Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] that [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But anyway , she made me promise that my first day in New York , I 'd go to Statue of Liberty . |
| 2 | you see I 'm talking about his father but I liked er Mrs 's first husband , you see and er I hear that her second husband is n't all that good . |
| 3 | Although my certificate in Sociology had not yet come , I knew that my next and most important study must be Theology , only so I could understand the situation that my children would face in the future , and other people 's children would have to meet as well . |
| 4 | ‘ I see that your last post was in London . ’ |
| 5 | Mendeleev himself felt that its first row should have eight elements in it , as the second did , and advertised for vacancies between hydrogen and lithium . |
| 6 | We need not bother with the details , save to say that it is quite certain that all the contemporary accounts of Balboa 's triumph — which mention that he first saw the Pacific at 10 am on Tuesday , 25 September — are wrong . |
| 7 | She revealed that she first learnt of the threatened closure while her daughter was fighting for life . |
| 8 | Some of those who believed that his first bankruptcy had been engineered by the Shipping Federation had come to his rescue at the eleventh hour . |
| 9 | Steve 's coach Mike Holmes , who confesses he was ‘ astonished ’ by the 20-years-old 's 2.33 metres effort for Liverpool Harriers in last weekend 's British League match , said : ‘ Because Steve had not jumped in competition , or even in training before last Thursday , we decided that his first two competitions would be off the shortened run-up . |
| 10 | There had been other stresses too , and we felt that our first job was one of reassurance . |
| 11 | We knew that our first step had to be spending time learning how we could best help Vietnam 's children . |
| 12 | As husbands and wives , we recognise that our first and most important ministry is to our partner , closely followed by our children . |
| 13 | Here they discovered that their last great king had died several years previously , and still lay rotting in his widowed queen 's home . |
| 14 | He realized that his last chance was to make his captors believe that Donna knew where the book they sought was hidden , whatever it was . |
| 15 | ‘ He told that her next responsibility was to be loyal to her husband above all else . |
| 16 | When war was first declared , and she was co-opted into the military , he imagined that her first reaction had been that it was typical of these men to mess up her promising career like that . |
| 17 | He confirms that his next director 's job will be a project starring Kevin Costner . |
| 18 | He soon remarried and it appears that his second wife had no qualms about sharing the bedchamber with her predecessor . |
| 19 | Wordsworth has observed a primrose perched on top of a rock ; in the second stanza he remembers that he first saw it many years ago ( actually 1802 . |
| 20 | ‘ He said that her next responsibility was to be loyal to her husband above all else . |
| 21 | Nor did he dismiss it outright , though he said that my first duty should be to my family , with which of course I concurred . |
| 22 | He said that his first speech in the previous coal debate made the headlines of Coal News , but I do not think that the chairman of British Coal will be grateful that the hon. Gentleman has halved the take and production of coal in his remarks . |
| 23 | He suggests that we first obtain estimates of α and β , say and , from an ordinary least-squares regression of equation ( 3.49a ) . |
| 24 | ‘ It claims that we first select a particular task that we wish to carry out , and then select the appropriate machine which will enable us to perform this task . |
| 25 | This time there were bubbles of water , and he concluded that his first sample — ostensibly uncontaminated fuel — had actually been nearly 100 per cent water . |