Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [verb] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How the poor fellow finally got his report together I do not know but I doubt that even he did n't realise that he was dealing with a supernatural force that did what it liked when it liked . |
| 2 | In the Miss LA contest that followed which she lost Michelle met a commercial agent and began auditioning for adverts , which again she hated , but again swallowed her pride . |
| 3 | I joining the company something like that and if they did when you do join a department that does it you have a great sense of belonging , because some of the things you 'll do for the training will be allocated to other members round a team , yeah , all this sort of stuff and it becomes very easy , takes a monkey off your back as it were , you do n't have to worry . |
| 4 | I shall not attempt to repeat what I said then , for repetition makes bores of us all in the House ; I am glad , however , that the scepticism that greeted what I had to say about the benefits of a single European currency has since been replaced by understanding and support in several quarters . |
| 5 | The answer is that even if everyone playing cards always had a certain sort of feeling when they trumped an opponent 's card and had another , different , feeling when they revoked , it would still be the case that to understand what it is to trump , and to revoke , we would have to look at the game itself , that is , at the use of trump-cards in the game . |
| 6 | This is a budget that promises what it will deliver . |
| 7 | Interestingly , it was not , as is usual , the noise that told us we were approaching a large nesting cliff , but an almost overpowering smell of guano . |
| 8 | Clary would smile , nod obligingly , with a look that knew something they did n't , one which delved deep down through two small black holes into a mind of knowledge , hidden inside , never daring to seep out . |
| 9 | So can somebody give me a sentence that explains what we talked about the sun is n't staying still it 's , all right Kieran . |
| 10 | Erm shit that reminds me I 've got to write a letter . |
| 11 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 12 | But from the soft laugh that followed her she had the ominous feeling that he was no more convinced by her protests than she was herself . |
| 13 | Yes , I hope he is , she 's apparently , she 's erm a designer and the girl that makes it she designs the latest beautiful hats and I thought to myself if they 're those tall , biggest , you know those tall sort of round sort of like bowler hats , |
| 14 | But — and it 's this sort of complication that makes him I think such a remarkable man — although that did happen then , for the next ten , twelve years , he was entirely preoccupied , almost entirely preoccupied with something else , and this something else erm originates from the other revolution that he underwent at this time , a revolution that occurred after a visit to an international mathematical congress in Paris , where he met the Italian mathematician Peano . |
| 15 | Liberman found in Penn what he considered the essence of an original photographer , ‘ a mind , and an eye that knew what it wanted to see ’ . |
| 16 | Liberman found in Penn what he considered the essence of an original photographer , ‘ a mind , and an eye that knows what it wanted to see ’ . |
| 17 | Perhaps a closer analogy would be with a telescope that misrepresented what we were looking at . |
| 18 | ‘ The hardest part of being a fat person is that it 's not just your imagination that tells you you do n't count . |
| 19 | There was a power in him , a suppressed vigour that made everything he did one hundred per cent positive . |
| 20 | He smiled again , a sad , lonely smile that told her he was still not hers . |
| 21 | I says no I ca n't , he says it 's not very far , I said it 's not the distance that bothers me it 's the fact that you want us to sit there till eleven o'clock at night and not get paid for it , he says yeah but if you want to say something , I says I 'd say something if I thought we 'd be backed on it , but we 're not , oh I 'm not going anywhere to be if I 'm not being paid |
| 22 | And we 're going to find the person that did it you know cos last it was no , no smoking in the toilets and then there 's no smoking dope in the toilets |
| 23 | And Ma'am that shows you I think er the chairman has it open in front of you . |
| 24 | His expression hardened , became a mask that hid whatever he was thinking . |
| 25 | But how will Lachlan handle a wife that knows what he 's at , and has a great clan of powerful relations at her call if she 's ill done by , then ? ’ |
| 26 | The fact that sceptics are not sceptical about scepticism is further evidence that to doubt anything we must believe something . |
| 27 | He ran up the street and through the town as far as the main road , where he saw a sign that told him it was just seventy miles from there to London . |
| 28 | ‘ It was their manner that told me they had to be taken seriously . |
| 29 | A prairie dog that knows what it 's up against may have a better chance of getting away safely . |
| 30 | Beneath the fabric of his borrowed shirt , her fingers trapped and twisted his skin in a burning pinch that told him she intended to deal with him later . |