Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [noun] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could hear Nell 's voice announcing calmly that everyone had time for another drink . |
| 2 | The idea was to try to bring back the spirit of entrepreneurship that I thought people in these neighbourhoods would be inclined towards if the right environment were established . ’ |
| 3 | well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything . |
| 4 | So after completing my National Service , I did all the things that everybody does when they 're trying to break into show business , urged on by my father 's insistence that I found employment of some sort — ‘ Get a job , any job , just get one ! |
| 5 | Salha was a woman of strong , open and reassuring character whose links with the women of nearly every household in Huaiwiri through her own daughters and her mother 's sisters ' descent in the women 's line ensured that she had influence in all households . |
| 6 | It was n't that she wanted to work in a sex shop but that she needed work of some kind . |
| 7 | Erm in the er late eighteenth century the , the , the consensus was that you needed government for some spec specific purposes . |
| 8 | And it was n't for long , I must admit , that we had cows in that field but I think |
| 9 | So it was not until we set out to explore the headland of Snaefellsness that we encountered sea-birds in any numbers . |
| 10 | Gedanken noted that they kept pace with each other , both showing the same number . |
| 11 | They said that they had difficulties with those designs which combined the two offices in one building , as the prizes were to be awarded for both parts . |
| 12 | IN THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN tradition , human beings , closest to God , believed that they had dominion over all His other creatures , which He created for human benefit . |
| 13 | The thrill of the rallies before the miners ' ballot was that they evoked echoes of that kind of military manoeuvre , disciplined , exotic troops , mobilised in precise , obedient formation , like ballroom dancing . |
| 14 | But far from accepting that they gave expression to some all-important class struggle , liberal historians regard the ideas of the revolutionary intelligentsia as the product of their own psychological needs . |
| 15 | Hachette says that Montana was a passive minority investor about which it knew no more than it had been told by Montana 's Swiss lawyer : that it represented investors from several Gulf countries . |
| 16 | I could n't see the logic of this except that it protected Thatcher from any hint of ‘ doing deals with terrorists ’ . |
| 17 | This hypothetical test was preferred on the grounds that it gave rise to less uncertainty , and avoided the possibility of the court acting on the basis of hindsight . |
| 18 | He was a happy and contented member of a new kind of club , and since the last thing Ken wanted to do was join a club , it was a measure of his new triumph that he became part of this one . |
| 19 | If one accepts the statement that Hizir Bey was mufti in Istanbul , then it is natural to suppose that Molla Husrev succeeded him ; but as with Hizir Bey , so with Molla Husrev , there is no positive evidence , nor even any suggestive indication , that Molla Husrev was in any sense Mufti before his return from Bursa : there is nothing , in short , to suggest that he became Mufti in any way other than that reported by the . |
| 20 | He was regarded on both sides of the House not only as charming , but as very honest and courageous , and I think that we can genuinely say that he had friendships on both sides . |
| 21 | He suffered over evidence that he had links with former communists and the secret police ; over criticism of his ambiguous prescriptions for economic recovery ; and over ridicule of his claims that he had had mystical experiences . |
| 22 | His profound psychological insight owed a great deal to a neurotic streak , and it was no accident that one of his contributions to subsequent technical terminology was the term Angst ( ‘ dread ’ ) , and that he published books with such titles as The Concept of Dread , Fear and Trembling and The Sickness unto Death . |
| 23 | Knott had made it clear , it would seem , to the le Fleming estate agent that he wanted rights to all of the copper on the Coniston Manor , though without any success . |
| 24 | Though Caedwalla remained unbaptized until after his abdication as king in 688 , it is not inconceivable that he approached Wilfrid in such a capacity , and certainly by the time of his abdication Caedwalla had resolved to seek baptism in Rome itself . |
| 25 | Eadmer reports that he visited England in this capacity in 1100 or 1101 , but that no one received him . |