Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's paragraph seventeen , eighteen and the additional item added by Miss about a report to the April meeting on what action can be taken to implement the District Auditor 's recommendations , and from what we 've heard I think that report will also contain reference to today 's , the correct response to today 's Government four papers erm , on the policy with regard to the Rio summit . |
| 2 | No future governments of whatever political persuasion , erm er I I fear have let me begin that point again . |
| 3 | Sadly he rejected this dual instruction and was lost on a low-level marking attack that , had Cochrane been aware that Gibson was not checked out at Warboys , his AOC would have forbidden him to fly that night . |
| 4 | in his arms and treat and Mr Bumble rushed into the room with great excitement and addressed the gentleman in the high chair said I beg your pardon sir , Oliver Twist has asked for more , there was a for more said compose yourself Bumble and do I understand that he asked for more after he 'd eaten supper he did sir replied Bumble , that boy would be hung I know that boy will be hung |
| 5 | She was tired , Carolyn reflected , she 'd missed her sleep that morning because of Mum and Dad . |
| 6 | Having decided they had that power , they decided not to exercise it and made no order under that section . |
| 7 | " Funny , being a bird-watcher , " a boy called Cosgrave had once said and Stephen had made him take that back , twisting his arm until he agreed to . |
| 8 | She had been aching for him since she had first seen him straddling that bike with such lazy arrogance . |
| 9 | What on earth had possessed her to volunteer that information ? she wondered numbly . |
| 10 | I 'm sure sh you know she would have been in dire trouble er only for my mother having seen her limping that day , but that 's the sort of thing she would do . |
| 11 | I 've just seen her going that way , and I 've just seen skinny Mick that she used to go out with a she had baby to , coming this way . |
| 12 | Perhaps the court would have accepted it had that stipulation been explicit . |
| 13 | That Act One marriage scene — I do n't think I 've ever seen it played that way before , as a comedy number . ’ |
| 14 | The frequency of such bids has made it seem that stockmarket valuations are arbitrary , that bidders are stealing money from somebody else rather than creating wealth , and that American and British managers spend too much time shuffling assets and too little investing ( that is , building factories ) for the future . |
| 15 | " And I would n't have said a word , ducky , if I had n't heard you phoning that doctor . " |
| 16 | We 've also got you know that kind of a your national government what not that higher level . |
| 17 | She said she 'd got him to agree that day and it was no use arguing because it was her price for keeping her promise to be silent about her work on the other paintings . ’ |
| 18 | He has invited you to review that hotel 's operations with a view to restoring its position prior to any such sale . |
| 19 | You had n't remembered you had that gun , last time . ’ |
| 20 | But the demon which had driven him to drink that night , after months of abstinence , had him in its thrall . |
| 21 | She had heard him use that tone of voice in the past and knew exactly what it meant . |
| 22 | ‘ She would often come and have an afternoon cup of tea with me and then pick my brain as to what BA had asked me to do that morning . |
| 23 | ‘ Certain highly technical factors , intelligible only to the expert and with which I will not take up the time of this inquest , have led me to conclude that Subject A had been dead for more than nine years and less than twelve . |
| 24 | At St Martin 's she had imagined him crossing that limit but his mind refusing to accept the memory of it . |
| 25 | No woman had ever caused him to make that kind of mistake before . |
| 26 | As to the teaching profession , he said that he could have wished me to have obtained a less demanding post , if I wanted to write , because his experience at Highgate School had led him to believe that teaching , if conscientiously undertaken , was one of the most exhausting of occupations ; and , though I do not regret the experience , I was to discover that regarding its rigours he was right . |
| 27 | Mr Denton has asked us to stress that flexibility must be the order of the day . |
| 28 | Just consider the idea that fear is a hungry creature that wants to feed off our energy and see how easily it has trained us to provide that nourishment at the push of an idea . |
| 29 | I 've never heard it described that way before but there you go er |
| 30 | How often have I begged you to keep that temper of yours in check . |