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

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1 It would probably add to the complications in my life but it would probably lessen the hours that I have on my own , though God knows , I do n't do too badly .
2 Erm , I pressed yes for having liking my own body , and I do , erm but I also like the slight improvements that I make on it like erm my hair
3 I sent you the articles that I had in my scrapbook from Colesfield on October tenth , I am looking now at the ones from Gdynia , Poland , on October ninth and its headlines Port Libs hit Poland and Prussia with vast damage caused by wrecker raid on four targets deep in the East , Gdynia , Danzig , German plane plants are blasting great weekend blitz , Bremen and Hanover get it again .
4 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 .
5 One of the first things that I noticed in my workplace was that there was an entrenched , hostile division between Black and white colleagues .
6 And , and those are really the two last things that I had on mine , on my list .
7 It dries up too ; it cakes all over me ; sometimes I feel there is not enough soap in the whole world to cleanse me from the things that I did in your name … ’
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 I 've put a list up erm for the things that I want for my birthday .
10 I have of late had two letters from him , in which he has shown such an easy and familiar way of expressing his thoughts , such a delight for improvement and so much exactness and dilligence in the making of observations that I look upon him to go onward with a curiosity and genious superior to most of his occupation .
11 The figures that I have before me certainly show that the highest spending authorities comprise almost entirely Labour and the occasional Liberal authority and that those have some of the worst results .
12 The fixed positions that I saw with you
13 I remind her that , following President Yeltsin 's recent visit and the welcome changes in connection with what is a hugely large arsenal of nuclear weapons , the top priority of proliferation at present is to ensure that we take action in the ways that I described in my answer .
14 Because at the moment , er I mean they spend a lot of money on various footpaths that I know of which are a tremendous er price so let's be a bit cautious you know , because er
15 Although there are no hon. Members from Scottish constituencies in their places at the moment , my hon. Friend the Minister made a passing reference to Scotland , which is one of the issues that I discussed with him the other evening .
16 Try to get some er old door casings rip down from me you know , now , I was thinking of going to North Wales but I know what they 'd say cos it , the ones that I got from our Rob 's you know the they 're quite clean but of course they 've had nails in the , you know , the head like I made the cab some cabinets you know .
17 I could go on , but I think that I can make my points simply and graphically by quoting from the documents that I have with me .
18 Yeah it 's recording at the moment , I just have to record basic conversations that I have with anybody .
19 We can stage a little comedy for ourselves if we pick out two expressions that I used in my last paragraph , and imagine ourselves presenting them to the startled and unwelcoming gaze of Max Beerbohm .
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