Example sentences of "[noun] to [pers pn] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leader of Tory-run Suffolk County Council , Chris Penn , said : ‘ It is obviously a disappointment to us that he will not be able to stand in May because of his private circumstances . ’ |
| 2 | He 'd put his mind to it that he would n't , you know this he had it in mind that we were going to work for this thirty pound a week less , take it or leave it . |
| 3 | Emelia Kanthack commented that she ‘ always approached my East End patients with my very best manners and extended the same little courteous considerations to them that I would have served towards a lady ’ . |
| 4 | It never was matter for such fear to me that I must have tried to silence him . |
| 5 | He subsequently served as its legal adviser , and it is thanks to him that it obtained its Light Railway Order and was enabled to operate under a lease agreement until purchase negotiations were concluded . |
| 6 | It was thanks to them that he learned that the hunt was on for a leak on the Washington embassy wartime staff which could only have been Maclean . |
| 7 | It 's thanks to you that he 's in this mess right now . |
| 8 | There were seven of them , and it was a source of perpetual wonder to me that they 'd ever learned to speak their own languages , never mind anyone else 's . |
| 9 | A child , after all , knows most of the game … it is only an attitude to it that he lacks . |
| 10 | It has been a great joy to me that we have remained a very close family . |
| 11 | So persistent was the language that it had become no more remarkable than just another wayward manner of speaking and their sons paid so little attention to it that it might well have been one of the many private languages of love . |
| 12 | I think I have to make the point to you that we are planning to roughly double the size of the er airforce equipment programme er between now and the end of the century , a very substantial chunk of that is E F two thousand and its er associated weapon systems and , you know , one has to frankly , take er a view on priorities er in the light of the strategic requirement and given the er extent of the threat as we see it , the possibility of using er of taking part in out of area operations in coalitions , that kind of thing , that was the judgement we took er the medium term priorities were such that we could n't afford the first er stage of A M S A M. |
| 13 | But from my own researches it became plain to me that she was very much a person of her times , as compared with Beatrice Webb who became so much a critic of her times . |
| 14 | It seems plain to me that you do n't love Silas . |
| 15 | Though stated as a rule of absolute liability , there ‘ are so many exceptions to it that it is doubtful whether there is much of the rule left . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It 's all the more credit to him that he 's got his goals in this era . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm sure she wants you to extend the same warmth to her that you extend to me by using my first name . ’ |
| 18 | When Owen had first arrived in the building Yussuf had decided , unilaterally , to be his bearer and now it was a source of great pride to him that he was the one who carried the Mamur Zapt 's messages . |
| 19 | It is a matter of pride to us that we can boast of several scholars , in the first rank , who are not university teachers . |
| 20 | It is with no disrespect to her that I give him preference . |
| 21 | At the risk of having you bellow down the phone to me that it 's none of my business , I think you made a big mistake . |
| 22 | I am about to impart knowledge to you that you will never be able to forget . |
| 23 | It was no shock to him that he should be marketed in his turn . |
| 24 | THE French love to smoke and it will come as a shock to them that they can no longer enjoy their Gauloises cigarettes in public . |
| 25 | All that happened at Bourani was in the nature of a private masque ; and no doubt the passage was a hint to me that I should , both out of politeness and for my own pleasure , not poke my nose behind the scenes . |
| 26 | ‘ The police are coming up the valley , Mr President , ’ he warned , as a hint to him that he should tidy himself . |
| 27 | It was a signal to us that he was moving on . ’ |
| 28 | The Russians were determined to remove every last item of its inventory , down to the lavatory brushes and the steel tracks on which the dockyard trains ran : indeed it was a miracle to me that they did not demand the cobblestones as well . |
| 29 | The next year we were at Muirfield and I also did the Canada Cup with Peter the following year , 1960 , and here he broke the news to me that he wanted to use his regular St Andrews caddie Wal Gillespie for the 1960 Open . |
| 30 | ‘ At the moment I am just flowing with the tide , following whatever is on offer to me that I like . |