Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Given that artists such as Sonia Boyce , Brenda Agard and Jennifer Comrie were first brought to a wider public 's notice in these exhibitions curated by Lubaina , it is not surprising that we owe her a debt which , given the current backlash against Blackwomen 's Creativity , we fear that we may never be able to repay . |
| 32 | They have asked that we give them a similar quantity from each department . |
| 33 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
| 34 | There is a story that they bet him a substantial sum that he could not read a certain number of books of the Bible without talking . |
| 35 | As long as you can show that they owed you a legal duty to be careful and have been negligent , damages could come your way . |
| 36 | My mum and dad deny that they make them a brew , but when I get home there 's usually 20 dirty cups outside the door . ’ |
| 37 | Adam took his GCSEs four years early and staff at St Hugh 's College Oxford were so impressed by his brilliance that they offered him a place . |
| 38 | While with Hofmann he had so successfully completed an investigation for Allsopps & Sons of Burton-on-Trent that they offered him an appointment as chemist at the brewery . |
| 39 | He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home . |
| 40 | But while the large number of coins means that they give us a large quantity of information , their small size and the consequent brevity of their inscriptions greatly restricts the level of interpretation we can make from them compared with , say , a lengthy edict of a Roman emperor fully inscribed on stone . |
| 41 | Safety validation of contractors was another item th that they give you a briefing of the meeting |
| 42 | If so , the arbitrator may make a separate recommendation to The Post Office that they give you an ‘ ex gratia ’ payment . |
| 43 | But one thing about our Asian men is that they think it a matter of pride that their women must not go out to work . |
| 44 | The fact that they reserved me a front row seat in the Big Top of their felicity did assist in throttling back the glooms . |
| 45 | I do n't know how they can make mistakes like that they send you a letter one minute and then on your rent book 's different . |
| 46 | EPC 's expertise brings significant benefits to its members in the water and process industries , and the club 's continuing expansion indicates that they find it a cost-effective extension of in-house resources , as well as a focal point for keeping abreast of developments in the field of effluent treatment . |
| 47 | I think that day that they gave me a lift home . |
| 48 | and then they informed me that it was out of stock so I wrote them rather a a polite letter saying that it took them a long to realize it was out of stock when it had been ordered in March and erm I thought their communi communicative system in their office was er non existent . |
| 49 | The sea was such a mess that it took him a few moments to be sure of the reef . |
| 50 | The music they played gradually grew familiar to Alice ; it was music for the violin , the famous Violin Concerto , and it sounded very strange on the flute and guitar , so strange that it took her a moment or two to recognize it . |
| 51 | Ironically , it was so bitter that it made him a liability to the early Fascist movement , from whose main body he was later to break away . |
| 52 | Two , our institute has its own hall and as this is now about seventy years old and was not particularly well built in the first place , you will understand that it costs us a good deal in money and effort to literally keep the roof over our heads . |
| 53 | ‘ All I know is that it cost me a lot of money to learn . ’ |
| 54 | I 've told you that it gives me a terrific edge in any sale where Kemp 's a bidder . |
| 55 | The only trouble is that it gives me an American accent . |
| 56 | This dietician saying that the architect w wants to know all about endoscop what it involves , so that it gives him an idea as to what is about . |
| 57 | The definition is adopted , of course , not merely for the reason that it gives us a further explanation of the difference between causal items and their effects . |
| 58 | If you are stuck in a boring job , concentrate on the fact that it is providing money for your needs and your pleasures and that it gives you a measure of independence . |
| 59 | I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world . |
| 60 | Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes . |