Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , that money that I took to the taxi rank this morning . |
| 2 | The whole concept of quotas should be abandoned because of the economic damage that they cause by preventing the proper and flexible use of farmers ' resources and assets and by preventing technological innovation . |
| 3 | In the latter half of the twentieth century , belief in Sandys ' nuclear philosophy counted for less than the political opportunity that it provided for ending National Service . |
| 4 | Although it looked completely different , it was this truck that gave me the concept for ‘ MiniMag ’ , the 27ft ( 8m ) articulated truck that we used for Mrs Thatcher 's open-air meetings in the 1987 election . |
| 5 | Rose and Adams , in Langley 's collection , wrongly see this as some form of limitation : ‘ Possibly the greatest difficulty that we have in furthering our understanding of pain and suffering in other animals is the limitation of the human model ’ ( 1989 : 63 ) . |
| 6 | Do you con will you continue that story that I listened to a week before cos I was n't here last week |
| 7 | B minor , Campra 's key of unhappy love , serves for the quasi-dialogue in which Dido begs Aeneas to stay , his reluctant departure at the bidding of the gods , and her vain plea that he return to her ( movements 7–9a ) . |
| 8 | Yeah because then you could have that , you could like have a story board for that advert that you thought of . |
| 9 | Consider each impasse that you meet as a stepping stone along the path to eventual happiness and fulfilment . |
| 10 | When I first started teaching drama I accepted the prevailing dogma that you started by getting children to work individually , then in pairs , then in small groups and eventually ( when they were really good at drama ) in larger groups ! |
| 11 | rock and roll You know that tape that you had with all the rock and roll 's greatest hits . |
| 12 | You can take that tin that you got in er you can take that tin as a pencil case that you got pardon ? |
| 13 | It is a liquid protein that they squeeze from little nozzles at the rear of the abdomen which hardens as it meets the air . |
| 14 | It is with the greatest possible pleasure that I write to you once more , this time to confirm that your Company 's independence has been preserved after a battle which has lasted over nine months . |
| 15 | But there was no way she would allow herself to be carried away by that hypnotic pull that he had over her . |
| 16 | And he talks of the , and plainly in that erm sort of mystical experience that he had with the Whiteheads , he did in , as it were , come to realize for the first time that there was in himself this desire to lead a life erm inspired by love and guided by knowledge , and to see others leading it . |
| 17 | And it was undoubtedly at this deeply atavistic and liberating level that he responded from the first to tribal art . |
| 18 | Ignorance , combined with confidence that the popular support that he enjoyed inside France would make him indispensable to the Allies , may well explain his initially calm response to news of the invasion on 8 November . |
| 19 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 20 | We thank you , Lord , for the daily provision that you make for the world . |
| 21 | The ideas and concepts of the prison structure in Scotland — outlined in a speech at the conference by Alan Walker , the deputy chief executive of the SPS — so impressed a Latvian delegation that they wrote to Scotland 's Minister of State , Lord Fraser of Carmyllie , asking his permission for Walker to visit the country . |
| 22 | They are simply not they do n't expect the level of sexual tension that they seem to be identifying as a problem in Oxford . |
| 23 | While the meeting in the foyer was going on , the corporation gave a clear indication that it felt under pressure . |
| 24 | The following example combines the principle of peak load pricing with the idea of a two-part tariff that we introduced in Section 17–4 . |
| 25 | Ladies and gentlemen erm about three years ago we finally decided to restore this car that you see behind us and although it was er an impossible task at times we , we carried on regardless and I hope that you 'll agree that everything you see today , plus the fact that seeing everybody out here , I think we , you 'll agree we made the right decision and er we feel that as long as this car is in this position that nobody 'll erm have any doubts who the Three- Ninetieth Group were and er , I think er , I think we 're all proud of this day particularly . |
| 26 | Of course , over the years we 've campaigned , as I was telling someone only yesterday in another club that I go to at the church , that I said you know we , the Co-op Womens ' Guild , were helping to put water into Africa before any of this Band-aid and Live-aid was thought about . |
| 27 | We had a thing what we called a hay-strewer ; and we had an old horse that we put in this hay-strewer . |
| 28 | It was while filming at this den that I heard of yet another place , only a few miles up the Wye , where mink had been seen killing mallard chicks . |
| 29 | Now , so we have n't got the reason for you gaining this skill that you had in the case of making scones , playing the clarinet . |
| 30 | It was in a similarly reflective vein that he wrote to Marion Dorn later in the year . |