Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] that [noun] was " in BNC.

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1 One morning the alarm calls of grey langur monkeys alerted Bill Arjan Singh that Harriet was somewhere down by the river that forms the boundary with the National Park .
2 Peter Yeo winced inwardly , but he was not going to tell Andy Barton that Angela was missing , or express any of his reservations about how much influence Angela could bring to bear .
3 One afternoon , when Aunt Lilian was lying down , I told Aunt Kit that Richard was on the ‘ other side ’ over Suez and that I had decided to leave him .
4 While Mark was in Dublin the head of the French Development Authority DATAR paid a courtesy visit to Detroit to make the point to Nate Cocello , and Chairman , Tom O'Reilly that France was keen to attract very much more United Motors investment .
5 It may be that it was because he was so secure in East Anglia that Offa was subsequently able to involve himself so much more forcefully in the south-east .
6 Miss Honey felt confident that she would have no difficulty in convincing Mr and Mrs Wormwood that Matilda was something very special indeed .
7 Scott was adamant the city had the support of British athletes , despite recent reported comments by Olympic champion Linford Christie that Sydney was a better bet .
8 ‘ I 'm not sure that man Kennedy that Nicola was supposed to be meeting ever existed . ’
9 Allen 's friends told the magazine New York Newsday that Farrow was jealous of the closeness between him and Dylan and that she favoured her natural children over her adopted youngsters .
10 Abu-Halima 's brother , Mohamed , said in New York that Mahmud was arrested after arriving in Egypt on 11 March to visit their family .
11 Third umpire Chris Balderstone studied TV replays before getting on his two-way radio to inform colleagues Nigel Plews and John Hampshire that Fairbrother was safely home .
12 In a television interview earlier yesterday Mr Shevardnadze angrily rejected charges from Gen Grachev that Georgia was waging war against its own people .
13 On Oct. 5 UNITA withdrew from the Angolan Armed Forces ( FAA ) , the new national army formed in September [ ibid. ] , leading to accusations from the US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Herman Cohen that UNITA was violating the 1991 peace accord with the government [ see p. 38180 ] .
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