Example sentences of "[pron] that [indef pn] [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 | When we finally had the showdown , he actually told me that none of them mattered . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Anyway , it amazes me that none of you has apparently thought of comparing the print-outs of yesterday with today 's work . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | He told them that none of the servants had seen Putt since the forest ‘ accident ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | And may I remind you that none of us were exempt from that curse . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Everything that someone like Toni does , Dannii is pulling in another direction . |
| 18 | ‘ Obviously , this was something that everybody in Washington knew about ’ , said poor Fernandez , ‘ and here I was , thinking I had a real secret . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And that 's something that no-one in London really wants to sing about . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 22 | Just one proviso and it is one that everyone in our industry knows … this business is no soft option . |
| 23 | They had no other Dutch communities to look to ; they kept their own language for over a century and the switch of allegiance from one ruler to another was one that nobody at that time found at all difficult . |
| 24 | No , the sole reason for changing one 's mind was that the newspapers and television told one that lots of other people had done so . |
| 25 | She reached for her handbag , and with a hurried final glance at the mirror to reassure herself that none of the inner turmoil showed she locked the flat and went out . |
| 26 | If he had , she could have persuaded herself that none of it had been her fault — that he 'd physically forced her into making love . |
| 27 | Back then it was called ‘ nancy boys ’ which was what my father used to call homosexuals , and he thought that all actors were homosexuals , so I could n't tell him that everyone in the company that I first joined was homosexual — except me . |
| 28 | He was so conscious of her that everything about her was vividly present to him . |
| 29 | Joyce tried to comfort her , assuring her that none of the boys would have to go . |
| 30 | Or I will see to it that everyone in Cairo knows who is the sheikh who takes money from Copts . ’ |