Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furious at being treated as if she were a brainless bimbo , she raised her eyebrows , giving him back such a measured look that he actually coloured a little and moved away . |
| 2 | All I can do now is praise the NME for finally showing him to be the xenophobic shit that he really is . |
| 3 | Since the dividing line is somewhat hazy , check with your architect or other professional adviser that he/she fully understands the technical requirements . |
| 4 | It was a further proof of Thomas Carter 's blissful innocence that he evidently had no idea that his swimming-pool , tennis court , fitted kitchen and high-tech appliances were as contemptible to the class whose values he so admired as the Parsons ' van Gogh prints and Dacron three-piece suite . |
| 5 | So when my parent says to me , give those two units of parental investment that I just gave you , to , to offspring B I do n't want to , because the benefit to offspring B , or rather the genes I share with offspring B , does n't compensate sate me for the , for the sacrifice . |
| 6 | Dot 's heart began pounding , first with anxiety , then with an irrational hope that it just might be Mr Brown who was back . |
| 7 | It was , however , through this sister that she eventually found out where her daughter was . |
| 8 | I suddenly realized recently that I 'm so far short of having any kind of representational experience that I just do n't know what 's going on in this country . |
| 9 | It is a tribute to how far we have come already in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform an experiment whose results we can not predict . |
| 10 | Several other chairmen wanted a concerted public admission that they too had inadvertently breached the regulations ( and it was indeed difficult to avoid technical breaches of the detailed regulations ) , but the choice was made rather to maintain a prudential low profile . |
| 11 | Some farmers have been so convinced by industry-generated publicity over the absence of a proper income that they just have n't bothered declaring any income . |
| 12 | force my opponent to take some action that he currently is not taking ? |
| 13 | Women are making such progress in the world of French crime that they sometimes seem to be monopolising the police report headlines . |
| 14 | If you have upgraded to MS-DOS 5 then you have a free bonus that it almost worth the cost of the upgrade on its own — QBasic . |
| 15 | Our participants had the clear perception that they also have powers within the classroom , conceived as a specific social setting , and they act to establish themselves and their powers . |
| 16 | A few words of friendship , some indication that she now bore no grudge about the job . |
| 17 | Behind him he could hear one of the boys mutter that Mr Wilson had gone mad , and another reply that he always had been . |
| 18 | It is to this exercise that we now turn . |
| 19 | Now I would urge this council that it really is too early in the process for you to start making up your minds about what you 're gon na in future . |
| 20 | The old adage that you only get out what you put in becomes very meaningful and it is only too easy to miss an employee out of a list because a code has been entered incorrectly or because information is inconsistent . |
| 21 | It was in this period that they too were cleared , drained and divided into fields and new patterns of occupation were established within them . |
| 22 | And it was so lovely to see a bathful of hot water and a proper place that I almost did n't care . |
| 23 | The steam tank is another device that I personally think every Empire army should have . |
| 24 | Oh this place that you where you would n't get a handbag stolen and all that . |
| 25 | I should say at this point that I never read my own articles once they have appeared in print . |
| 26 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |
| 27 | It is to these experiences of unemployment and social security that we now turn . |
| 28 | The ‘ unit of desire ’ however , is admitted to be a presumption , but if it were possible to prove with scientific exactitude that it really existed then it would not be within the province of religion at all , but of science . |
| 29 | I assure my hon. Friend that I very much look forward to visiting his constituency and to meeting some of the industrialists whose interests he energetically represents . |
| 30 | Virtually noone at this level uses the high elbow that we commonly teach in the UK . |