Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was not until years later that I heard about the societies known as Buffaloes and Foresters . |
| 32 | It was through them that I heard about the forthcoming penny farthing races at Ferrymead Historic Park , on Waitangi Day ( the NZ national day , Feb. 6th ) . |
| 33 | This was a very comforting thing , although I must admit that I heard of no cases occurring in the period that I was in Mespot . |
| 34 | Sir — It was with deep sadness that I heard of the death of Fred Daly , to date the only Irish winner of The Open . |
| 35 | It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger . |
| 36 | It was one of the few references to the former prime minister 's gender that I heard during the whole week of leadership crise . |
| 37 | Suppose that I point at a chair and say ‘ By ‘ chair ’ I mean that ’ , nothing in what I have done creates the desired meaning for the word ‘ chair ’ unless I can further characterise what it is about the object I am pointing to that I am taking as relevant ; for example , I might say ‘ that sort of furniture ’ , and this would improve matters , but I have to have the concept of furniture first . |
| 38 | With hindsight , it was inevitable my application to continue full-time study would be refused , for in their eyes I had wandered long enough in the margins and so my hierarchy now ordered that I return to the basics of uniform police duties . |
| 39 | It is against that background that I return to the conclusion of the majority of the Court of Appeal that the mere fact that Wickes might be able to advance such an argument founded upon article 30 , which was at least not a groundless argument , compelled the Court of Appeal to require an undertaking in damages from the council . |
| 40 | I believe that the spending levels that we are now seeing , through the new scheme that I announced in the summer , vindicate the judgment I made because the £17 million that was spent in the two years of the initial scheme represents an average spend of £8.5 million . |
| 41 | They were trying to insinuate that I belonged with the psychiatric patients . |
| 42 | ‘ I had to leave , ’ he said heavily , ‘ because my conscience dictated that I inform on the Nazis . ’ |
| 43 | I opened two bottles that I retrieved from the sticky mess on the cabin floor . |
| 44 | ‘ I realise that I come into the picture as a relative , and I do feel natural interest and concern for my great-uncle . |
| 45 | I 'm not er a great fan of the monarchy , although that I would say that I come from a family which is , devoted a large portion of it 's life in service and work to the royal family . |
| 46 | But I do n't think there were any anyone that I knew on the railway were not against nationalization . |
| 47 | erm I must confess I 've always had rather a soft spot for macro mutations , I do n't know why , it may have had something to do with Goldsmith 's prose , which is sort of rather moving when you get into it , erm and partly , and this is an interesting comment as an aside , that I knew as an undergraduate that to argue in favour of Goldsmith would make my teachers in general , and Professor J B S Halldane in particular , exceedingly angry and making one 's teachers angry is , after all , one of the activities into which undergraduates should occasionally go . |
| 48 | she assumed that I knew about the abilities and feelings of humans and cats , about houses , territory , and the socially stereotyped roles of women and men . |
| 49 | These are the ones that I saw on the |
| 50 | Also a photo of all the officers of Walsall that I saw in a second hand shop and I went and bought it for a few pence . |
| 51 | He recommended that I go to a hospital and see a psychiatrist . |
| 52 | Their reasoning — that ‘ when all safeguards are respected and the best interests of the patient are taken into account , it is certainly not murder ’ — parallels the apparent logic behind the Soviet cleansing of antisocialist elements , the Indian practice of murder/suicide of widows , and the infanticide that I observed among the Tsamai in south-west Ethiopia . |
| 53 | Tt and er one of the passages that I read during the service , is this one , psalm a hundred . |
| 54 | One of my constituents that I read in the newspaper about the erm , the green way in which the party should be moving , and said that erm , he would like me to express my disquiet to and I thought this , perhaps this would be quite a useful place to his disquiet , but Council tax money is being spend on this sort of erm , work when there are far more urgent erm , services needed in the County , and he would much rather have the highways , er , money from , which is now going into the Environment to go into highways , erm , so as er , Chairman council , I 'm passing his comments on to you , through this committee . |
| 55 | That was the one thing that was that I read in the books that it was kind of tradition for the men to wear black . |
| 56 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 57 | Now that my sons are becoming more independent , I have time for myself and confidence in middle age that I lacked as a youngster . |
| 58 | It seems that I count as a visitor . ’ |
| 59 | I confirm that I returned from the Gulf late last night . |
| 60 | I give all the children vitamin drops that I get from the clinic but I sometimes wonder whether they 're really necessary . |