Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so surprised that I followed him without a word . |
| 2 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
| 3 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 4 | I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark . |
| 5 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
| 6 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
| 7 | But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I , that I inhabit it like a house , and that my face is a mask which , with or without my consent , conceals my real nature from others . ’ |
| 8 | It is important that I put myself in a position to be able to give you the best possible advice . |
| 9 | ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’ |
| 10 | Now that I seek myself in a serpent |
| 11 | I got so tired of having juice pouring into my bag that I take it in a little lemonade bottle now . |
| 12 | Please let solicitors deal with everything , and also , please believe me when I say that I want nothing but a few mementos of my father . |
| 13 | I have to confess that I walloped her with a newspaper but I did n't touch her . ’ |
| 14 | Ronni smiled a small smile , grateful that the subject of Jeff and Silvia had been left behind , and enjoying , for once , the fact that she had him at a disadvantage . |
| 15 | But , when nothing she could do from inside the car would make it go again , she began to realise in her non-mechanical mind that she had something of a problem on her hands . |
| 16 | Clive Kemp 's suggestion that she join him on a cruise across the Mediterranean had seemed the perfect antidote to a long hard winter , a series of temping jobs which had been more demanding than usual , and the unpleasantness of her break-up with Giles . |
| 17 | People will argue that she did it as a good deed , in helping her husband 's friend . |
| 18 | ( One of the teachers whom I interviewed , and who did not comment on this question , has since told me that she used it with a class . |
| 19 | Once you have completed your design , you must ensure that you cover it with a sheet of glass should you have to leave it at any time . |
| 20 | You said that you got it for a bet , well a bet is usually something like swimming in the North Sea on Christmas Day , I mean something sharp and brief , while working for a degree , however brilliant you are , takes years . |
| 21 | that you put it behind a save bush , chop that azalea bush , stick it back there , that 'll keep the broom coming in . |
| 22 | ‘ Because firstly she feels embarrassed at not knowing much about art , and secondly she 's still struggling with the fact that you mould her like a piece of clay in every painting . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I insist that you take me to a fastline terminal . |
| 24 | Like most LIFESPAN activities , CREFDL will inform you of its progress as it works , so it is recommended that you run it from a hard copy terminal , or log the session to a file . |
| 25 | Erm , and he said , you know , I really resent the fact that you treat me like a village idiot , and I said , well you know , I 'm sorry that you feel that way , but my experience is of a group of fourteen people , erm , is that somebody always gets it wrong . |
| 26 | Well that 's fine then erm and what what what happens is that you do it through a bank but there are banks which I think Barclays and the Cooperative Bank and maybe one or two others do it . |
| 27 | Grosvenor House has traditionally been both an exhibition and a fair it is not just about the exchange of money with this American theme , I admit that we draw something of a blank . |
| 28 | There is no reason here , and I think no reason at all , to doubt that we take it of a cause and its effect that if or since the cause occurred then so did the effect . |
| 29 | However , even at the same time as this controversy continues the discipline has not only come to recognize the influence of the self , but has urged that we use it as a scientific construction ( Okely 1975a ) . |
| 30 | We are only kidding ourselves if we think that we have anything like a complete succession for any part of the stratigraphical column in any one place . |