Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does seem though , that nothing came of these leases , and during 1749 upon request by Sir William Fleming , one John Lawson ( a Quaker ) sent up Joseph Vipone to see the mines at Coniston and for this Lawson paid him 12s. plus 4s. for a horse for four days . |
| 2 | I do not mean to imply , he wrote , that nothing existed before that moment , no plans , no designs , no sketches and no notes , of course there were plans and designs , sketches and notes , how could there not be , he wrote , when my whole life has been nothing but a preparation for this beginning , not only in the sense that everyone 's life is always a preparation for every beginning in that life but in the quite specific sense that my own life has always been a preparation for this beginning , nothing but a preparation for this beginning , both consciously and unconsciously , with everything I have done as well as everything I have thought , everything I have felt as well as everything I have suffered . |
| 3 | It is very sad to report that the entire actuarial staff of the Society was in bed before midnight and that everyone appeared with rosy complexion and clear eyes the following morning … |
| 4 | Accordingly , Sir David has requested that I convey to young Reginald the facts of life . ’ |
| 5 | In addition , it will be eligible for up to £3.66 million under the urban crime fund initiative that I announced on 26 November . |
| 6 | I knew that I possessed a sidereal compass and that I belonged to another world . |
| 7 | ‘ Well then , I 'll take it , ’ he said , ‘ because it 's all I have to prove that I come of good family . |
| 8 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 9 | ( The only failures at innovation that I saw in high-tech firms occurred when the manager thought he or she already had so much power that coalition building was unnecessary . ) |
| 10 | Erm , is that okay for that I just have something that I read in New Scientist does everybody take it ? |
| 11 | I also said that erm my I expressed that the fears that I expressed at this meeting last time about er the fact that Paul and I now supervise civilian staff , er which I 've never been sat down and told what the civilians term of contract are and what I can or can not say or whatever , so erm I feel it will be quite valuable , and brought it for me to see if anybody think it 's worthwhile pursuing . |
| 12 | Quite often , the first clue that I get to old age anxiety is when a mature dog is referred to me with , what appears to be , an ‘ out of character ’ separation anxiety . |
| 13 | I mean I can understand why they do and I like the stuff myself , but I do n't share the belief that I get from all sides that impressionism is what art should be like normally . |
| 14 | Right I 'll be for the rest of the tutorial really , erm find yourselves something to do , I just really want to follow up er the little amount of time that I spent with second years er looking at their action plans . |
| 15 | He suggested that I write about poor women , and the only way in which I could honestly do that was to go and live among them , and I knew that you and Uncle Orrin would never agree to that . |
| 16 | He knows the representation that I made with other colleagues only a fortnight ago . |
| 17 | God did many things in my life and in the lives of friends that I made in different places . |
| 18 | I believe that I speak for many others , both in my party and outside it , who want to see a successful conclusion at Maastricht and who want political and economic union in Europe to go forward . |
| 19 | I am sure that I speak for all district society presidents when I say that this is just not true . |
| 20 | One of the reasons I managed to improve so quickly was that I practised in flat water with a steady wind . |
| 21 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 22 | ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’ |
| 23 | It was in this cave that I came across another example of Yorkshire wit : revealed in the light of a torch was a daubed inscription on the wall of the cave , ‘ J. CAESAR B.C. 44 ’ . |
| 24 | I have fished all over Scotland but the first place that I came across this system , which is used to distribute available fishing fairly amongst guests , was at Scourie , and it works very well indeed . |
| 25 | Thus it was with pleasure that I came across this series of ‘ cartoon stories for adults of any age ’ , created by French scientist Jean-Pierre Petit . |
| 26 | I was having some of my aquatint plates of the Lake District steel-faced and when , in conversation with Mr. McQueen , he discovered that I came from this area , he recalled that in the past his forebears had printed for another artist from the Lakes . |
| 27 | But certainly that man that I went to that time he was very very nice and |
| 28 | The result is so infantile , feeble and unfunny that I left after 50 minutes — and you should see some of the rubbish I 've endured to the end . |
| 29 | I joined a flower arranging society thinking ‘ Well I quite like flowers and it 's a good way to meet people ’ , but I found it so boring that I left after three months . |
| 30 | All night ticket collectors came with torches , and they were followed by police who demanded that I put on proper trousers . |