Example sentences of "that [noun] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she worked the crochet table-mats her mother had ordered , the intricate sequence of stitches could blot out for a moment or two the scenes that daily since that Easter feast she had staged between herself and Tommaso Talvi . |
| 2 | So I stayed in and felt shivery although after you get used to being out of hospital you do feel better for breathing real air — without all that disinfectant stuff I mean . |
| 3 | ‘ Hope it 's not that ghost train they keep talking about . ’ |
| 4 | Oh Lemmings and that computer game I wanted . |
| 5 | If I 'd have thought about it , that wedding cake she give me |
| 6 | Give us that cracker thing I put this , where 's this , where your dad put the screws ? |
| 7 | She gave a hoarse moan of resistance and desire , pushing at his broad shoulders as his strong hands pressed her hips closer to his body , and as she felt that mouth claiming hers with deeper passion , and felt the evidence of his hard excitement , she felt her body clamouring for more , her eyes closing and her mouth moving under his hungrily , little gasps of shocked desire coming from the back of her throat . |
| 8 | I 'm recording you on that tape machine I think . |
| 9 | Elise Fox was a woman who prided herself on her ability to deal with crisis , but at eleven o'clock that Saturday night she still lay limp on the sofa in the flat , looking utterly shattered when her young sister came in from the kitchen with yet another pot of strong black coffee . |
| 10 | That Saturday evening she joined the passeggiata , with her hair pulled flat against her skull to smooth its crinkles and bring out its sheen , and the gold medallion of the Madonna she had received for her first communion hanging bright against the new pale shawl she had crocheted herself . |
| 11 | ‘ That Friday night we just sat there rocking her backwards and forwards and crying . |
| 12 | At eleven o'clock that Friday night they arrived in Montrose . |
| 13 | That Friday night he picked her up at the airport and brought her home , but fifteen minutes after they got there , ‘ some guys showed up to sell Seth cocaine . |
| 14 | I mean er , I did n't like er that Friday night it were hor horrible shift , cos half the time you used to turn up , only half a team would turn up and you 'd be expected to do |
| 15 | As a matter of fact , before I left on that Friday evening I bought a painting from her — The Blind Gypsy — for my mother 's birthday . ’ |
| 16 | For had it not been raining so hard on that Tuesday evening I would have arrived at the Philharmonia Hall in good time . |
| 17 | How can I communicate that auditory shock , that dumbstruck astonishment I experienced as one of the first privileged listeners … |
| 18 | It 's a bit like , it 's the same sort of idea as that sleeping bag you 've got , you know , little short dashes of paint |
| 19 | I 've tried that chewing gum you get but it still did n't stop me . |
| 20 | The day after that telephone call he paid his hotel bill and left by taxi for the main station . |
| 21 | Since that July day I have visited the City on numerous occasions … connected directly or indirectly to asking the City for help with fund-raising . |
| 22 | There 's a nice little car up here , that Chevrolet thing I do n't know who 's selling it like , du n no how much it is even but it 's a nice little car . |
| 23 | I think you were shocked just now to discover the remnants of a warm human being still surviving within that ice palace you 've constructed around you . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The whole story 's in that exercise book I found . ’ |
| 25 | Whereas here and in that range name it 's still referring to row twenty six . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd just like to bump into that Potter fellow she 's always on about . ’ |
| 27 | Is n't that Giles Carnaby you 're with ? |
| 28 | The first twenty five minutes , when you think we were one nil up right I thought gosh if we could get that second goal it would have made all the difference and United would have been really would have been in trouble . |
| 29 | It was on that second voyage he encountered the Odonata . |
| 30 | There has been a steady rise in the number of women returners and ‘ apart from women who do not want to let go of that career , there are all the millions of women faced with the fact that either their income will enormously increase the lifestyle of their family or without that second income they will be very hard pushed to cover the basics . |