Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] that [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the children clattered , yelling , down the bus steps , their mothers regarded them with a mixture of disgust and pride , as if amazed anew each afternoon that they had managed to produce children of such spectacular offensiveness . |
| 2 | It was only by convincing political authorities , the religious denominations , and the agents of respectable opinion that they were responsible citizens that showmen were able to retain control of the highly profitable business that they had created . |
| 3 | It was n't a very full list cos erm er it did n't occur to me until about seven o'clock this evening that I had to go out quite soon and then I just ran around frantically doing things . |
| 4 | Right , that 's it , that 'll do , I wo n't go any further and I can get the other things in well we had er , we had an aluminium friend , a double glazed enormous window over our landing and it was , the aluminium was so cold and it was conden there was so much condensation that we had a new window P V C put in , but I tried to sell this other window , cos it was beautiful you see , nothing wrong with it except you know , but nobody wanted it and I kept it and I had it for about two years standing outside and then I thought I can use that and I cut , it was a three section , three lots of glass all in one , cut down , divide it into two and one , and got myself a plant house under the erm |
| 5 | A leading Right-On thinker , she had co-written the Beyond The Fragments book which had started as a mere pamphlet , but had attracted so much interest that it had been upgraded and sold an extremely respectable 20,000 copies in paperback , having a major effect on its earnest readership . |
| 6 | In the late 1980s , the Japanese , with their own US plants producing so many cars that they had little need to import more , and with voluntary quotas unfilled , decided to reclassify light commercial vehicles as cars . |
| 7 | Now here was this gifted sister , who had so many opportunities that he had been denied , apparently threatening to throw them all down the drain , and bury herself in some backwater in Africa . |
| 8 | The post was offered as somewhat grudging recognition that he had been a signal success as leader of the first European colony in South America , a village called Santa Maria de la Antigua , on the Atlantic coast of the Isthmus . |
| 9 | He smiled and there was no triumph , only genuine pleasure that she had accepted his offer , and Ruth knew in her heart that she had nothing to fear from this man . |
| 10 | As I said in the case of No 617 Squadron , their enormous success on the Dams raid and on some of the less spectacular sorties that they had flown , rubbed off on all 617 's sorties thereafter . |
| 11 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 12 | But when she announced in a maddeningly off-hand way that she had been deputed to look after him while Clarissa was away , she got another very swift question indeed . |
| 13 | And then he remembered that it was in exactly this position in exactly this place that he had turned to face Lucy , less than three weeks ago , shouting obscenities at her . |
| 14 | Smith had a wide circle of friends who included the members of the locally influential Brigg family , Sir Isaac Holden , first MP for Keighley , John Bright , whose free-trade views he shared unreservedly , John Morley ( Viscount Morley of Blackburn ) , Sir Henry Roscoe , and , not least , Andrew Carnegie [ qq.v. ] , whom he considered the most remarkable man that he had ever met . |
| 15 | He waited , anticipating the usually annoying rejoinder that they had no subscriber of that name on record . |
| 16 | So why did she have this totally irrational feeling that she had surprised him ? |
| 17 | Soviet sources charged that Ghotbzadeh had made ‘ the totally unsupported claim that he had obtained Soviet concurrence in his proposal ’ and had maintained that ‘ an understanding had allegedly been reached between Iran and the Soviet Union on some kind of principles for a settlement in Afghanistan , including the imposition of ‘ neutrality ’ on that country ’ . |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman made a totally false comparison before he made the totally false allegation that I had misled the House . |
| 19 | However , it seemed from his more relaxed air that he had accepted she was innocent of being involved in any plot devised by the beautiful and desirable Lotta — whoever she might be ! |
| 20 | Oh , lord , she inwardly groaned ; if this was Vendelin Gajdusek , then she had a rather unhappy feeling that she had made a terrible start ! |
| 21 | Charles persuaded a rather grudging Miles that he had time for a quick bath before they left . |
| 22 | That night she was woken by the most terrible screams that she had ever heard . |
| 23 | He would say , casually , to his wife later that night that he had given young Luke Bouverie a lift home . |
| 24 | Erm I think it 's probably that infection that I had er |
| 25 | And er they would put up any case that they had from their branch . |
| 26 | The condition of RENFE was seen by the new government as one of the most pressing problems that it had to face . |
| 27 | Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use . |
| 28 | This was the most flattering setup that we had , so therefore it was banned . |
| 29 | The equally obvious fact that she had clearly felt he 'd married well beneath him — and into a family of which she had already disapproved — was something that Laura had n't known how to deal with . |
| 30 | By the mid-1980s the Thatcher government was coming under increasingly embarrassing criticism that it had opted for the second style of social policy . |