Example sentences of "[noun prp] [that] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ E treated our Nancy when she 'ad w'oopin' cough , but 'e told Mrs Walker that 'er varicose veins is provin' obstinate . |
| 2 | We heard from Mr Edgar that his sister had died , and that he was returning soon with his young nephew . |
| 3 | He sat on a huge leather chair with a sigh of relief and it was clear to Hari that his leg had been giving him trouble . |
| 4 | In this case Mr Kelly made it clear to Dixons that his client needed a PC which could be upgraded to 4Mb of RAM and could take a dongle plugged into Com1 . |
| 5 | He told Ramsey that his language was paradoxical and difficult . |
| 6 | It seems necessary to try to simplify and improve the machinery in the interests of the Board 's work , and also in order that the University and voluntary associations may be able to show to LEAs that their share in adult education will be effectively conducted . |
| 7 | Compagnie Generale des Eaux SA said on Friday that its wholly-owned General Cable Ltd unit has acquired South Yorkshire Cablevision Ltd from Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's Pactel Cable UK Ltd for an undisclosed sum : South Yorkshire Cablevision holds cable TV franchises in Doncaster and Rotherham , passing 192,000 homes and General Cable already has 100,000 cable TV and telephone subscribers in a number of franchises in Britain ; it is very active in Bradford and plans to start work by the end of the year linking Sheffield subscribers . |
| 8 | She 'd had no chance even to tell David that her family would be at OBEX the following day , so it could be as much a shock for him seeing Jennifer as it would be for her sister . |
| 9 | South Africa on Sept. 4 denied allegations by Uganda that its leading arms manufacturer Armscor had been supplying weapons to Croatia . |
| 10 | ‘ Frau Fegel was saying the other day when we were playing Bach that our technique was good but that we had to learn to put feeling into our playing . ’ |
| 11 | However as we have just seen , women did correct at Constable 's and despite what seems to be an oblique claim by Margaret Irwin that their breasts got in the way , they certainly did correcting in several other printing houses . |
| 12 | With France in chaos , its king a prisoner , Navarrese forces in control in Normandy and English garrisons established not just in Brittany and Aquitaine but also in Anjou , Maine and Touraine , it must have appeared to Edward that his ultimate triumph was in sight , and it is arguable that now , after the failure of the Second Treaty of London , Edward 's aim was nothing less than the crown . |
| 13 | In their petition , the Gascon clergy and nobility reminded Edward that his predecessors as ‘ lords ’ ( domini ) of Aquitaine , and their seneschals , had made full use of this assembly and that it was a valuable weapon in his armoury against the pretensions of the king of France and his officers . |
| 14 | I knew from Rex that his work in Swindon had mystified his contemporaries , so , when you turned up , the one man who might know all about it , it seemed an opportunity too good to miss . ’ |
| 15 | But since it was published she and Rushdie have split , amid all too public accusations from Ms Wiggins that her former husband was crazed with vanity and insincere about his ‘ conversion ’ to Islam . |
| 16 | Later that night , after I had returned to Venturous , we received the signal from Falmouth that our suspect had sailed . |
| 17 | Mr Horn will seek to capitalise on the ensuing good will to convince Bucharest that his country has no hostile designs . |
| 18 | My falling in love with Julian was nothing to do with me , nothing to do with Julian , but part of the curse put on Bernard that his wife would become the love object of a man more attractive , more wealthy , more intelligent and of a higher status than he , so he did n't stand an earthly . |
| 19 | Prince Charles had intended to wait for Cumberland to attack , but after his troops had endured this merciless fire for 20 minutes or more one commander warned Lord George Murray that his men ‘ were turned so impatient that they were like to break their ranks ’ and the pretender agreed to an immediate attack . |
| 20 | JACQUES DELORS , President of the European Commission , told West Germany that its hopes for reunification would best be served by working for a more federal Community , implying that this might one day embrace East Germany . |
| 21 | One of these writers , the poet Hölderlin , claims our particular attention here for the new attitude towards Germany that his commitment to the Greek ideal entails — and also for his intuitive awareness of a greater complexity underlying " the spirit of Greece " than Winckelmann or his immediate successors had been able to recognize . |
| 22 | I suggested to Lord Bonham-Carter that his pedigree inevitably made him a political appointee himself : |
| 23 | So Richard assures Clarence that his ‘ imprisonment shall not be long ; /I will deliver you , else lie for you ’ ( 1 . |
| 24 | Boasts from DEC that its Alpha RISC is at least 1,000 times scalable , are beginning to look like pure hubris : maybe they might be able to snap eight processors together on a bus eventually , but reportedly all its got now is four and supposedly that 's not working too well . |
| 25 | When John Peter , no doubt in a state of some alarm that his scholarship had provoked such a response , offered to publish a retraction , Eliot 's solicitors wrote in March that their client considered it " neither necessary nor desirable " for any such retraction to appear ; their client would take the very gravest view of any " further dissemination " of the article or its contents , which he had read " with amazement and disgust " . |
| 26 | The Party had now disaffiliated the Socialist League , announcing on 24 March that its members would be automatically expelled on 1 June . |
| 27 | The thought of the forthcoming windfall reminded Rev. Levitt that his last wedding had in fact been that of Mrs Cohen 's elder daughter . |
| 28 | Last night she had told Roger that her name was Bridget ; yet to the Blessington-Dalrymples he had introduced her as Breeze . |
| 29 | It was perhaps typical of Ferguson that his home debut for Scotland after a period of prolonged difficulty on and off the field should be an unfettered display of the forward 's rich gifts . |
| 30 | This was not merely to reassure his wife , but to make clear to Sarah that his love for Elizabeth had never wavered . |