Example sentences of "[noun pl] that i [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | So many people ply me with drinks in the D and F these days that I tend to remember them as I saw them , in a blur . |
2 | ‘ I tell you , Charles , it was only after I heard that they 'd signed up Micky Banks that I agreed to do it . |
3 | I mean for example if they walked in the room right now I 'm sure you 'd introduce me so I 'm really saying is look can you give me a telephone number , I 'll give them a chat and in fact , by the way , if you do see him within the next couple of days or so please give him a shout , let me know that you 've been quite excited about some of the ideas that I 've shown you this evening , I wan na do the same thing for him , you know , nothing gained nothing ventured nothing lost . |
4 | I really ca n't answer for David because in all the years that I 've known him , I always actually found him a rather cold person , even when I was 14 and he was 16 , even as boy and girlfriend . |
5 | Through the years that I 'd known him , I 'd watched him grow in mind and body and now felt a twinge of pride that he had grown so well . |
6 | ‘ They are a breed that will enjoy a long walk and they are excellent car travellers — in the 34 years that I have owned them I have never known one to be car sick , ’ she added . |
7 | Now before you go racing ahead there 's a couple of things that I need to tell you , so can I show you how to do the first one , and then you can race on with it . |
8 | And I just go through all the catastrophes that I 've bought you , so from now on it 's cash , just cash . |
9 | Faced with the great variety of distinctions that I have indicated we may ask whether they can in fact be brought within the compass of a single typology . |
10 | What made it worse was that in order to explain the frustrations that I had experienced I found myself making stereotyping judgments about Africans as lazy — not even caring to look after themselves — and as unreliable . |
11 | One of the two tasks that I 've set you since we met in September , what are the two big tasks that we 've concentrated on ? |
12 | Field work to acquire the specimens that I drew took me scuba-diving in the warm , subtropical waters of Natal and Zululand and braving seasickness on a research ship off the Transkei coast . |
13 | ‘ This time , Claudine was handing out heavy hints that I have kept her waiting too long . |
14 | They were standing now , in the as bomb-hit kitchen , Rab and Doctor ; and Doctor — she was taller than him , what with her feather and hat , by a good head — said , ‘ Those pills that I 've given you , take them only as prescribed . |