Example sentences of "that [unc] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Without waiting for a reply , she put her head into the room and said in that all-things-bright-and-beautiful voice she reserved for her mother-in-law , which Greg found grating even on first acquaintance : ‘ I 've got a lovely surprise for you , Mother dear . |
2 | " And let it be said , " Harry went on , " now we 're talking straight , that Miss Jennifer here can forget all the Romish ideas she was fed on down at Roscarrock Hall and start eating Protestant pie , which she 'll find suits a Cornish stomach a sight better than all that hocus-pocus-nomminy-domminy rubbish they peddle down at Holy Joe 's . |
3 | Here is Collimore Phillips down the right flank he was offside that was unlucky from Forest 's point of view and Collimore dumped to the ground when he played the ball away then and er he 's just holding er his shin just above his ankle there and Cooper is still in trouble from that er shoulder he injured moments ago Cooper 's all right to continue and the Forest physio Graham Myers busy treating Collimore . |
4 | Yeah I bought that er Surf I use now . |
5 | It will have to be for us at least twenty one days , that 's the absolute rock bottom minimum I would have thought therefore the French I suspect have us over a barrel and we would have to cough up for the enormous expenditure of an extra building at Strasbourg which is not needed erm as I understand it er that er view I savoured I do n't erm have the details of that . |
6 | Well no it does n't sound by that er letter you wrote . |
7 | I think that would depend on the species would n't it and the , and the local conditions , for example in that erm case I mentioned in yesterday 's lecture monogamous birds with long breeding groups where you get desertion . |
8 | I I got to that erm question you know you said could n't do any the geometry do the rest . |
9 | so that 's English , and I 've got ta get , er he reckons he 'll get a B grade for the er lit , but I was so cheesed off with that erm piece I got today , thirty five and thirty five , one mark off being er an A , he put at the bottom aargh , if only you 'd seen the lousy ending , cos he said if I 'd got the , an extra couple of sentences it er would of been forty eight , forty , so that 's , so annoying , but I 've now got ta write an informal letter , I do n't know how that comes under informal letter |