Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 He could tell by her eyes that she had closed her mind to him .
2 Lifeboat crews in turn depend on you and the thousands of Governors and other supporters that you represent to speed them on their way with the resources you provide so unstintingly .
3 We 're already so far ahead of our expected ratings that they keep suggesting we move it to an earlier time , but I wo n't let them .
4 It could be extended to look even longer , and presented with the words that we wanted to give you ‘ a small gift ’ or a gift ‘ big enough for two ’ .
5 Then the world seemed to be going round and he was falling down and someone was running from a distance , one of the Keepers , in a grey uniform and with a fat pale face that filled him with such fear that he began to cry out in Hebrew words that he had forgotten he knew .
6 During the eight short months that he lived following his resignation , he was plagued by a sense of foreboding that the future would hold a similar fate for himself .
7 For students — young people and adults alike — it will mean more opportunities to gain new skills , obtain qualifications and develop fully the roles that they need to fulfil themselves at work and as citizens .
8 But you 're taking a , a , a G P's word for it , that these tablets that he 's given you are gon na help you through the emotional pain
9 However , it was on financial policies that he chose to oppose his senior colleague , the lord treasurer Thomas Osborne , first Earl of Danby [ q.v. ] , and in May 1676 he was dismissed , losing his pension in 1678 and his place in the council in 1679 .
10 I am not talking primarily about myself , he wrote , for it will be obvious to anyone who reads these notes that you have used me simply as a stalking horse for some of your more outrageous views and .
11 From the plans that I 've seen there 's no change from what they originally planned
12 In the cases that I have mentioned everything is in order — all the forms have been filled in and returned by the contractor , the work has been completed satisfactorily — but it is a long time before the cheque is processed and the contractor paid .
13 Debtors who showed the courts that they had made their best efforts to pay , and also showed they were not fraudulent or reckless in incurring debt could be given relief from liabilities after three years .
14 Bill Francis looked so much worse in twelve hours that I had to control my expression when I went back to him .
15 You will have noticed in the circulars that we have launched our first theme — Customer Service ( circular AD/93/105 ) .
16 John Morgan , 64 , who was her driver in 1988 when the young township activist was killed , told the Johannesburg Sunday Times that she had ordered him to remove the body from her Soweto home and ‘ dump the dog ’ .
17 Suffice it to say that in this field voluntary effort has long played a considerable part and there are signs that it intends to increase its contribution to this field .
18 But he could hardly have walked to St Matthew 's that way ; there were no signs that he had cleaned his shoes anywhere in the church .
19 Although Blake may have given the impression to the prison authorities that he had accepted his sentence and settled down to serve it ( it would surely have been odd had he done otherwise ) , in reality neither he nor the KGB had any intention of him remaining in prison a day longer than necessary .
20 This , however , is what we do , together with a big ‘ Thank you ’ for all the news and views that you 've given us in 1991 .
21 Sensitive Sunday Telegraph columnist Sir Peregrine Worsthorne was so distressed by our views that he had to ask his secretary , Justine Oliver , to reply .
22 He feels that it is because he has a high ethical and moral standard in his approach to sacred sites that he has earned their trust over the years .
23 I 've almost given up on the London Borough of Bromley because the land , the areas that they 've offered us have been quite impractical and although we 've got , you know , croquet is a cheap sport .
24 It is , rather , that the errors that they make permeate their philosophy of mathematics , their account of its foundations , of what their subject is about , and in what direction it should develop .
25 My exposure to the energy and subtle abilities of my Subud brothers in Java had so ignited my optimism and sense of wonder concerning our hidden natures that I had wangled my way into Lancaster University 's Department of Comparative Religion to write a doctorate on transformational consciousness , in a field which was later to be referred to as psycho-anthropology .
26 She was so poorly versed in the emotions that she failed to comprehend its true nature .
27 He retained an affection for Paris and a gratitude for the intellectual advantages that it had given him to which he later referred as pope .
28 They 'll be exclamations and things they 're just exclamations that they 've heard I think on television .
29 Now and again there was a light in his eyes , a far-off look , that was so appealing to her senses that she had to break it to ease her own pain .
30 However in all fairness to the Halling unit a number of those older men who fought in the first war wore medals for gallantry , and were to show us youngsters that they had lost none of their skills with a rifle .
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