Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very sad to report that the entire actuarial staff of the Society was in bed before midnight and that everyone appeared with rosy complexion and clear eyes the following morning … |
| 2 | ( The only failures at innovation that I saw in high-tech firms occurred when the manager thought he or she already had so much power that coalition building was unnecessary . ) |
| 3 | Erm , is that okay for that I just have something that I read in New Scientist does everybody take it ? |
| 4 | He knows the representation that I made with other colleagues only a fortnight ago . |
| 5 | God did many things in my life and in the lives of friends that I made in different places . |
| 6 | One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind . |
| 7 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 8 | These proposals and many more formed the basis of legislation following the 1987 general election — as too did the model report from Dame Mary Warnock that I commissioned into human fertilization and embryology . |
| 9 | That was not my figure ; it was given by a senior Soviet spokesman at a conference in Vienna that I attended with other Ministers of the Interior at the beginning of this year . |
| 10 | erm I mean it 's interesting the lessons that Queenie learnt — the lesson that I learnt from French local government is that erm the French believe in local government , and they put their money where their mouth is . |
| 11 | Of these , the set that I selected for careful examination within the main projects is the ( pull ) set , which deals with alternation between [ u ] and [ Δ ] in a set of lexical items such as pull , put , foot , shook . |
| 12 | An incident at the fair in 1 920 always caused the family great amusement , although I felt , and still feel , that I acted with great aplomb . |
| 13 | It 's about er ten years ago nearly that I er stopped being a teacher and when I was a teacher er up having to do assemblies er it was always something that I did with great reluctance and er was er pleased if I could get other people to do it er it seems rather odd then er that I 've actually said yes coming to do er an assembly here today and it 's perhaps a sign of mental instability on my part . |
| 14 | I was so frightened you 'd walk out of my life again that I sank to ignominious depths to keep you close to me . ’ |
| 15 | The Minister referred to the figures that I gave on regional assistance . |
| 16 | She had told him that Brenda was obsessively vegetarian , and that she longed for red meat : would he take her out ? |
| 17 | Now that she knew for certain that she could n't marry him , her first impulse was to call him up and tell him so . |
| 18 | What is medically certain is that she died of coronary thrombosis : there is no question of any foul play , except of course if the heart attack was brought on by the shock of finding someone in her room stealing the jewel she had come all the way from America to hand over to the Ashmolean Museum , or more specifically to Dr Theodore Kemp on behalf of the Museum . |
| 19 | The inquest heard that she died from multiple injuries . |
| 20 | She was so furious that she drove with exaggerated care back to Kalkara , in case she crashed into someone in her distracted state . |
| 21 | It roused her violently by its unexpectedness , and she made no protest when his arms went round her and he kissed her with a force and a recklessness that she met with equal need . |
| 22 | She liked her guests to see and hear the efficient way that she dealt with difficult situations . |
| 23 | Did you know that she dealt in stolen goods , arranged thefts and then fenced the goods , did you know she arranged insurance for many of the smaller shopkeepers — her kind of insurance ? |
| 24 | Even though the table excludes those unable to give an appropriate answer on both occasions the answers which were given could mean a variety of different things ; for example , that the respondent really was feeling worried when she said so , or that she thought ‘ worried ’ meant something else , or that she thought the answer meant something else , or that she answered at random . |
| 25 | The very fact that terms like ‘ dissenter ’ and ‘ nonconformist ’ made no sense in America shows the attraction that she held for English Nonconformists : America to them was what England might become . |
| 26 | The court was told that she dabbled in black magic and tried summoning messages from the spirit world by using a ouija board . |
| 27 | like those certain games that you played at certain seasons of the year . |
| 28 | She asked after you and was pleased when I told her how well your business was doing and that you seemed in good spirits since she said she had been anxious for you . |
| 29 | As the Minister responsible at the time , let me tell the hon. Gentleman that we went to great lengths to minimise the disruption caused in classrooms by the provision of necessary training related to the introduction of education reforms . |
| 30 | I can remember first motorcar that we drove in old Charlie 's . |