Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb base] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he 'd have to put that I remember one man that was counting like this , he used to count them by the three you know . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | And you know it is wrong to suggest that I 've any motives in that quarter because , between you and me , I ca n't stand the man . |
| 6 | Not that I 've any complaints about your two , do n't mistake me . |
| 7 | Not that I 've any complaints on that score , ’ he added . |
| 8 | Not that I 've any time for him any longer — going on like that when his poor wife was near her time . ’ |
| 9 | Not that I 've any time for that widow of his . |
| 10 | And she said well , I 'm see that I 've twenty second er I 'm sending him that , mum , to do my reference cos they 've got ta they 've got ta have that . |
| 11 | Er , the the the er er the fax in the first instance has been sent by a back bench member of this house who is not a minister , but I may tell the honourable gentleman that I get all sorts of things from mail shots inviting me to all er manner of functions , all of which find their way into the waste paper basket . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Oh no , I know that , I know that I mean some people find some things easy , some people find some things hard , do n't they ? |
| 14 | They say that I mean any changes any in temperature are very noticeable so w Like it is working in the middle of winter offshore would be something I would have to come to terms with but no I mean I do n't think there 's any problems work-wise . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | My diary records such incidents as , ‘ Had to eat another roll at breakfast , much to my disgust ’ , or ‘ M. insisted that I eat another piece of toast , so I walked out in disgust . ’ |
| 17 | Do you know that I eat little boys like you for breakfast ? " |
| 18 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 19 | I dislike them in the way that I dislike Pre-Raphaelite things . |
| 20 | It 's just that I hate that expression , that 's all . ’ |
| 21 | I ca n't say that I hate that shop , it stinks . |
| 22 | It is with great sadness that I write this letter having been informed of the possible demise of what can only be the most important publication since the Dead Sea Scrolls . |
| 23 | I proposed that I teach one woman what I knew so that she could teach the others after we got more machines . |
| 24 | I mean , every builder that I walk past whistles . |
| 25 | The people are very tolerant and it has been overheard that I speak better Portuguese than I do English . |
| 26 | Yes whether he was naked at the time of the arrest or or just er , what , what I 'm getting at is er that I put some trousers on Mr . |
| 27 | I 've just planted a seed that I know other people |
| 28 | Aside from the fact that I use this place for a specific purpose — a purpose that requires privacy , peace and quiet — it might lead to considerable misunderstandings . |
| 29 | To accurately imitate what I can see will require that I use smaller shapes than those used in other parts of the painting . |
| 30 | To accurately imitate what I can see will require that I use smaller shapes than those used in other parts of the painting . |