Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nibbles is an interesting one that I played one night and I was going cor ! |
| 2 | So bleak are the prospects that I heard one media journalist muttering that the ITC ought not to be advertising the franchise at all . |
| 3 | And he 'd have to put that I remember one man that was counting like this , he used to count them by the three you know . |
| 4 | And she said well , I 'm see that I 've twenty second er I 'm sending him that , mum , to do my reference cos they 've got ta they 've got ta have that . |
| 5 | Erm , oh I 've got another piece back that I 've twenty nine , twenty nine as it goes |
| 6 | ‘ Did you know that I married six months after you did ? |
| 7 | and me want a , er , not and that I got two |
| 8 | With the new round of drinks , he insisted that I try one of his yellow cigarettes . |
| 9 | Don Bennett had always publicly — and to my embarrassment — told anyone who would listen , that I recruited 16,000 Pathfinders for our heavy bomber squadrons and the mosquitos of the Light Night Striking Force . |
| 10 | When I tell them that I spent 17 years in local government , they tell me that I was a masochist . |
| 11 | When I tell people that I spent 10 years in the European Parliament , they tell me that I was a hedonist . |
| 12 | ‘ I worked on various things , but the reason I 'm here is that I spent five years with SimFic working on artificial intelligence . ’ |
| 13 | The final morning brought even more snow , so much so , that I spent 2 hours digging my car out . |
| 14 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 15 | ‘ I ( named ) , the undersigned , swear on oath that I collected two yellow bags containing waste material from a friend 's house at Grange , Co . |
| 16 | So that 's three times this that I ate three of the |
| 17 | Justice demands that I stress one important point . |
| 18 | I proposed that I teach one woman what I knew so that she could teach the others after we got more machines . |
| 19 | I am sorry , I forgot that I made one more telephone call — to Mr. Sellars , the Lothian region 's further education expert . |
| 20 | I am ashamed to admit that I scored 11 and Martin Swartz scored 17 . |
| 21 | You got all in that , English there , English there , English there and English there , and that I had six merit points yesterday . |
| 22 | Before leaving the village I consulted a chart outside the coastguard station , which confirmed that I had five hours before high tide ; this would give me time to get to the end of Worm 's Head and safely back onto the cliffs without danger of being stranded . |
| 23 | So that I had two homes really , because as often as not I was down at her house , as in my own home . ’ |
| 24 | Oh yes indeed , indeed , well only last week I said do need some flowers , come on Thursday they 're fresh , I said I want them now Lionel , I hate to be without flowers in the room and he said well have two for the price of one , he would insist that I had two bunches for the price of one . |
| 25 | This demonstrated that I was not yet a legionnaire as I had not been awarded my white képi , and as such was still an ‘ engagé volontaire ’ or recruit ; it went on to say that I had one month 's service in the Legion , and that I was part of the Squadron commanded by Capitaine Duransoy , in the section of Sergeant Major Barlerin of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment . |
| 26 | Erm , I erm , employ people , so I decided to have an employment section , six months later when I was reviewing the daytimer , I discovered that I had one sheet in my employment section , er , about a lady I had interviewed and not employed , whereas I had a prospect section that was overflowing , and needed drastic sub-division . |
| 27 | And then I bought another one and then I bought a third one so that I had three combines but there were no other combines on Orkney at all . |
| 28 | Where is your proof that I garrotted two men , not to mention an old woman , in London ? |
| 29 | Any more than that I wasted five minutes reading his articles ? |
| 30 | Instead , I sent him one of me that I took one weekend , with the sun coming in the window and shining on my hair . |