Example sentences of "[pron] that [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A local general practitioner of twelve years ' standing , concerned about the increased incidence of myelomas ( a type of bone marrow cancer ) in his area , told me that nobody in their right senses would eat cockles and mussels from Morecambe Bay . |
| 2 | Haines assured me that everything at his end would remain secret , but a few years later I was both surprised and vexed to find that he had retailed the story in his memoirs without any indication of his pledge of confidentiality . |
| 3 | ‘ Our defence experts have assured me that nothing of any real size could get through undetected . |
| 4 | This confirms many readers ' views and , since woodworkers keep tool and machinery suppliers in business , it seems to me that somebody on the supply side should justify what appears to be gross profiteering . |
| 5 | It seemed to me that somebody like Michael Crawford would be an absolute past master at giving a riveting performance by appearing to do almost nothing . |
| 6 | I have a sensation of heat as I approach the fire ; but when I approach the same fire too closely , I have a sensation of pain ; so there is nothing to convince me that something in the fire resembles heat , any more than the pain ; it is just that there must be something in it ( whatever this may turn out to be ) that produces the sensations of heat or pain . |
| 7 | The clinical instinct I was beginning to develop told me that something inside this animal was fundamentally awry . |
| 8 | It appals me that anybody in government can considerate it appropriate to use terms like mum 's army , with the connotations that that has with Captain Mainwaring and his bimbling set of idiots . |
| 9 | Well she told me that he in six months , yeah it was planned were n't it six months |
| 10 | When we finally had the showdown , he actually told me that none of them mattered . |
| 11 | That evening Mrs Puri remarked to me that none of the considerable expense of the party would have been necessary if members of her family did not insist on leaving the Punjab and pursuing business ventures Abroad . |
| 12 | ‘ Anyway , it amazes me that none of you has apparently thought of comparing the print-outs of yesterday with today 's work . |
| 13 | You 'd think there 'd be fear that the ploughman would suffer damage among the horse 's hoofs , but such was the bond between them that nothing of the kind ever happened . ’ |
| 14 | He told them that none of the servants had seen Putt since the forest ‘ accident ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Did it ever occur to you that everything in this world has had to be designed ? ’ asks Sir Terence Conran , pausing for the significance of his question to sink in . |
| 16 | I assure you that we at Amnesty do take such questions seriously and make considerable efforts to avoid insensitive statements . |
| 17 | And may I remind you that none of us were exempt from that curse . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ And , since you obviously assume otherwise , despite my constant reassurances on the subject , I 'd like to take this opportunity of assuring you that none of my liaisons — past or present — will be lurking in the cupboards . |
| 19 | Some stand quite close to him but are unhappy about this or that emphasis or point of detail , or about tendencies which they see running through his work ; others differ from him so radically on the nature and basis of theology itself that they in effect reject his approach wholesale . |
| 20 | Everything that someone like Toni does , Dannii is pulling in another direction . |
| 21 | ‘ Obviously , this was something that everybody in Washington knew about ’ , said poor Fernandez , ‘ and here I was , thinking I had a real secret . ’ |
| 22 | I think that this is something that we as Christians should be aware of and , if possible , we ought to be available to help keen ex-offenders reintegrate into society . |
| 23 | All these moves will help , but there is something that we as individuals can do — if we want to . |
| 24 | That will mean an enormous shift in the centre of gravity in Europe towards the north — something that we in Britain should heartily welcome , because on many issues , our approach , or at least , that of Labour Members , has much in common with the countries of northern Europe . |
| 25 | She totally childish and not something that somebody in the twentieth century should waste their waste , their time with , and for a brief moment I felt the moral force of Sigmund Freud as through his daughter and of course psychologically this makes sense because I 'm quite sure her superego was modelled on her father 's . |
| 26 | And that 's something that no-one in London really wants to sing about . |
| 27 | ‘ If you were Free People and you wanted to strike a shocking , symbolic blow at the family — something that everyone in the country would feel — which family would you bomb ? ’ |
| 28 | Here 's something that he by law has got to have . |
| 29 | There 's also information about the International Ecumenical Fellowship which is something that you as an individual can do to support ecumenical work . |
| 30 | Just one proviso and it is one that everyone in our industry knows … this business is no soft option . |