Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evergreen Gordon Strachan added his vote too , saying : ‘ He has taken a lot of stick and I know that feeling ; that sick-to-your stomach feeling after a costly mistake , like a missed penalty . |
| 2 | Now that my machine seems to be working tolerably well again , here is some news , along with renewed thanks for the welcome and lovely meals whilst I was with you — and I was of course interested and glad to meet and to know they would come and try and help with anything if you ring them . |
| 3 | And the argument that my reformers made against that was simply that where you have a huge number of people who are desperate for jobs , there 's no level below which the wages may not fall , under a free market system . |
| 4 | I hope that my painting stands beyond the moment ; I want it to be about the human situation rather than a fleeting moment in time or a specific view ’ . |
| 5 | Well , the answer is that my contract expires after six more commercials . |
| 6 | ‘ The Patriarch is pleased that my sugar-master comes from Damascus . |
| 7 | I have to tell you that my daughter wanted to erm an architect and when she told her , you know , careers teacher ‘ I want to be an architect ’ she was told ‘ oh , erm I do n't think that 's a very good idea , how about a nurse ? ’ . |
| 8 | I found the big difficulty in socialising was that my friends lived in another part of London . |
| 9 | One benefit deriving from advancing years is that my clerk diverts to others briefs that are devoid of interest . |
| 10 | The chances are that my friend belongs to a least one of more than 30 SUSA clubs and societies , ranging from ‘ Ballroom Dancing ’ to the ‘ Balls Juggling Club ’ and may watch the odd ( often in more ways than one ) movie at the SUSA ‘ Film Circle ’ . |
| 11 | It was in this way that my friend confided in me when she dreamed , with great clarity , that she had been present at her own funeral gathering . |
| 12 | It is the first time I have gone ahead and openly done something that my parents disapprove of . |
| 13 | ‘ I remember that my invitation extended to 14 days , but it was so arranged that any visitor who might have to leave for the day could do so and could return again . |
| 14 | ‘ I was chubby even as a baby and it was n't helped as a child by the fact that my mum believed in always feeding me up and rewarding everything with sweets . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I know that my sister disappeared from home in March , 1934 . ’ |
| 16 | Not for the first — or last — time in my life , I wished that my name began with a W and not a B ! |
| 17 | ‘ It is surprising that my stepmother resorted to something like that . |
| 18 | I remember that my chest swelled with pride the day Mrs Smelley , who owned a boarding house in the Commercial Road , told me that I was a chip off the old block and that in her opinion one day I might even be as good as my Granpa . |
| 19 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 20 | My breasts were developing fast and I was ashamed to see that my nipples showed through the material . |
| 21 | Bob ; Yeh , It 's in band D which means that my house comes between 45 and 58,000 , |
| 22 | Were n't , although erm I was told that my father died of that so that er , I should do you mind |
| 23 | ‘ I feel proud that my father came from this city , ’ she said slowly . |
| 24 | He always liked to tell me things about my lover that my lover kept from me . |
| 25 | I know now that my letter fell into de Raimes ’ hands . |
| 26 | It was one of the first recipes that my husband attempted in his bachelor days . |
| 27 | SEAN HUGHES ( comedian ) : ‘ I never got over the fact that my penis looked like Bobby Charlton . |
| 28 | What I gather from the photo reproduced in Il Giornale dell'Arte is that my sin consists of using hanging cloths . |
| 29 | What I w what I will say to my honourable , my right honourable friend is that er when I recently visited the United States I did find that the , on which our training and enterprise councils have been based , have provided a very valuable experience for us in learning the lessons that he had indicated of ensuring that the private sector is fully involved in decisions over training and I believe that the figure I gave to my honourable friend early today , combined with over two billion that my department spends on training , forms a very effective public private sector partnership . |
| 30 | I have worked long and hard to ensure that my children want for nothing . " |