Example sentences of "[pron] that [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Er , you 're buying me that race for my birthday . |
2 | My doctor tells me that leg of his must still be hurting like the devil . |
3 | ‘ You gave me that line about my mind ten years ago , ’ Emma said . |
4 | ‘ Why you sent me that copy of your father 's letter . ’ |
5 | It seems to me that lot of it 's been dominated by various sort of rather obscure sounding Germans . |
6 | ‘ But I promised you that painting on your wedding day , and I had to send it . ’ |
7 | She was so vulnerable to him that part of her was already accepting that defeat was inevitable , that only Luke could be the one to end their affair , but at the same time pride was demanding resistance , refusing to submit to the humiliation of a physical surrender to the man who had called her a liar , accused her of infidelity — the man who had hurt her so badly . |
8 | " The Trustees of the Stockport Grammar and Free School , having taken into consideration an application by the Rev. C. G. Hamilton , MA , for a Testimonial as a Candidate for the Headmastership of the Birmingham and Edgbaston Proprietary School , feel that while they should be sorry to part with services so valuable to their own school , they can not , in justice to him , refuse him the opportunity of improving his position , and they cordially wish him that success to which , both from ability and experience , he is so eminently entitled . " |
9 | After all , the woman with the voice — what had Luke called her that day in his office ? |
10 | Would it not have been kinder had she pretended to be glad — since it was Christmas time , after all — when Odette had come rushing to show her that letter from her father ? |
11 | ‘ You know , I gave her that room to herself when she came to us , because I thought it would be better , and she treated me like a servant — well , you saw , did n't you ? — and when she 'd got all the fun and sense of power out of that little game she started coming down with us . |
12 | Why tender'st thou that paper to me , with |
13 | I was n't proposing to do it that way for anyone 's work but my own ! |
14 | It is impossible to be indifferent towards her , and she prefers it that way in her criticism , as she preferred it in life . |
15 | Sloan Wilson did not sneer at it that way in his autobiography , What Shall We Wear To This Party : |
16 | Time to fast from it That session with She-She had done me no good at all . |
17 | It suffices to note here that the more heavily firms discount the future the less likely is it that collusion among them can be sustained . |
18 | Without calling for one 's whole attention , it so persistently demands a small part of it that concentration on anything else is ruled out . |
19 | ‘ Do n't tell me what that brother of mine is like , ’ she had said fervently . |
20 | There 's also your belief about what that belief of yours is , which is what will determine what you 'll actually say . |
21 | We were sitting on adjacent banquettes at whatever that school of ours was called ( Stuart will know — ask Stuart ) . |
22 | Will the Minister assure us that information on someone 's behaviour as a prostitute would be accessed only if they were being charged for similar offences ? |
23 | Right , give us that floodlight of yours . ’ |