Example sentences of "[that] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Nutting , prosecuting , said that although he said nothing to detectives after his arrest , with a lock knife in his hand , they later found a chilling message daubed on his police cell wall . |
| 2 | But I 'm sure that once she joins you in the pool she will find it easy enough to slip into the flow of things . |
| 3 | ‘ I wo n't know that until I meet her at lunchtime . |
| 4 | The dealer then approaches the arms manufacturers telling them that if they appoint him as their agent , he will get them a contract in return for a percentage of the value of the transaction , which could be as low as 3 per cent , or as high as 15 depending on how specialized is the equipment required . |
| 5 | Before they started , he had warned his people on this , pointing out that if they allowed themselves to be delayed , they themselves would be in grave danger of being ridden down by their own fellows on the return charge . |
| 6 | ‘ Clients have to be — and are — aware that I 've got a young family and that if they ring me after 5pm there are likely to be children screaming for their tea in the background . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't you also think that if one meets someone in such a way — I mean , so weak and defenceless — something makes one surrender completely , so that one can not imagine ever being able to desert such a person ? ’ |
| 8 | Is it certain that if we divide it in alternative ways , and attach a value to the parts in each case , the sum will always be the same ? |
| 9 | We fail so utterly to reward responsible married women that if we give anything at all to single mothers we appear to be placing a premium — ‘ |
| 10 | We only know that if we treat it in the right way it will enable us to do wonderful things . |
| 11 | Yes , it 's , it 's possibly worth mentioning on that as well that , in comparison with the supply based , I mean the existing system is demand based , which is silly , because we have to have fire stations there even if they never go out , if they go out twice a year , we still have to have a fire station in loco , but with the demand based model that 's illustrated in A C C based initiative , it 's based on existing supply , and this authority has a fairly frugal level of supply in comparison with some other authorities , so what happens is that if you apply it to existing supply then we come out quite badly . |
| 12 | They say that if you take one in five children , that 's twenty per cent of children , that probably eighteen per cent of children with special needs can be dealt with in ordinary schools and that there would still be need for special facilities for the remaining two per cent . |
| 13 | well that 's what I say in all tablets and that if you take 'em for long you 'll become addictive to them |
| 14 | I think you 'll agree you 're in a much stronger position that if you left it for months , and then went back . |
| 15 | You know that if you kill yourself with fatigue , you 'll have no hours left at all . |
| 16 | He told me that if you put one in a box and tapped on the lid , it would knock back , thinking you were another beetle offering itself in marriage . ’ |
| 17 | And one of the things that these trainings help you is that if you expect something of a child then you 're much more likely to get it ! |
| 18 | The point about the shop is that erm it sells things on a medieval theme and more specifically it has we have this undertaking that if you see it in the house , you can buy it in the shop . |
| 19 | ‘ HERE is the new Shorter Oxford Dictionary of which the first thing that can be said with confidence is that if you drop it on your foot you will never walk unaided again ’ — Commentator Bernard Levin . |
| 20 | They 've shown that if you run it at the right speed and stuff it 's one of the most effective methods of doing it and erm the ones we say are the nice little plate compactors which are the best thing , they are useless in comparative performance so |
| 21 | He warned me that if I told anyone about it , he would just deny it outright . |
| 22 | Now we 're fortunate with with this that if I turn it on it 's very quiet but if any of you had and I 'm sure Jeff you 've probably seen it where you get some older machines and the fan in there rattles like mad and there 's nothing worse than having that thing rattling all all the day . |
| 23 | But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . ) |
| 24 | Reeling somewhat from the gin concoction , and making for the captain 's office , I console myself with the thought that if I need anything from an appendectomy to open heart surgery , there is no shortage of equipment or expertise to hand . |
| 25 | I suppose I knew what your reaction would be , but thought in my arrogance that if I presented you with a fait accompli , the sale of the land , your money back , you 'd be so overwhelmed with gratitude that you 'd immediately fall into my arms . ’ |
| 26 | It was because he told me he had seen a woman more beautiful than me , and said that if I wanted him as a husband , I must marry him at once ! |
| 27 | ‘ Alex felt that if I selected him for the Poland game , he should play and try to help us get the result before announcing his retirement , and that was Bryan 's intention . ’ |
| 28 | At the back of my mind I must have hoped that if I telephoned him in advance , Helmut would help in this way . |
| 29 | I found that if I immersed myself in what I was doing , the people respected my work and usually kept quiet , aware of my concentration . |
| 30 | He knows that if he helps them in time of need , they will reciprocate without being asked . |