Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I go out and pick up strange men in clubs because that seems to fit the self-image that I 've adopted — I do n't know if that makes sense . |
| 2 | Indeed , and to allow them to take that sort of action that they feel allows them , or enables them to express what they 're feelings are , but to assume that they can take the sort of action that we as adults have not been able to take , i.e. to find different ways and more mature ways of resolving conflicts is putting expectations on children that we as adults have n't been able to achieve ourselves . |
| 3 | The churn rate is now down to eleven percent , the result of positive action that we 've taken there and we expect to add a million homes during this year and the cable audience I am pleased to say is growing still very very slowly er but that should help as well . |
| 4 | So I hope that you will agree or confirm the action that we 've taken in expressing those sorts of views . |
| 5 | Erm , in the point that was raised from the London region , talking about resources in dealing with er regional health and safety officers and their time , part of the er document itself , is looking at consultation , so that the resource implications and the necessary action that we have to take in identifying priorities , deals with those things and those things are now opened up to discussion , er by accepting the report , and we 'll be looking at that over this next year . |
| 6 | My whole understanding of the human world requires that in thought and imagination I am constantly shifting between and responding from different viewpoints , here or there , remembered or anticipated , individual or collective , my own or someone else 's , hypothetical , fictional , or simply indefinite ; it is only in action that I have to settle in a present viewpoint , whether personal ( ‘ I ’ ) or social ( ‘ We ’ ) . |
| 7 | If the right hon. Gentleman wants to talk about taking action , perhaps he will consider the action that he proposes to take in his policies : a minimum wage that will cost jobs , a payroll tax that will cost jobs , and a strikers charter that will create jobs — not here but in France , in Germany , in Belgium , in Italy , in the United States and elsewhere . |
| 8 | The Home Secretary is receiving a disproportionate amount of attention from the press for the action that he has taken . |
| 9 | They would highlight certain characteristics of human beings , such as emotions or the capacity to make moral choices , as characteristics that they wish to value above all others . |
| 10 | Almost all the characteristics that I enumerate apply to other nations in one way or another . |
| 11 | Then all of a sudden these strange people started coming out of record companies who were involved in the video end of it and deciding this is what we should do with that song and sort of you know these were songs that we had planned and recorded and and all of a sudden these people were changing them . |
| 12 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 13 | A repertoire of songs that it has heard |
| 14 | We have been encouraged to hear from the president of the National Licensed Victuallers Association that he has seen some softening in the brewers ' approach since our meetings with them . |
| 15 | Erm , it is perhaps only in the last er , six months or so that the erm , turnaround in the fortunes of erm , er , B Sky B have been acknowledged and er , I think there has been an element in our thinking that we wanted to keep our dry er , until such time as er , B Sky B which we have great belief and faith in and our , as you know we increased our investment during the year erm , sees its way through to profitability and I 'm happy to say that that 's happening now at a reab reasonable rate and that that means that it is highly unlikely that the hundred and thirty million of guarantees that we still have outstanding to B Sky B are likely to be called . |
| 16 | I 'm only thinking that you 've got somebody counting ? |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been trying to get it into his thinking that he has to do more running , that he has to fight more and that there are defensive duties he has to do . ’ |
| 18 | Looking back on that moment , it had often occurred to Shiona that it had marked the path that their future relationship was to take . |
| 19 | Mr Delors abandoned a semi-social engagement in Watford to return to Brussels after a brief visit to Oxford , with accusations ringing in his ears that he had sabotaged the talks . |
| 20 | It 's only on Innsbruck that we 've done it because that 's what the market demands . |
| 21 | I 'll be all sweet penitence and grief that I 've dared set my will against his . |
| 22 | Now sheep are animals that we tend to regard as being pretty stupid and most of the time they 're timid creatures who will run away at the slightest sound or sight of something strange in their midst . |
| 23 | Well looking at the individual breeds of animals that we 've got here , tell us about the basic breed line that you you keep on the farm here . |
| 24 | With the change from a nomadic and food-gathering to an agricultural and more highly organized form of society , man 's anxiety about himself and the animals that he hunted merged into a wider anxiety about nature . |
| 25 | Animals that you have captured specially for testing should be set free immediately afterwards in the place from which they were taken . |
| 26 | The brigade that it faced had been forced to give ground . |
| 27 | Because if we continue with the housing stock that we 've got , then families living in high rise flats are never ever gon na have the opportunity to own their own house with a garden so the children can play . |
| 28 | Will he give an assurance that he will sustain the generous funding of Northern Arts that he has managed in the past few years ? |
| 29 | You got it same time as I got that one , that 's last year 's card that we 've got . |
| 30 | Angling for the deal that it has sought for some time now , UK firm IXI Ltd , Cambridge , is starting to cast groundbait all over the water in an attempt to land its catch . |