Example sentences of "[noun prp] and that [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Frank claimed that he had not known that Gobie was running a prostitution service from Frank 's apartment on Capitol Hill and that he had dismissed him upon learning of it .
2 It is generally agreed that maize was domesticated in Mexico and that its ancestor was a grass called teosinte , which grows in the hills to the south-west of Mexico City .
3 There were additional concerns in Europe , given that the SDI programme was designed to ensure immunity for the United States and that it might prejudice the US commitment to European security in the event of nuclear war .
4 Although Elizabeth felt reluctant , she was thankful to settle down in bed , knowing that her mother would see to Edward and that her sister would gladly take on her share of the farm-work .
5 ‘ I 've told Myra you 've mistaken me for Dana and that you 're making me go with you to look for Garry , but she 's inclined to discount that — she 's building a romance round us . ’
6 Fabia drove through Belgium and into Germany wishing with all she had that it were Saturday and that her interview with the highly esteemed author were over .
7 They , they asked that it be done on a Friday and a Saturday and that they appeared on Thursday with it , erm , I 'm getting on with it .
8 It took him three or four minutes to realise that this was Saturday and that there was no one there .
9 This book is also different to ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ because there are no racist scenes , only prejudice towards Imamu from both the Police and in some cases the Aimsleys , when their daughter goes missing and they think that because he is a street boy who comes from Harlem , a lower class area than Brooklyn and that he has just been acquitted on a murder rap , he 's got something to do with Perk 's disappearance .
10 This afternoon — I arrived in Salisbury at around three thirty — when I entered my address in her register as ‘ Darlington Hall ’ , I could see her look at me with some trepidation , assuming no doubt that I was some gentleman used to such places as the Ritz or the Dorchester and that I would storm out of her guest house on being shown my room .
11 Thierry Millerand , Sotheby 's head of French furniture , remarks on the extreme rarity of the Louis XVI ormolu-mounted and painted satinwood and mahogany commode ( est. $1.2–1.6 million ) that is the top lot of the Ortiz-Patiño offering of French furniture : ‘ The commode is one of the very few surviving examples of French eighteenth-century painted and veneered furniture ’ and adds , ‘ We are certain that it was executed by Joseph Baumhauer and that it belonged to a great collector , Nicolas Beaujon , in the eighteenth century ’ .
12 Mr MacArthur said : ‘ The pilot said he had been told the weather was bad on Mull and that he might fly on to Tiree .
13 It was arranged that Bill would do the initial flight in early February and that he would give Dick Hansen his ground schooling for the aircraft .
14 Fleischmann and Pons knew that they had no hopes of completing their work by May and that they could lose the race if Jones went public so soon .
15 It is expected that the members of the team of consultants will be announced in May and that they will be given six months to complete the report , which will be published towards the end of the year .
16 I AM writing in response to Mr. Gage 's letter in September RW&P in which he says that there is not a proper step between the club rugby and international rugby in England and that there will be too many league matches for top players .
17 ‘ I have a document from the orphanage which says I am responsible for Natasha while she is in England and that she will return to Sarajevo for the school term , or when the war ends .
18 Ferdinand , as he was originally named , was of the house of Saxe-Coburg and Napoleon III may well have felt that this candidacy would be pleasing to England and that it would at a personal level strengthen his ties with the English Royal House .
19 Michael Bates , standing in Langbaurgh , said his other son had the same operation on the NHS and that there was little difference between the two .
20 One afternoon , when Aunt Lilian was lying down , I told Aunt Kit that Richard was on the ‘ other side ’ over Suez and that I had decided to leave him .
21 It was only then that George Shultz , Reagan 's secretary of state , learned the president had actually signed an order authorising the arms shipments on 17 January and that he had not been consulted or told .
22 At this stage we were selling about three thousand tons of polyester film a year and my two closest lieutenants , my planning and marketing colleagues , persuaded me we should double the size of the plant at Dumfries in Scotland and that we should build another plant in Europe .
23 Hersh 's book attracted libel suits in the UK over its claims that the UK newspaper proprietor Robert Maxwell had close links with the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and that he , together with a member of his Daily Mirror newspaper staff , had helped Mossad to track down Mordechai Vanunu , a nuclear technician who leaked details of Israel 's nuclear programme and had been imprisoned in Israel since 1986 [ see p. 35922 ] .
24 Another suggests that Dom Pérignon spent several years in the Benedictine monastery at Alcántara in Spain and that it was he , not the monks of Santiago de Compostela , who brought the cork to Hautvillers .
25 The proposal foundered on British and American fears that the Soviet Union wanted , for its own purposes , to provoke another civil war in Spain and that it would seek to manipulate any Security Council debate to that end .
26 There is no obvious reason to expect sentiment in Denmark to be affected by Britain 's problems but the impression could gain ground that the UK will be able to work out an accommodation with the EC without Maastricht and that there is therefore an alternative for Denmark .
27 Arnulf wrote a letter to the English bishops shortly before their meeting , telling them that the French king , the French bishops , and Henry himself were all agreed to support Alexander and that they were only postponing their announcement until the English bishops could vote to join them .
28 He managed to detain her long enough for them to tether the horses , because there would be no sense in coming out of the Workshops ( with , or without the prisoner ) and finding that the horses had turned their heads for Tara and that they had to walk the rest of the way to the Fire Court .
29 Surely all political parties would do well to agree that there is to be no political vacuum in Northern Ireland and that we are determined to fight for peace as the future of Northern Ireland .
30 I think he came to tell me that we should go to Ireland and that we would be OK . ’
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