Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [noun] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a brief statement Edwards said : ‘ I have told my board colleagues that I will not be rushed and will come to a decision towards the end of the season . ’ |
| 2 | In a brief statement Edwards said : ‘ I have told my board colleagues that I will not be rushed and will come to a decision towards the end of the season . ’ |
| 3 | There was a little shop in my home town that I had liked very much , selling old bits and pieces , books and engravings ; all that was for sale was in a jumble , and the windows had not been cleaned in years . |
| 4 | I could tell my grandparents things that I would n't tell my , my father or my mother . |
| 5 | What I did know was that I did n't want to grow up , and my diary records that I confessed as much — when pressed to my housemistress . |
| 6 | Resenting my making decisions that she felt she ought to make . |
| 7 | It was later , in my wartime hospital that I first realised that the Second Commandment had not been given to Moses on Mount Sinai but to an Irish priest upon the Mountains of Mourne . |
| 8 | ‘ I was just saying to my friend Chatterton that it 's really very dangerous to travel on tubes these days . |
| 9 | I rudely announced to my wife Claudia that I simply had to have a baby by the time I was 35 . |
| 10 | Lest anybody should have got the idea from my August column that I was in some way in favour of four-year funding of students of architecture , let me set the record straight . |
| 11 | You work so hard as my farm manager that I want you to have a larger share of the profits . |
| 12 | It is on this that I lie and visualize the various ‘ assaults ’ upon my cancer cells that I have already described . |
| 13 | I said to the NFU and in my press statement that I reserved the right to take emergency action if , for instance , people in this country started to use coloured lenses for chickens , which would be outrageous — I would stop it before it started . |
| 14 | Yeah I know , a terrible oversight there , I 've got erm you know them chicken nuggets that I get , have you seen them ? |
| 15 | He worked there for nearly 40 years and it was in their Stockholm laboratories that he immediately took up Paneth and Peters ' idea . |
| 16 | When households initially decide the flow of their labour services that they are willing to supply at different values for the real wage rate they are simultaneously deciding the quantities of goods which they demand in exchange for those services . |
| 17 | TWO ponies became so amorous in their horse box that they sent it plunging off a road and down a bank near Islip , Oxon , yesterday . |
| 18 | The British and US governments have told their aid agencies that they see aid projects as a source of export orders . |
| 19 | I think its bristol shitty that he 's with now . |
| 20 | In order to be accepted as a Safe-Buy approved supplier , firms must prove through their accounting system that they are financially sound ; they must prove they hold proper current insurances ; they must supply a list of recent customers , at lest 12 of whom are contacted by the Safe-Buy team and asked about their satisfaction with their recent home improvement ; finally , further checks are made on the company through the relevant consumer protection associations to ensure that the applicants reputation is untarnished . |
| 21 | When neighbours tried to visit , she had Jennifer send them away , and when they said Mr Drew might be coming down to call on her , she became very agitated because the last thing she wanted was a turncoat parson at her deathbed , and she was so afraid that he might confiscate her silver Madonna that she had Jennifer take it from her neck and put round her own . |
| 22 | One major American corporation became so enthralled by the spell of its spreadsheet model that it lost touch with reality and some $80M disappeared ! |
| 23 | Si in New York , the subsidiary company must be so dominated by its parent corporation that it acts as a ‘ mere department ’ of the parent . |
| 24 | Er you , you , you 'll find that children will , grandchildren will tell their grandparents thing that they wo n't tell their own parents . |
| 25 | They form a national network and it is from their conference statement that I took the above quotations . |
| 26 | We would have hoped that the county and district councils would have so organized their selection processes that they could have come to this examination in public fully prepared to argue the merits of geographical location . |
| 27 | NCR Ltd is warning its UK workforce that it will have to make about 8% of them redundant , leading to loss of 150 to 160 jobs in nearly all areas of the company . |
| 28 | In case you 're not fluent in Japanese , Katharine Over is telling her friend Lucy that she 's about to join the Prime Minister on a diplomatic mission . |
| 29 | Remember their contact demands that they provide you with an office desk and telephone facility for three weeks |
| 30 | Since 1987 , people declaring on their visa applications that they were HIV-positive could be debarred entry to the USA ( under legislation to control serious and infectious diseases , dating originally from 1951 ) . |