Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It 's not very often that I come down from the pulpit but I feel this would be a genuinely worthwhile exercise , ’ he said . |
2 | erm , you have , I have n't , and erm , there was a photograph that I cut out of the paper sometime before he abdicated , over the Prince of Wales at the races with Mrs Simpson . |
3 | It was only after I 'd stopped doing that and gone into the corner to have a piss that I looked over into the other corner where there was a pile of rusty cans and old bottles ; there I saw the jagged stripes of the sleeping snake . |
4 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
5 | That I got up in the night and walked into an open press . ’ |
6 | The bad news is that the good news made me feel so relieved and excited that I ran out to a bar and drank a bunch of big ones . |
7 | It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak . |
8 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
9 | It was n't until some years later that I came back to the question of the receptors and showed that the most dramatic effects involved the NMDA glutamate receptor I mentioned in the last chapter ( but wo n't discuss further here ) . |
10 | That I came out of an egg . ’ |
11 | I had n't intended to speak on the external affairs section , but the discussion had widened so much that I came in with the attached remarks . |
12 | At about the same time that I went up into the Boys ' School , my friend Hubert Gould moved away to Bournemouth and my other friend Alf Norris moved from The Friary to Greencroft Street and , as this was only two hundred yards from our house , we saw quite a lot of each other . |
13 | Erm that I went through at the beginning you know which is basically write to lots of people |
14 | In my own defence I can say only that I went along for the ride , as it were , if you 'll forgive the expression , Mr Milton . ’ |
15 | The figures that I quoted were given in a written answer to a question that I put down about the cutbacks in regional preferential assistance . |
16 | The only person that I know about at the playhouse is Gordon . |
17 | So good am I that I turn round on the runners to photograph Tony . |
18 | But this was a wee sort of lump that I had down at the bottom of my vagina . |
19 | Expenditures , er some of the the er higher amounts are printing at ninety pounds fifty , cons conference fees at sixty pounds , er Euro Election er donation of twenty five pounds , photocopies of forty pounds , er bank charges Which er was a point that I took up with the bank erm Mr Chairman last December . |
20 | If you do your environmental recycling I 've got a thing that I took out of a magazine that 's got all the addresses of erm of of the various thing for recycling paper |
21 | Which is a bloody good thing , really that I started off with the tape , hands |
22 | I 've already revealed that I started out in a donkey jacket , but I should add that it took me at least ten years to get a decent kit . |
23 | But the wind was behind me and each wave picked up the boat and surged her ahead , so that I tied up at the pier some fifteen hours after I had left , a little tired but satisfied that another small gap in our knowledge of birds had been filled . |
24 | So was it very surprising that I picked up on the African presence moving around the island ? |
25 | allow and they reckon that soft ones are better suited too sports because , because of the great action they 're harder to , to knock out , whereas soft ones er , have better other qualities , I 've got this little fucking book , book that I picked up in the Boots in Farnborough the other day yes , its quite interesting . |
26 | The main points that I picked out from the game affecting the law changes are : |
27 | ‘ It was important that I moved on to a bigger stage , with a club in the top bracket of the English First Division , or Celtic and Rangers . ’ |
28 | But on the other hand , the bibliography for the Tate catalogue required that I look back at a lot of old notices and I find that my perception was not at all valid . |
29 | But I , I , I know that I missed out on the , the private education one because I should 've come back on that . |
30 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |