Example sentences of "that [pron] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth is that my women friends really would n't feel much better if they were 19 going on 20 , 29 approaching 30 or nudging the big Four-O . |
| 2 | I can not say that my school days were particularly happy ones and I was not sorry to leave when I got to the official leaving age , which was fourteen in those days . |
| 3 | It appeared that my cousin John Reed , who had spent and wasted all his money and some of his mother 's , and been in debt or in prison most of his life , had killed himself a week before . |
| 4 | I feel sure that my grassroots viewpoint faded into insignificance , as the pundits , the consultants and the chief executives prepare to do battle . |
| 5 | To me , it seems that my felt desire for coffee is the cause of my going to the kitchen . |
| 6 | He is a media manipulator of genius , so adept at the mechanics of mass communication that he pauses mid-sentence when he sees that my cassette recorder has run out of tape , waiting patiently until I have inserted a new cassette before carrying on with what he was saying from exactly where he stopped . |
| 7 | Will Compact demands regarding Work Experience , Mini-Enterprise etc. , mean that my subject teaching suffers in terms of time and commitment ? |
| 8 | I can not truthfully say that my work experience directly influenced my ambitions career wise but it did show me that the music business is not about ‘ Top of the Pops ’ but about a day 's work to be proud of . |
| 9 | As the mother of two sons myself , I now find my childhood reaction extreme , and am led to suspect that my separation anxiety originated some time before the birth of my sister . |
| 10 | I had already decided that my degree thesis would be on the life of this underrated painter from Milan . |
| 11 | Here it was , I believe , that my hero Frank Buckland , the writer , naturalist and Mayhew-like chronicler of London life , had jumped into the water in order to imagine himself a salmon . |
| 12 | Seeing that my daughter Anna has not availed herself of my advice touching the objectionable practice of going about with her arms bare to the elbows , my will is that , should she continue after my death this violation of the modesty of her sex , all goods , chattels , moneys , land , and other that I have devised to her for the maintenance of her future life shall pass to the oldest of the sons of my sister Caroline . |
| 13 | It was so frightful that my daughter Lilya and I stopped travelling by car together . |
| 14 | One of the qualifications , according to Lord Lloyd , was polo , but he considered that this was not essential , but that my Cert A , my apparent taste for adventure , and , I suspect , Eliot 's backing , were enough to justify his appointing me . |
| 15 | ‘ But you just have to put it all behind you and I just hope that my back trouble will clear up and I 'll be able to start playing again soon ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ It is my wish that my Clerk Mr. Prince who is well acquainted with my business and affairs and in whom I place great confidence should continue in the management and conduct of the same … to sell and dispose or exchange all or any of my works on Ornithology and specimens of Natural History in the manner I have been accustom to do … to continue or complete as far as practicable the publication of any work or works of mine on Ornithology and to do all other [ illegible ] by issuing a Prospectus advertising the same … to purchase all necessary materials articles and things fit and proper for the carrying on of my business … to borrow for a temporary period any money from my Bankers , Messrs Drummond and Company … and if there by any surplus available for the purpose to invest the same in purchase of Stock … to pay the rent and taxes … make up , adjust and settle all and every or any Accounts … [ and generally ] to do perform and execute all and every or any other acts deeds matters and things whatsoever are necessary to be done in all other my concerns engagements affairs and business whatsoever during my absence from England as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as I myself might or could do if I were personally present and did the same . ’ |
| 17 | There was an impression that my milkmaid friend was what is called well-connected , and I am glad to say that as she grew old she was , as it were , gathered in , to be near her relatives . |
| 18 | Among the items Jean-Claude chose were antiquarian books given to me by Helmut in the expectation that my reading horizons , which stretched no further than the English classics , might be enlarged by beautiful print and binding and lavish illustra-tions , and a collection of now rare pre-war recordings of the Beethoven quartets and the song-cycles of Schumann and Schubert recorded in private performances . |
| 19 | It turned out that my Homo Pacificus came from Dusseldorf . |
| 20 | So I phoned them up in the afternoon and I said the bicycle that my friend Mr reported yesterday afternoon is still in the bushes . |
| 21 | Or when I come down with psychosomatic diseases so that my wife babies me and Huxley and Hooker fight all my battles . |
| 22 | She knew too well that my afternoon times of quiet were often cut short by a ‘ jam session ’ . |
| 23 | I mean you 'll find that my home number 's on here and tha because I will advise you from home during the week , I 'm quite happy for |
| 24 | The arrival of Deacon Billingsley should have given me the satisfaction that my telephone call had been treated seriously , but I sensed this policeman was not going to offer me any satisfaction at all . |
| 25 | All the documentation states that my Video chip is a standard VGA , built onto the motherboard . |
| 26 | I give my commitment to [ the children of Australia ] that my generation will hand on … a better country " . |
| 27 | However , I felt we still needed more trials so that I could prove without doubt that my inch loss theory worked . |
| 28 | It was many years later that my foreboding dream came true . |
| 29 | I mean I think that my principle desire is that they pay their er they contribute to our income and pay their rent regularly and are able to do so . |
| 30 | ‘ Critics have found me narrow , ’ his opening paragraph continues , ‘ and I have no doubt that my opening proposition , whatever I may say to explain and justify it , will be adduced in reinforcement of their strictures , ’ adding bitterly that ‘ the only way to escape misrepresentation is never to … say anything . ’ |