Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He feasted for months , for years , on a small pair of my slippers that I gave him ; I expect he has burnt them by now . |
| 2 | I see from my files that you asked us to reserve a copy of the OALDCE 3/e computer tape for your the University of Edinburgh . |
| 3 | Early in my first tour I argued with my colleagues that I doubted it would be possible to ditch a Wimpy or a Whitley on water , particularly if there was a heavy swell . |
| 4 | I had beaten so many of my idols that I hope it does n't sound too arrogant to say that I was proud of my performance . |
| 5 | They complained so much that not enough time had been allowed them for their discussions that we had them back a second week . |
| 6 | Ruth did not have to finish what she had begun to say ; she saw from the look in their eyes that they understood her . |
| 7 | She looked so pornographic in her gimmicks that I wanted her to take them off again , or better , much better , push bits of them aside . |
| 8 | Perhaps some hon. Members will be quite content to say to their constituents that they understand their problems and sympathise , but that there is nothing that they can do about them as the matter is out of their hands . |
| 9 | Vortigern was so taken by her charms that he took her for his wife . |
| 10 | ‘ Peter Brooke should also , ’ he writes , ‘ persuade the Chairman and Chief Executive ( of Channel 4 ) that , even though it may cause them some embarrassment , it is in their interests that they commit themselves fully to telling the public the truth and to assisting the police and the Director of Public Prosecutions . ’ |
| 11 | It was only when he drew her back by her arms that she opened her eyes wide and stared at him . |
| 12 | I had few friends , just one or two left over from school , but on the infrequent occasions when we met I could see from their faces that they pitied me , finding me foolish and Syl a bore . |
| 13 | Shiona could see from his eyes that he meant it . |
| 14 | Michael could see by the look in his eyes that he knew who had ordered his accident . |
| 15 | It is at his feet that we throw ourselves like the bound figures which form the pedestal of this statue ( one captive looks upward with adoring eyes ) . |
| 16 | Was he really so unbelievably sure of his charms that he thought he had only to indicate his wishes for them to be fulfilled ? |
| 17 | The Beggar claims it is by speaking of his troubles that he has himself been cured , after a severe change of fortune which has brought him from wealth to his present condition . |
| 18 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 19 | I reckon he has got a law case on his hands that he thinks he might lose . |
| 20 | And his tzedaka — the performance of charitable deeds enjoined on him by his religion — won him the gratitude and loyalty of many of the young men and their dependants , for it was as his travellers that they made their weekly Monday-morning trek to the country , secure in the knowledge that , no matter how erratic the week 's takings might be , their basic wage was guaranteed by Max Klein . |
| 21 | One aim is to make the familiar look unfamiliar and he says it was only when he referred back to his photographs after completing many of his drawings that he realised what he had missed . |
| 22 | One essential was that the head had to make it clear to his colleagues that he trusted them . |
| 23 | He himself admitted so when he emerged , telling his followers that he thought he had killed Comyn , whereupon one of them rushed in ‘ to mak siccar ’ ( make sure ) : the Kirkpatricks of Dumfries have ever since carried the emblem of a bloody hand with dagger and the motto ‘ I mak siccar ’ on their coat of arms . |
| 24 | If you do give your heroine this skill you will have to some extent to prove to your readers that she had it . |
| 25 | While it is through the physical senses that we experience the world , it is largely through our emotions that we interpret it and our relationship to it . |
| 26 | ‘ It was not until I saw how Messer Bartolomeo 's news was received by your friends that I realised its importance for you . ’ |
| 27 | We believe that it can only be in our interests that they get it right . |
| 28 | Indeed , it is from our failures that we learn our most valuable lessons . |
| 29 | On the other hand , T. Rex might have looked really good but everything else about them was so naïve and teenybopperish that you could n't really admit to your mates that you liked them . |
| 30 | After all , if those two boys had died , it would have been on our consciences that we saw them get into difficulty and did nothing . |