Example sentences of "that [pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is feared , ’ ’ Albert read , in an embarrassed mutter , ‘ ‘ that 'is brain 'as suffered damage . ’ ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The first thing I decided was that my hair had to come off . ’ |
| 3 | She is worried about me not eating , she is worried that my periods have stopped , that I look thinner and thinner , that my hair has gone dry and flat and rasps like paper when you touch it , but she also admires me . |
| 4 | Q I 've just had my first perm and I 'm a bit disappointed that my hair has lost its shine . |
| 5 | ‘ Would it be enough , ’ he whispered , ‘ if I told you I will love you for all time , that my heart has found its resting place , and my soul has found its mate ? |
| 6 | Have you not noticed that my life has changed ? |
| 7 | You could see that my attack had taken him completely by surprise . |
| 8 | Now , erm , the situation there was that my vicar came to see me and , erm , what happened was that we 've got three churches well luckily , one of them only has about twelve in it another has eighty and another sixty and he said well what did he do about Rushdie ? |
| 9 | It was while I was in this slough of despond that my publisher rang to ask if I would like to read a manuscript that needed transforming into a readable book before it could be published . |
| 10 | Of course all I needed was a two-minute sit-down and in two and a half minutes I was not only fully recovered and ready to carry on , I had adrenalin pumping out the top of my hat in anger that my man had left me to die . |
| 11 | that my work has turned out to be medically relevant , but it might not have done , and that would n't have meant that it was useless or wasted . |
| 12 | Nature Boy , on the other hand , funks along in a pleasant style and a vocal that my flatmate swears says ‘ funky nibbles ’ , but then he 's mad . |
| 13 | The place that my landlord had recommended was the Palace Hotel . |
| 14 | It was not only that my grandmother had given birth to and brought up eight children , and with the help of a Mrs Pipkin ( whose wages were ten shillings a week and an egg ) run a large house for many years ; there was the shop , and shops in those days were by no means labour-saving . |
| 15 | If it is that I do not , on the grounds that had I heard about the invitation my justification would have been defeated , you have a duty to give some account of why the ( unknown to me ) truth that my wife has refused the invitation does not somehow redress the balance . |
| 16 | Out of the contemporary turmoil of Hindu tradition Rabindranath Tagore wrote of the same mysterious sources of renewal : I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power — that the path before me was closed , that provisions were exhausted and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity . |
| 17 | He frowned and sucked on his cigarette and I somehow got the impression that my question had annoyed him , but when he answered his voice was mild enough . |
| 18 | ‘ The reason I 'm calling , actually , is that my wallet seems to have disappeared and I wondered whether I could possibly have left it there . ’ |
| 19 | I gave them their full due , repeating all that my sister-in-law had said , and told them that I would hear from my brother himself that evening , then paid for my groceries and made my escape . |
| 20 | Now that my divorce has come through we thought it was time to tell people that we were getting married and start seeing each other openly . |
| 21 | And there was a memo to John from yourself , tenth of Jan , that my manager has passed to me , it said you 'd given two options that you could go in on Saturday and erm |
| 22 | I think that my image has appeared because it is me , I have not manufactured anything . |
| 23 | He is full of life an has brought home with him a number of foreign servants so that my house seems to have been removed to Paris . |
| 24 | Far from seeking to gain political advantage , all that my Group have tried to do is to continue with a long-held policy on disability . |
| 25 | I knew then that my end had come for surely it was the Man who had put the trap on the pole to catch me . |
| 26 | Sometimes I can tell from my clothes that my weight has changed , either up or down , but it does n't fill me with panic or even very much interest . |
| 27 | I have been lucky that my condition has progressed more slowly than is often the case . |
| 28 | When they asked him where it was that my father had wanted to build the gallery , he said something like , ‘ Well , you know , it 's that place near the pond between the pond and the obelisk ’ , meaning the Washington Monument and the Reflecting Pool . |
| 29 | And I have lots of letters which I discovered about five years ago , which I thought were probably letters that my father had written it , Adam , because his name and my grandfather 's name were exactly the same . |
| 30 | When we were about nine and ten and a half we had somebody living in because there were an awful lot of evening meetings that my father had to go to and usually mother went with him . |