Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] that [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had warned my clients that our joining together was imminent , ’ says Claire . |
| 2 | My boasts that our school was an open school run on democratic lines with no special privileges took no account of the reality that my car was always parked closest to the door and that no one else dared use that space ! |
| 3 | Sometimes I can tell from my clothes that my weight has changed , either up or down , but it does n't fill me with panic or even very much interest . |
| 4 | I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities . |
| 5 | I understand from some of my students that their OT banks were also a useful source of questions for playing ‘ Strip accountancy ’ . |
| 6 | She is the formal head of the Executive and it is , nominally , in her courts that her justice is administered . |
| 7 | They get it into their heads that their fund-raising dinner for Hypothermic Pensioners In High Rise Blocks In Portsmouth will fall apart at the seams if Dillie Keane is n't there . |
| 8 | I have to say to the IRA and its supporters that their actions only strengthen the determination of all democrats in Britain and Ireland to reject them . |
| 9 | And because all this money was not needed for war , it was available , and extensively used , to show its subjects that their monarchy lived in style and elegance . |
| 10 | It is through her writings that her influence has been greatest . |
| 11 | The Evangelical movement , despite its minority status , cast its influence far more widely than the actual numbers of its adherents might suggest ; it is of especial interest to students of child rearing attitudes , in that its followers were so prolific in their writings that their beliefs ( or watered-down versions of their beliefs ) dominated both the advisory literature available to parents and the children 's own reading matter for upwards of two centuries . |
| 12 | Enya 's grandparents are buried there , and she often talked to Roma about her feelings that her grandparents watched over her and guided her still . |
| 13 | Against that background , does the Prime Minister still dare to say to those people and their families that their prolonged misery is a price well worth paying ? |
| 14 | Many girls spoke to me of their feelings that their mother 's own self-image had a strong effect on them . |
| 15 | So deep was the contrast between Gunnell and her rivals that her victory seemed a more significant moment than even Linford Christie 's unblinking run to 100m gold . |
| 16 | So far removed was it , both in time and in temper , from the realities of a large city parish and the growing bewilderment and tribulation that the first two decades of the new century had visited upon its inhabitants that his birthplace and its memories became as insubstantial as the tales of Cuchullain and the Red Branch Knights that he had read about in school . |
| 17 | There was nothing to cause an echo in the car , already full of engine and wind noise , so it was probably only in their minds that her voice seemed to fade in throbbing waves , as across a vast canyon . |
| 18 | I remember , when I was writing the biography of George Sand , I read in all her biographies that her grandmother had married a certain Comte de Horne , an illegitimate son of Louis XV ; that the marriage had not been consummated and that the Comte de Horne had been killed in a duel . |
| 19 | Fiona has told her bosses that her relationship with Davies only blossomed after the super-vision of him ended . |
| 20 | As she looked up at him she saw such tenderness , such deep love in his eyes that her own filled with tears . |
| 21 | And there was such a look of stark relief in his eyes that his beloved cousin was safe , after all , that , just for a moment , to hide her own pain , Ronni had to drop her gaze away . |
| 22 | Gabriel looked up into the two faces : there was Garvey , curl-haired , jolly , with a shining bald tonsure and round , red cheeks , bright blue eyes and long , dark lashes ; and there was Lucie , his skin stretched so tight over his bones that its yellowness might have been the skull shining through ; deep-hollowed eyes and troughs under his cheek-bones like two gouges of the Mason 's chisel ; and those flashing , foreign eyes . |
| 23 | He felt sure in his bones that their man would try something tonight . |
| 24 | Although Harold Wilson did not equate with Bevan in personal terms — in colour or in rhetoric — he too can feel pleased that the condemnation that in many quarters was directed at him demonstrated the genuine respect for his qualities that his adversaries feared . |
| 25 | Although he spent a comparatively few number of years as a painter , it is for his paintings that his name is known worldwide . |
| 26 | One of today 's most distinguished ( though not yet knighted ) evolutionary theorists so seldom cleans his glasses that his vision is probably a misty blur anyway , but he seems to get along pretty well and , by his own account , he used to play a mean game of monocular squash . |
| 27 | It was in his interests that his father should live at least until the seven years were up . ’ |
| 28 | The composer Satie confessed to his friends that his music was probably inspired by a study of the friezes on ancient Greek vases . |
| 29 | Though Broome has created a niche of his own , disposable incomes remain tight and his claims that his hotel will have 100pc occupancy from day one are questionable . |
| 30 | On a visit to the United States on May 19-21 Kohl , accompanied by Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher , assured his hosts that his government did " not want to see the long-standing Atlantic alliance in any way weakened , still less replaced by a European structure " . |