Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nearby the sea terns and eider ducks were nesting , the ducks beautifully camouflaged , sitting tight as long as they could , then moving quickly to reveal eggs of a gorgeous sage green looking so warm in their nest of breast feathers that it made me long for the comforts of my sleeping bag . |
| 32 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 33 | Atkinson ( the manager ) says his bottom-of-the-table team were so bad in one of the five defeats they have suffered in eight First Division games that he found himself joining in with the cries for his dismissal . |
| 34 | If you need to have your gas fire or gas cooker connected when you arrive at your new place , make sure that you tell the gas board that you need someone there on the day . |
| 35 | Why does not he tell Russia and the other former Soviet Union countries that we want them to get rid of nuclear weapons ? |
| 36 | Also the ‘ I 'll be back ’ WAV file that you say you assigned to Windows events and the internal speaker driver , are not supplied with Windows 3.1 . |
| 37 | That sweatshirt top that I got which was seventeen ninety nine . |
| 38 | It is a more sophisticated account than the simple trait and style theories that we began our account with . |
| 39 | When the children were ill , she dosed them with herb teas that she brewed herself . |
| 40 | You will now release me : the resulting implication being that I bought my freedom at the expense of his . |
| 41 | This explanation is borne out by the remark of one middle-class housewife : ‘ I do n't go about feeling discontented ’ , the implication being that she thinks she might be expected to do so . |
| 42 | Not all of those with a long standing illness report that it restricts their activity . |
| 43 | Richard is said to have favoured the axe as a hand-to-hand weapon , and a contemporary poem records that he had one made specially before departing for the Holy Land : |
| 44 | They 're , when you 're talking about the normal household gloss , yes it is flammable but it 's not a , nowhere near as flammable as your cellulose thinners that you spray your car with and things like that , your touch up sprays , because it does n't contain the amount of petroleum adhesive er additive I should say , in the er in its mixture as does er |
| 45 | Brian Hillier agreed with the defence suggestion that he had nothing to fear from any so-called threats , he had already resigned from the club and he was awaiting trial for cheating the taxman . |
| 46 | Nevertheless , even though having angles equal to two right angles is not part of a triangle 's essence , it is because it is a three-sided plane figure that it has them . |
| 47 | It was for the Bank team that he performed his most noteworthy cricket feat , when against Earlswood CC in 1981 he performed the hat trick with his slow off-spinners at the age of 76 . |
| 48 | You work so hard as my farm manager that I want you to have a larger share of the profits . |
| 49 | Within a few years of transfer to the South Metropolitan system , all these cars had the headlamps moved from the canopy front to the usual position on the dash , one reason being that it enabled them to carry advertisements in the same positions as the rest of the fleet . |
| 50 | But every project sheet that we produce you 're looking at two or three hundred pounds for each sheet . |
| 51 | None of these expressions implies of itself that God as God suffers as we do , still less , as is suggested in Margaret Spufford 's quotation from The Man on a Donkey , in her book Celebration that He renders Himself ‘ powerless against the free and evil wills of men ’ . |
| 52 | To this extent the wheel has turned full circle and the NHS is back where it was when Mrs Thatcher was so irritated by stories of bad news about health services that she announced her review of the NHS . |
| 53 | I do n't suppose it 's serious , but he 's so terrified of Blue Ear Disease that he watches them like a hawk . ’ |
| 54 | An Amex gold card that I suspect he ca n't use . |
| 55 | Spring bedding plants that you raise yourself provide a much cheaper spring display than bulbs . |
| 56 | It goes without saying that almost invariably the instances of animal behaviour that we find ourselves discussing involve adult creatures . |
| 57 | It was while she was looking for his record folder in the filing cabinet that she realised her hands were trembling . |
| 58 | It 's reduced the pay rates the overall pay rates that we pay them . |
| 59 | It was not until he had accepted and had received travel instructions that he found himself at Bletchley Park as part of the Enigma team reading German cypher traffic . |
| 60 | Also , my brother was such a good trumpet player that I knew I would never be as good as he was , so there was that in there too : like , ‘ God , I do n't really want follow in this guy 's footsteps . ' ’ |