Example sentences of "[noun prp] [that] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were some stubborn cases in his clinical work , however , which suggested to Freud that something else was at work apart from sexual instincts and ego instincts . |
| 2 | It was only after I had mentioned Miss Kenton that I suddenly realized how entirely inappropriate it would be for me to continue . |
| 3 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the principal attraction of grant-maintained schools is not the additional funding that they receive but the greater independence from the LEAs that they then enjoy ? |
| 4 | Hugo told Valerie that nothing else of import had been said . |
| 5 | I mentioned to Ewen that I still had some ( I told him 10 , but it appears to be only 8 ) copies left of GGE , and yesterday I approached Bargain Books on Princes Street , where I see they 're selling it for £6 , in the hope that I might add my copies to their stock and get a cheque for you . |
| 6 | It surprised Frankie that she rarely managed to sing all the words in the correct order . |
| 7 | Matthew Blake certainly seemed to see a Charity Marlowe that nobody else had ever seen . |
| 8 | Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs . |
| 9 | This works well once you get used to the mouse routine , and is considered so simple by Sierra that they no longer include any documentation in this respect ! |
| 10 | Mrs Southey had asked Sarah to visit so they could ‘ talk over the American affair ’ , and it may by then have seemed inevitable to Sarah that she too would be carried on the Pantisocratic tide . |
| 11 | At that time erm , I was a commercial traveller and Harlow was part of my district and they reluctantly accepted the fact that because I was a commercial traveller working in Harlow that I actually did work in Harlow which was stretching a point , but I really think that the Development Corporation 's officials were getting a little tired of my being able to talk their own language and to write letters in the same vein as they could write , they were n't used to this , and , at any rate , as I said earlier we got here . |
| 12 | It is to Foucault and to Jameson that we now turn . |
| 13 | I had to convince Mrs Blackler that I genuinely was Elsie 's brother . |
| 14 | KENNY DALGLISH has come to see a side of Alan Shearer that he never knew existed when he shelled out £3.3 million on the England striker . |
| 15 | The fabled golden age of England that he apparently yearns for is merely his lost youth in disguise . |
| 16 | In a more relaxed moment — and there were not many of these Ken told Fenella that he always felt ‘ obliged to go much more out on a limb than most people . ’ |
| 17 | It is in the myth of Odysseus that they most poignantly figure out the tragic paralysis of the dialectic , and , by extension , the quandary of cultural critique : to steer past the temptations of the Sirens whose fatal song can not be resisted , Odysseus stuffs his men 's ears with wax so that they will not be distracted from their rowing , and binds himself to the mast with orders that he must not be released . |
| 18 | COLON Put a colon ( : ) between two complete clauses to make them one larger sentence : The difference between Pip and the other characters appears again when we see how people deal with this : Pip continues to show Estella that he still wants her , never giving up . |
| 19 | Delving deep into its archives it has come up with some winners , not least a luscious 1947 performance of Bax 's The Garden of Fand that I once possessed and enjoyed in its original , 78 rpm form . |
| 20 | Thousands of foreigners from all parts of the world were so concerned about events in Spain that they actually went there to fight in the war , many of them never to return . |
| 21 | Davies was sacked for falsely telling editor Richard Stott that he never went to Ohio in 1985 . |
| 22 | It did n't make any difference when Mum and Dad tried to explain to Natalie that she just was n't old enough for Brownies . |
| 23 | This has nothing directly to do with the overt sex drives of American footballers , or the claim of the early Hollywood starlet Clara Bow that she once ‘ entertained ’ the whole of the University of Southern California football team in rapid succession . |
| 24 | What was lacking was a clear response from Mr Hussein that he genuinely wanted peace . |
| 25 | You need far more capital to get you going in a place like Cambridge that you perhaps do in Peterborough where some houses can still be bought for around thirty thousand and that needs to be borne in mind . |
| 26 | Mr that you very much indeed for joining us on the programme this morning . |
| 27 | THE Prime Minister yesterday warned in the Commons that there still remained ‘ great difficulty ’ in getting a Bosnia peace settlement . |
| 28 | What amazed me was the way Ray did such a spectacular somersault just to convince little Louis that he really had scored victory . |
| 29 | Despite Alcuin 's plea to Aethelheard that he not be stripped of his pallium during his lifetime , it was only as bishop that Hygeberht attended the council of Chelsea in 801 ( CS 302 : S 158 ) and as abbot , that of Clofesho in 803 . |
| 30 | I discovered when I later spoke with Geoffrey that he too had been persuaded to stand by Humphrey Atkins . |