Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know , as you get them half baskets that fit on a wall |
| 2 | John Bunyan wrote of the reading of his youth : " Give me a ballad , a news-book , George on horseback , or Bevis of Southampton ; give me some book that teaches curious arts , that tells of old fables ; but for the holy Scriptures I cared not . " |
| 3 | I was sure he knew I could barely contain myself or restrain my trembling fingers that longed to run their tips along the insides of those meaty thighs that were spreadeagled enticingly over the edge of his seat . |
| 4 | But er , also i I 'm currently compl er getting together the records of my old company that go back to eighteen seventy-nine , and I 've been instrumental in getting one or two of the governing bodies to get their records in . |
| 5 | I can give my hon. Friend that guarantee . |
| 6 | I agree with my hon. Friend that raising standards requires having a good quality teaching force , properly rewarded and encouraged . |
| 7 | I give my hon. Friend that pledge with a great deal of enthusiasm . |
| 8 | It 's only my fevered imagination that keeps me warm . |
| 9 | It was my wee , my wee granddaughter that got through to him . |
| 10 | ‘ And I think it is my fine menu that lures you back . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It was my heavy bones that did for me , as you well know ! ’ |
| 12 | Erm the er desire that I twelve conveys to encourage district councils to make special provision in their you know to emphasize high density employment in their city centres is understood , no quarrel with that , but if you ca n't , if you feel unable er at county level to be absolutely explicit , that a district would be free if it so chose , it might not choose to do so , if it so chose to make I twelve decisions that did n't come out of its I five , er they would n't have to come out of its I five allocations , unless you can be clear that they 're free to do that , erm it suggests to me sir that may be it 's I twelve that 's that 's getting in the way , erm and w that might well be something we can do without . |
| 13 | Only fifty yards further upstream I find a smooth glide along my own bank that looks as though it should hold a few chub . |
| 14 | Well probably in your early days you 'll probably do a mix , but if y the quicker you can get to only work , and even to the extent I mean I went out and bought my own book that had personal recommendations on the front and I would actually show that and say look John the only way I actually work , while I get everything ready you might like to look through because it 's the only way I work , I purely work on a personal recommendation basis and that enables me to get quality clients like yourself erm and I can devote time to you rather than have to go out looking for people to tell my story |
| 15 | But President Reagan could still veto my science-education bill that appears too expensive for his taste and priorities . |
| 16 | Whatever the reason , it 's certainly all my female friends that stand gazing into the black puddles with me . |
| 17 | Inevitably there was a lot of sycophantic non sense around her too.Thus when she made a blood donation , the director of the clinic declared that the room would remain a shrine for her and everyone who now had a transfusion would insist that it was her divine blood that flowed and miraculously and potently into his veins . |
| 18 | She has felt sick ever since the final board interview : four middleaged middle-class men rub their hands at her qualifications , her feminine ability to spot what they want her to say and to say it , her freaky clothes that suggest her safe token Marxism and her fashionably feminist views . |
| 19 | Novell Inc has intensified its dispute with Microsoft Corp over use of its requester technology in Windows for Workgroups and has invoked a clause in its technology-swapping agreement that bars Microsoft from shipping NetWare code in future Windows products , PC Week reports . |
| 20 | Miss Philimore had behaved pleasantly enough , but there had been a calculating set to her narrow mouth that made such a gesture seem unlikely in the extreme . |
| 21 | its cheated hearts that swell as Some Kiltie redneck in his |
| 22 | This [ contemporary ] condition … greatly puzzles the now small body of surviving constitutionalists old enough to remember the sentiment of the mid-Victorian era , with its prevalent belief that to imitate the forms , or at any rate to adopt the spirit of the English constitution , was the best method whereby to confer upon the people of any civilised country the combined blessings of order and of progress . |
| 23 | He spoke with a Cockney accent and dropped aitches , oddly out of place on this paradise with its lilting voices that matched the gently waving palms . |
| 24 | Then there arrived a rainbow of stronger colours and she could have wept for its strident spectrum that came to disturb the pastel gavotte of suns , but it had a strength she could not resist and a hundred thousand pullulating meanings that tugged at her . |
| 25 | By the time I see her put on her high heels that make it worse though . |
| 26 | But it is their cumulative weight that has brought about an unprecedented , and critical , situation . |
| 27 | It is not their high income that makes them capitalists , but the fact that they own the means of production ( i.e. inputs necessary for production factories , machines , etc . ) . |
| 28 | It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being but on the contrary ; their social being that determines their consciousness . |
| 29 | It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being , but , on the contrary , their social being that determines their consciousness . |
| 30 | He gripped the pommel , pushed his left boot into the cold stirrup iron , and heaved up into the Hussar saddle with its high spoon that offered support during long hours of riding . |