Example sentences of "[noun] that [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a combination of fire and ice was in that one glance that unconsciously she faltered . |
| 2 | None of this showed on her face , but a certain rigidity of jaw would have betrayed to the careful watcher that perhaps she was n't quite as calm and in control as she wished to appear . |
| 3 | He saw the irony that here he was in a church , the house of God and gate to heaven , thinking about murder . |
| 4 | The Prime Minister said in reply to my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition that neither he nor the Chancellor had made the remark about unemployment being a price well worth paying . |
| 5 | Or had she — again she experienced that persistent feeling niggling at the back of her mind that somewhere she 'd seen him before . |
| 6 | The thought crossed her mind that perhaps they were burying her , and she silently shouted at herself not to think that , even though it was the most natural supposition she could make . |
| 7 | It suddenly crossed my mind that perhaps he thought I had come to see him on a professional level , that I was in need of spiritual help or whatever . |
| 8 | After she died , the renegade thought came into his mind that perhaps it was a surfeit of prayer in those chill damp churches that had killed her . |
| 9 | It crossed her mind that perhaps she should , despite her employer 's ‘ … if you value your job , you wo n't breathe a word to him that it 's all a put-up affair ’ , explain some of it to Travis . |
| 10 | Yes there are certain considerations that obviously we take er we take into effect . |
| 11 | For many upper-class men , prostitution appeared both necessary and inevitable ; and their objections to raising the age of consent often arose from the fear that either they or their sons might be threatened by new legislation . |
| 12 | He had farmed the child out , of course , but he had n't been able to quell the fear that somehow she might intrude upon his future . |
| 13 | Do you feel ambitious enough to attain goals that previously you might have thought were out of your personal reach ? |
| 14 | ‘ Peace be to Lieutenant Denholm but he 's a civilian electronics specialist who 's come out to fix some abstruse electronic fault that only he can fix . |
| 15 | The Lowenstrasse area with the neighbouring Bahnhofpassage has become so popular with shoppers that now they call it " Shopville " . |
| 16 | Erm I I was suggesting to Clare and David that wherever we do know people who do n't live in this region we could get those people to , at my expense , send us a copy of their local Thompson Directory , which is an excellent resource for getting in touch with local businesses and other organizations . |
| 17 | And it is a characteristic of Richard Branson that wherever he is , he regards it as a party , and has usually done his best to make it such by the addition of as many people as possible . |
| 18 | They might be sensations that only she felt , but even so … |
| 19 | The first indication that tomorrow she could take the state . |
| 20 | Yet they work somehow , because her is a man who had the courage to state it as it is , with such conviction and such power and optimism that somehow you get caught up in his enthusiasm and believe with him , if only for those three chords . |
| 21 | Erm when you read it you come across strange words you know words that maybe you know you 've heard them but you would n't think of trying to write them . |
| 22 | Can I also say really I agree with Martin when he said erm , and has been saying for at least six months that surely we have more important things to , to talk about than , than this and I 'm sorry for Martin that he had to erm , give in really and put this I was the movement of the amendment in January ninety two erm , which confirmed that the rights of tenants and old occupiers of land in county council ownership to er allow or stop fox hunting over land in their care . |
| 23 | Other critics praised Street Scene : George Blaisdell for instance liked the way in which ‘ simple persons have come into their own ’ and Photoplay told its readers that here they would find the ‘ humour , the pathos and the gripping drama ’ which they saw again and again in their own lives and in their own newspapers , but then it went on to ask : ‘ Will it be box-office ? ’ |
| 24 | Her feelings on that day had been so overpowering , had filled her with such sharp pleasure that always she hoped that their ghosts must still be lingering among the leaves . |
| 25 | Then the judge must do his best for the community as a whole , frankly and honestly , not pretending to " discover " some law beneath the surface of statutes or precedents that only he can see . |
| 26 | A blind person was accepted for a post on the condition that initially he would work with blind clients . |
| 27 | ‘ Still the short-arsed little git that ever you were , ’ Rex commented . |
| 28 | We are continually being told by British Rail that how it spends its money depends on priorities . |
| 29 | The problem is that the movie is so desperate to make itself into a positive romance , ideal mutual learning process and overall success story that finally it begins to resemble one of those correspondence-school ads on the back of US comics : get some knowledge , triple your income , rise rapidly in your chosen field . |
| 30 | Having said that , I am of course aware with more humility that ultimately we depend on the professional judgement , so generously given , of Mrs McNaughtan . |