Example sentences of "that [prep] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should say that about sums it up , ’ she said drily , and turned her attention back to her patient , leaving explanations to the others . |
| 2 | In the absence of any data on assimilation the DES ( 1984b ) fitted two models — No Assimilation and Full Assimilation — and prefer the former on the grounds that for males it appeared to fit the experience of the past ten years rather better . |
| 3 | Though I can see that for others it 's toy ducks in the bath . ’ |
| 4 | Thus I claim that for decades we have attempted to change the nature of the art in order to meet the requirements of child-centred education — and have felt guilty because it does not work . |
| 5 | Bob Mays had to confront the fact that for years he had been loving someone else 's daughter . |
| 6 | He died in 1637 but it appears that for years he was something of a figure in the district . |
| 7 | It was imagined that like lizards it went on all fours ; bones were mounted this way in museums , and at the Great Exhibition of 1851 hollow model dinosaurs were made to entertain the public . |
| 8 | ‘ We plant cabbages , ’ said Wordsworth in a letter , ‘ and if retirement in its full perfection be as powerful in working transformations as one of Ovid 's gods , you may perhaps suspect that into cabbages we shall be transformed . ’ |
| 9 | In small group discussions , men suggested that with women they actually meet , physical attractiveness is of fleeting importance . |
| 10 | He complained that with computers he did n't get to pick his own bombing targets any more . |
| 11 | But , when Nigel comes next year he 'll bring Eileen and I think that under circumstances I think if we say well come for about quarter to two . |
| 12 | Which means that from Slains they took some old route perhaps across the Moss of Cruden , then crossed where the A92 runs now , and from the modern A950 , or a comparable road , went up to Strichen through the Forest of Deer : today 's byroads may have been old lanes or drovers ' trails . |
| 13 | He has variously claimed that from farts he can tell not only what people have eaten or drunk , but also the sort of person they are , what they ought to eat , whether they are emotionally unstable or upset , whether they are keeping secrets , laughing at you behind your back or trying to ingratiate themselves with you , and even what they are thinking about at the precise moment they issue the fart ( this largely from the sound ) . |
| 14 | It still did n't hit me that within hours we would have a baby : I vaguely felt I was immersed in some surreal soap-dream that constantly receded back into itself . |
| 15 | The point that in dreams we see things ‘ as existing at a great distance ’ indicates that this objection can be answered , but he acknowledges that some explanation is needed . |
| 16 | The climb was so steep that in places it could be made only with the help of ropes . |
| 17 | Its companion , Alcor or 80 Ursæ Majoris , is of magnitude 4.0 , and is easily visible with the naked eye ; the angular distance between the two is 11.8 minutes of arc , so that in binoculars they make a noble pair . |
| 18 | Arcturus can be found by following round the curve of Ursa Major , but it is in any case quite unmistakable ; it has a K-type spectrum , and is a lovely light orange , so that in binoculars it is beautiful . |
| 19 | It seems likely that in ways we can never measure , the preachings about the superiority of the life of the spirit may have been profoundly discouraging and alienating to mothers of very young children , who knew about the realities of their own lives and realized that these preachings were profoundly insensitive to those realities … . |
| 20 | As has been shown above , blood was perceived to be the life-giving force of the universe — an obvious conclusion on empirical grounds , but one which was elevated from the pragmatic to the sacred in Hebrew thought by the belief that in humans it was also the seat of the soul , hence the choice of terminology noted at the outset of this essay for murder and death in the Old Testament . |
| 21 | Other member parties in the coalition , however , were reported to prefer the formation of a new government without elections , anticipating that in elections they stood to lose votes to regional autonomy parties . |
| 22 | The word for ‘ make intercession ’ is the same in Hebrews 7:25 as in Romans 8:26 ; except that in Romans it has a prefix which indicates intensity , or , perhaps , stresses that it is done for us . |
| 23 | His thick white hair was cut short and unevenly , so that in parts it stood up in clumps . |
| 24 | ‘ Lady Amelia , tomorrow , in your chapter meeting after the morning Mass , tell your sisters that before Vespers I will speak to them and explain all that has happened . ’ |
| 25 | Teachers of English offered more substantial criticisms of the literature chapter , and I have to admit that on occasions they had justification for their worries . |
| 26 | They know that they can not have everything and that on occasions they may have to wait . |
| 27 | I made my statement because , against the criticism that on occasions we have not made statements on incidents in Great Britain , I believed it important that there should be one . |
| 28 | His body clock free-ran so that on occasions he was the victim of a clash between an internal cause — which thought it was night and wanted him to sleep — and an external cause , society — which required him to work in the ( real ) daytime . |
| 29 | All the available evidence suggests , then , that on occasions he made what were then fashionably anti-semitic remarks to his close friends . |
| 30 | It could be argued that on occasions I 've taken on things which probably I have n't done as well out of financially as I might have done if I 'd done something else . |