Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tallis was prompted by this insult into an action that she knew she would regret . |
| 2 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 3 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 4 | I did n't want John thinking that I said he would get her one . |
| 5 | This is because this was the dead stock that we sent him . |
| 6 | So I make no apologies for beginning this book in the way that a conjurer might , by giving you an apparently free choice from the pack while in fact forcing on you the particular card that I want you to take . |
| 7 | An Amex gold card that I suspect he ca n't use . |
| 8 | He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him . |
| 9 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 10 | ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 11 | I would n't mind betting that Bill 's lists that you gave him actually contained all these things and only then can we actually put them down in order . |
| 12 | After James II 's death , and during the reign of Anne , Jacobites usually claimed that James Francis Stuart was the rightful heir to the throne , who should succeed his sister : it was not until after the Hanoverian succession that we find him being hailed as James III . |
| 13 | His reply was so matter-of-fact , so lacking in emotion that she found it hard to believe . |
| 14 | Er , would be ready for this Wednesday , but I said it 'll probably be Saturday that we pick it up . |
| 15 | Ruth did not have to finish what she had begun to say ; she saw from the look in their eyes that they understood her . |
| 16 | Shiona could see from his eyes that he meant it . |
| 17 | According to one report , he told a group of journalists that he believed he ought to have been given the interim presidency . |
| 18 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
| 19 | It was a bitter irony that he condemned her for loving a man who was out of reach . |
| 20 | Er racking damage , Carrie 's who in bay one and two , came to me this morning and said the the racking that he checks it every morning when he comes at six or wh Six seven , whenever he starts . |
| 21 | The staff talked only banalities at her , until she could have screamed with irritation , and try as she might to ignore it , there was no doubt in her mind that they disliked her , these crisp women in their crisp uniforms . |
| 22 | ‘ It boggles my mind that everyone thinks they can pull the wool over the eyes of a company that 's had 30 years experience in dicking rock bands . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't you see — ca n't you remember how it was ? ’ he asked , when everything was so indelibly imprinted on her mind that she knew she would never forget a moment of it . |
| 24 | ‘ I wanted him to chase me , not literally , though I would have been madly impressed if he 'd charged up Piccadilly on a white stallion , but I just wanted some firmer confirmation that he loved me . |
| 25 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 26 | Isabel lay very still , her muscles so rigid with tension that she doubted she could have moved anyway . |
| 27 | I shot a scene on the top of the Old Bailey that everybody thought I could never do . |
| 28 | The swimsuit that you bought me . |
| 29 | It is precisely because costs are passed on to third parties that we let them occur . |
| 30 | And I 'll go through some strengths that we feel they have and the monopoly obviously is one of the er major strengths . |