Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb base] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Do you know that I eat little boys like you for breakfast ? " |
| 7 | I dislike them in the way that I dislike Pre-Raphaelite things . |
| 8 | I mean , every builder that I walk past whistles . |
| 9 | I 've just planted a seed that I know other people |
| 10 | There are a couple of things regarding the printouts that I think new users may find a bit confusing . |
| 11 | One of the reasons , Brian , is that I think German history is too important to be left to the German historians . |
| 12 | ‘ Not , ’ Gaily said , worried , ‘ not that I meet bad people . |
| 13 | You can usually tell a good Fender before you plug it in , and I 've got to say that acoustically the SRV is one of the loudest and most solid-sounding Strats I 've come across ( and in that I include non-trem Strats , which usually sound better under these conditions ) . |
| 14 | Now awareness of other persons similarly depends on synthesizing perception of their bodies with imagining and feeling from their viewpoints , and awareness of myself on synthesizing imagination of my body from other viewpoints with perceiving and feeling from my own ; otherwise I would become , to vary Ryle 's dictum that the mind has been commonly conceived as ‘ a ghost in a machine ’ , a ghost in the company of machines , no longer aware that I resemble other people in the respects in which they resemble each other . |
| 15 | ‘ Anyhow , you probably waited until I was home to ring me because you know that I work full stretch at the office . ’ |
| 16 | Not that I disapprove rural Pleasures , as the Poets have painted them ; in their Landschape every Phillis has her Coridon , every murmuring Stream , and every flowry Mead gives fresh Alarms to Love . |
| 17 | I should like to make it clear to the House that I accept full responsibility for the actions taken in this case by officials of the Home Office and by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary , who dealt with it . |
| 18 | In reply to the hon. Gentleman 's last point , I can say that I have complete confidence in my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary . |
| 19 | However I must , once again , admit that I have certain problems with applying my brain to this situation . |
| 20 | Erm yes you you you 'll know from my evidence that I have certain reservations about the detailed wording of this of this particular criteria . |
| 21 | Here also is a new Member , Nick Hawkins ( Member for Blackpool South and a leading member of the Bow Group ) : ‘ From my involvement in European matters , I believe that I should say that I have great misgivings about the decision I will ultimately make tonight to support the Government and to support the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 22 | I may say that I have great confidence in Doctor Maingay 's judgement in such matters . |
| 23 | So I would ask nicely that I have petty cash of say thirty pounds , which out of I would buy , or pay the cleaners ' wages , and any minor expenses that come my way . |
| 24 | I say at once that I have considerable sympathy with justices called upon to comply with rule 21(6) of the Family Proceedings Courts ( Children Act 1989 ) Rules 1991 . |
| 25 | ‘ It is simply that I have different ideas than the gentlemen who give places to men … . ’ . |
| 26 | I also take some comfort from the fact that I have enormous pleasure in remembering all those who I dealt with in this capacity returned to the Pathfinder Force before the end and wished sincerely to finish their Pathfinder tour . |
| 27 | She said : ‘ I think people will realise now that I have true ability . |
| 28 | ‘ What no-one can deny is that I have Scottish blood in me , and I have always known it was there ’ , he said . |
| 29 | Now whenever I speak , this provides grounds for believing that I have vocal chords ; but it does not express that fact . |
| 30 | The Principal , a frightful piece of lava from a volcano long extinct , actually insisted that I relinquish domestic tuition , simperingly permitted the murky phrase sexual harassment to hover in the air between us , and indicated that in the course of the aestival recess he might be reconsidering the terms and conditions of my employment . |