Example sentences of "a [noun] that [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | because where all the sort of a route that I reckon I know I , I am not gon na know it all . |
| 2 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
| 3 | Now children am I right in thinking that when Mrs came in and took some lessons with you when I was on a course that she taught you how to count up to thirty ? |
| 4 | There is a story that they bet him a substantial sum that he could not read a certain number of books of the Bible without talking . |
| 5 | Thresher manager David Newton and assistant John Onanuga are suspended on full pay for ‘ inventing ’ a story that they sold him Champagne at £15.49 and Raffles cigarettes at £1.98 . |
| 6 | They missed a few kicks at goal but they nailed Northampton to their line and worked up such a storm that they had them scurrying all ways . |
| 7 | ‘ It is a coincidence that they announced it on the eve of my press conference , ’ he admitted . |
| 8 | The courtly interpreter of the festival , a Tunisian , after giving him some hashish jam , said to him in a tent that he hoped he had peace of mind . |
| 9 | I was n't sure if this was a reproach that he deserted her the rest of the year . |
| 10 | [ reading ] " I always thought my young master a fine gentleman as everybody says he is , but he gave these good things to us with such a graciousness that I thought he looked like an angel . " |
| 11 | She is so slowed down by the dope slamming fifty visions of hell at her a second that she finds it hard to fight , hard to believe in her own anger , hard to believe in what she 's doing . |
| 12 | The sea was such a mess that it took him a few moments to be sure of the reef . |
| 13 | I , I take My Noble Friend 's point indeed , but I think nonetheless er that er I have to say that there is a degree that we put it this way of understanding of how the process works rather more informally than the manner in which my Noble Friend has put it . |
| 14 | Believing his benefactor to be Miss Havisham , he nourishes a fantasy that she intends him to marry Estella , whom he continues to love passionately , ‘ against reason , against promise , against peace , against hope , against happiness , against all discouragement there could be ’ . |
| 15 | Ooh that 's a shame that you missed her , bloody hell . |
| 16 | Could it be that what he was feeling was a kind of envy , in the sense that he 'd brought her here , to a place that he felt he 'd made his own , and in a matter of weeks she 'd already grown closer to it than he could ever hope to be ? |
| 17 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |
| 18 | The hand under hers clenched on the settee cushion , his face went red , and his eyes flashed such vindictive rage for a moment that she thought he would hit her , then he controlled himself , sitting silently by her on the settee , until she felt his hand gradually relax . |
| 19 | So much is at stake when you start a job that you owe it to yourself to think all the implications through . |
| 20 | You , who wanted me to enter you on the same night , with the same sound still in my head , a sound that I knew I had somehow , somewhere , heard before . |
| 21 | Then it was meant to be Detroit , Chicago , St Louis and work its way west and end in Los Angeles but word of mouth , the cover story in Rolling Stone which Tony coerced out of them , and various other things created such a sensation that they lengthened it . |
| 22 | He realized with a shock that they reminded him of steers he had once seen in a railroad siding back home in Richmond , Virginia , crowded uncomprehendingly in trucks bound for the slaughterhouse . |
| 23 | Benny realized with a shock that he meant it , and began to have second thoughts . |
| 24 | She said with a shock that she realised she had grown up among the men on her father 's farm without seeing them as people you could conceivably fancy . |
| 25 | But Preston found he was scanning the crowd at about the right height for an eight-year-old child , and it was only after a while that he realised he was looking for Uncle Titch . |
| 26 | It was only a chance that I rang her . |
| 27 | A magistrate who 's on trial for attempting to gas his former wife has told a court that she set him up . |
| 28 | Then his wife was frightened , and she said , " It is only a tale that I told you to ease your heart . |
| 29 | In actual fact my walking stick and gloves are ( I am almost too ashamed to admit ) an elaborate affectation which has by degrees grown into such a habit that I find it difficult , if not impossible , to lay them aside . |
| 30 | At least I you see , with the virus I was sometimes in such a state that I thought I might have bowel cancer |