had given him that extra confidence early in life . |
| 8 | And achieved , what was more , almost entirely by her own efforts — even her stepfather had granted her that . |
| 9 | Erm but the most unfortunate thing that Old Edward the the old chap who owned the place he was living in part of the house and Old Jane , his housekeeper , my mother she could bake bread and wash , her mother had taught her that , but it was making butter that was the problem . |
| 10 | My mother had taught me that , just as she had taught me to change my underclothes daily and not blow my nose in public . |
| 11 | But he had not asked after her ; unsuspected questioning of her mother had told her that . |