Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relatives always made disparaging remarks about me ‘ breaking the chain' of five boys , but consoled my parents that they at least had a girl to look after them in their old age . |
| 2 | Disciplines can choose to doubt matters that we in our everyday lives take for granted . |
| 3 | This would be in tune with the general desire of the council officials that we as researchers should not set about asking direct questions about incomer and Shetlander relations . |
| 4 | We have known for a number of years that we with every other council in the land , are facing the government that does not believe in local government . |
| 5 | The magazine served to reinforce my own feelings that we in the UK must fight to preserve lesbian and gay rights which were so hard won and which Mrs Thatcher seems determined to destroy . |
| 6 | Employment is a two-way trade and it is as well to remember that the conditions that we in the House think can be imposed on employers may backfire on the very people whom they are supposed to help . |
| 7 | And in the years after the end of the 1939–45 war there was such a spate of generals ' diaries that it at times seemed difficult to understand how these men had time for the job in hand , so busy were they with their diaries . |
| 8 | I am trying , within the context of the debate , to identify how we can move forward from the 1990s to the 21st century , the problems that we as a nation will have to face , our relationship with Europe and how we can learn from the nations that we have said are the best , such as Germany , and develop a sound strategic regional policy . |
| 9 | We may well be extending the number of er shut downs that we over the weekend so that we can carry out more extensive maintenance on the electrical systems around the organization . |
| 10 | Beatty consequently had a momentous task : to entice the Germans north toward Jellicoe , then hurrying south , without himself being overwhelmed by the superior enemy forces that he at present faced . |
| 11 | It is as if the idea of the moment can be compressed like those flowers that we as children used to press between the pages of a book ; that they can be set like a jewel in the mind or as a picture in the mind 's gallery . |
| 12 | Advocates of linguistically motivated courses like our own , became very familiar with the objection , overt or implied , that they spoke from ignorance of courses that they by implication criticised , and inevitably they sometimes did . |
| 13 | He may have asked for Norman help against his enemies in 1009 , and a continental source records that he at some point appealed to the French monarch Robert the Pious for assistance , conceivably in the hope that he could exert pressure on the Normans . |