Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at Seto More 's house on Jervis Street that I experienced Chinese hospitality at first hand . |
| 2 | Before passing to it , I should say that I heard oral evidence from Mr. Mahmoud , called on behalf of C.T. , and from Mr. Joseph Kasner , the director of the landlord . |
| 3 | IT was in July that I announced Leeds-born superchef Marco-Pierre White was to marry his second wife , beautiful 19-year-old London model Lisa Butcher , after a whirlwind courtship . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's not my style , Ian — you should realise that I set great store by not creating ‘ scenes ’ ; by not making those that I esteem suffer any unnecessary discomfort , whether it be social , physical , or otherwise . ’ |
| 5 | I remember now that I saw neat features , a nose a little hooked , and a very good figure . |
| 6 | ‘ It must sometimes be the case that I bring British fish back to London , but it will probably be in better condition than if it had been bought there as foreign agents insist on good transport and packing . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The end result is that I 've large arrears on the centre 's mortgage , and now the building society is threatening repossession in the new year , unless we can clear the arrears . |
| 8 | It is not that I wore sleeveless blouses they were always long sleeved and not Choli 's either but even then they disliked it . |
| 9 | Well , I did it alone , just with the help of Crossroads , and the district nurse in , in the mornings , five days a week and really that is all the help I had , except that I get domestic staff myself , and any help that I need , I have to pay for . |
| 10 | By that I mean book-signing sessions — I 've been all over the place , from Darlington and Beverley in the North , to as far as Nottingham in the South , and met some wonderful people — and literary luncheons , plus what I suppose you could call ‘ personal appearances ’ at all kinds of functions . |
| 11 | Do you know that I eat little boys like you for breakfast ? " |
| 12 | I dislike them in the way that I dislike Pre-Raphaelite things . |
| 13 | Last month I went back over the past 40 years of owning knitting machines and described some of the ways that I made sufficient money for the machines to pay for themselves . |
| 14 | I mean , every builder that I walk past whistles . |
| 15 | I 've just planted a seed that I know other people |
| 16 | I saw that I had new books by my bedside . |
| 17 | On page 37 of his volume of reminiscences [ Burton was to write in an article on rugby ] , Mr Williams is kind enough to suggest that I had distinct possibilities as a player were it not for the lure of tinsel and paint and money and fame and so on . |
| 18 | I did not say that I had irrefutable evidence . |
| 19 | When I played in the Wimbledon final , I knew that I had certain kinds of weaknesses . |
| 20 | I was invited to join in but always found excuses not to do so , saying that I had early afternoon lessons . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , just as we were on the verge of starting an affair , he heard that I had other irons in the fire . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It was just that I had other things on my mind . |
| 23 | And it meant that I had free access to the whole of the so much so , I had a key to the bottom of entry in er access to the firm and I could get in when I liked . |
| 24 | It seemed all wrong that I had horizontal loops across the face of the work . |
| 25 | Mum had a habit , whenever she sent me any distance on an errand , of insisting that I had clean bloomers on , ‘ in case yer get knocked down by a 'orse ’ , which was why I was scared of them . |
| 26 | It was a very great shock to me to discover that I had motor neurone disease . |
| 27 | The only snag was that I had bad after-effects from the anaesthetic . |
| 28 | The purpose of the visit was to have a private audience with the Pope and also to visit the departments in the Vatican that I had particular interest in . |
| 29 | In those days before the National Health Service , one did not run off to the doctor except in real emergencies ; but , at this juncture , my mother , noticing that I showed unusual signs of debility , urged me to seek medical advice . |
| 30 | The example that I tried changed gear with a jerk and was too eager to change up as I slowed down . |