Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , if the project fails there is a 0·2 chance that the additional research supported it and a 0·8 chance that it did not . |
| 2 | Conversely , if the project fails there is a 0.2 chance that the additional research supported it and a 0.8 chance that it did not . |
| 3 | Experience told him that a woman 's natural instinct was to defend herself rather than to hurt the attacker . |
| 4 | Our GP told me that a drug called Dexamethazone , although in no way a cure , would probably help Nigel 's state of mind by reducing the pressure of the growth on his brain . |
| 5 | The curator of that museum told him that a book was being written that would transform everyone 's perception of Modigliani , and this led Martens to Noel Alexandre . |
| 6 | Nahum told her that a teacher 's needed for one of the permanent Romany camps set up in Kent by a preacher . |
| 7 | Simon told me that a school |
| 8 | At a bridge above the fall a friendly sign said " Keep out , private property " , while another sign told me that a bull was loose with cattle in the field I had to cross . |
| 9 | ( A screw told me that a prison regulation stated that there should only be two chairs for every three women . ) |
| 10 | The idea for this book began in the back of a taxi , the night a friend told me that a famous Scottish football manager had enjoyed rampant sex in a television studio with a well known TV presenter . |
| 11 | Addressing concerns expressed about the problem of lawlessness in some parts of the country which was deterring some businessmen from expanding their operations , Khan reassured them that a special force would be set up by the government specifically to protect oil installations . |
| 12 | So I says , oh I says , saying what they were and she said , oh , she said , and I 've got some mugs Auntie Elsie bought you and a bit after and she said , she said , there 's them four mugs for Angela . |
| 13 | Jason Ashmall lost his as a skilled book binder with 30 years experience in October . |
| 14 | A shop assistant promised me that a head torch would ‘ bring me down off the mountain after dark ’ . |
| 15 | At five to seven she decided that her long gold hair needed another combing — and jumped up from the dressing-table as if shot when a minute later the phone in her room rang and the receptionist told her that a car had come for her . |
| 16 | ‘ My father told me that a woman 's body odour was the sexiest smell in the world . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ On its own , perhaps not , but I 'd also been told that day that people believed you and an English journalist who lives here , James Cobalt , were making enquiries about drug trafficking . |
| 18 | HOMOSEXUAL patients were victimised as public announcements mocked them and a gays-only toilet was set up . |
| 19 | Corbett was nodding in agreement when a knock at the door interrupted them and a short , dumpy figure entered . |
| 20 | He drew her against him so completely that shafts of sexual awareness pierced her and a blind hungry need made her cling to him . |
| 21 | " I 'm not doubting you , but the thought struck me that a gathering of this type might attract some unwarranted attention , and perhaps encourage unwanted visitors . " |
| 22 | In 1886 she became secretary to the Women 's Protective and Provident League ( founded by Emma Patterson ) but resigned in 1889 when events in London 's East End convinced her that a more radical , socialist approach to women 's trade unionism was needed . |
| 23 | The Archdeacon reminded himself that an Archdeacon of ten years ' standing was senior to a residentiary Canon of three , but his reminder gave him , not for the first time , no comfort . |
| 24 | In June the chairman of the opposition Birlik organisation , Abdurakhim Pulatov , needed emergency hospital treatment for skull fractures after four men beat him and a companion with metal bars as they left an interview at a police station in the capital Tashkent . |
| 25 | While there , it is alleged , a neighbour called Kessler told her that a photograph of her and Crabb had appeared in an East German newspaper . |
| 26 | Rumour had it that an unhappy love-affair was at the root of her unpleasant nature . |
| 27 | Self-preservation told her that a whole lifetime might not be enough . |
| 28 | Lawyer D told her that a jointly-owned house would become the sole property of her husband after her death , and she could not in any way guarantee her share of the money invested in it for her children . |
| 29 | The second prejudice against dissection was held by religious people who took in a literal sense the resurrection of the body , and had an emotional commitment to this doctrine , even if intellect told them that an incomplete body could be no bar to the miracle of rising from the grave with the sounding of the last trump . |
| 30 | Once , when stationed at Pulham in Norfolk , his commanding officer told him that a naval airship was drifting from the North Sea entirely out of control , as both its engines had broken down . |