Example sentences of "[noun] that i [verb] to [pron] " in BNC.

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1 In effect , all my mother 's female paternal kin are called by the same term that I apply to my ‘ mother ’ ; and all her male paternal kin are designated ‘ mother 's brother ’ without reference to their generational position .
2 If , for example , I call my mother' brother 's son by the same term that I apply to my mother 's brother , the implication is that I share a common relationship with both .
3 It is with the greatest possible pleasure that I write to you once more , this time to confirm that your Company 's independence has been preserved after a battle which has lasted over nine months .
4 ‘ And ‘ t was not for the hand of a child that I wrote to your father a year later . ’
5 The Prime Minister answered a question that I put to him earlier this year by referring to the fact that he did not believe that I live in the real world .
6 the main point that I made to him was that after such a superb beginning where , where they actually state how much rubbish we produce , there 's absolutely no mention even though there 's space at the bottom there 's no mention of recycling at all .
7 I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms .
8 everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ?
9 When I refused him , he reluctantly — on the evidence of my bank account — wrote me out permission for four weeks , with the proviso that I return to his office every four weeks … .
10 Thus it was with a certain amount of relief that I acceded to our editor 's request to look at FloorPlan Plus , ( FP from hereon ) which promises to make this kind of thing much easier to sort out .
11 It could read something like this : It is with continued concern that I write to you about the suffering of the Cambodian people and put forward the following suggestions re where government aid should be concentrated .
12 he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins .
13 I refer my hon. Friend to the answer that I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Gravesham ( Mr. Arnold ) some moments ago .
14 Now another general point which I dare n't put on the slide is that during this , the next sort of hour or so , or two hours , erm , some of you will almost certainly become insulted with the way that I talk to you .
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