Example sentences of "[noun prp] [unc] [noun] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secord and Hakim told Secord 's lawyer that they thought they were doing ‘ the Lord 's work ’ . |
| 2 | Yet somehow she shared Alison Walker 's faith that everything would be all right . |
| 3 | The negotiations with the gallery were apparently severely threatened , however , by Lord Cholmondeley 's idea that he might withdraw the Holbein from Christie 's and , indeed , from the market for a year . |
| 4 | The same fact was responsible for Dennis 's insistence that we should take to the water . |
| 5 | Gorbachev 's talk of perestroika was met by Ceauşescu 's insistence that he was ‘ perfecting ’ the functioning of socialism in Romania . |
| 6 | Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure . |
| 7 | The lavish donation of Western honours helped to reinforce Ceauşescu 's propaganda that his period in power represented a completely new epoch in Romanian history . |
| 8 | Indeed , it is at exactly this stage of Picasso 's evolution that one senses behind his art the presence of this great ‘ primitive ’ who in his naiveté had unconsciously succeeded in ignoring the forces which had influenced French painting for the past fifty years , the forces against which Picasso and his friends were most immediately reacting . |
| 9 | ‘ I have such confidence in Edgar 's love that I think I could kill him , and he would n't blame me for it . |
| 10 | She brushed aside Mrs Singh 's assertions that her son was not making progress by telling her repeatedly that it was unreasonable to expect anything more ; she used phrases like ‘ He is well below average ’ , ‘ He is slow ’ , ‘ He is in the bottom set , you must accept that . |
| 11 | The group 's press officer , Mick Houghton , thought it was Gregory 's departure that he would soon be explaining to the press when suddenly he was told Charman was out . |
| 12 | Gregory 's claim that he was hailed as consul and Augustus at Tours must be a misunderstanding , although an honorary consulship is not out of the question . |
| 13 | Never once had it crossed Jasper 's or Bert 's mind that they might be refused . |
| 14 | The other interesting news was Norsk Hydro 's announcement that it planned to buy DnC 's 9 per cent stake in Saga Petroleum . |
| 15 | I should say from what I can sense of MacArthur 's feelings that he would continue to fill his role here as long as his health permitted him to do so . |
| 16 | Sabine welcomed Marie-Christine 's suggestion that they should take their coffee up to her room , and look at some furniture catalogues . |
| 17 | Thus Witold Gombrowicz 's apparently anti-political call for ‘ an elusive man who is a play of contradictions ’ is really a fierce rebuke to the totalitarian preference for deathly form over vital chaos ; and the absurdist satire on display in Yuz Aleshkovsky 's ‘ Kangaroo ’ , whose protagonist eventually comes to believe the KGB 's charge that he sodomised a marsupial in the Moscow Zoo ‘ on a night between July 14th 1789 , and January 9th 1905 ’ ( note the dates ) , is ‘ the only way for a free mind to cope … an abuse of official language that will overpower it and thus defeat it . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I hope for Mrs Kettle 's sake that she is right . ’ |
| 19 | The passage from Lord Lindley 's judgment that I have cited has been relied on in a number of subsequent cases but , before coming to them , I should refer to an earlier case , Bainbrigge v. Browne ( 1881 ) 18 Ch.D. 188 . |
| 20 | I ca n't buy Offiah 's excuse that he needed immediate ice-pack treatment on a leg . |
| 21 | Well do you want that Littlewood 's shirt that I 've got , still says that we 're going , I get up on Sunday and go to and , no we 've got to go to with that coat , take that coat over |
| 22 | Pat 's view that there is enough work to er have another complaint examiner really means instead of exec investigators . |
| 23 | The result of all this politics — and Ramsey 's sense that he might be reading the wrong subject , because his interests were now more modern than ancient — meant that his classics did not go as might be expected of someone who won a scholarship . |
| 24 | The interview with Fisher strengthened Ramsey 's feeling that he had a duty to go . |
| 25 | Three days before the CAA hearing , the new Virgin Atlantic Airways was launched publicly at Maxims restaurant in London , with the requisite drum-banging to ensure the media paid full attention to Branson 's claim that there were ‘ 250,000 people who do not yet travel to New York , but would if the price was right ’ . |
| 26 | During preliminary police investigations into Norman Scott 's allegations that he had been the victim of a conspiracy to murder in order to protect a former lover , Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe MP , the " Daily Telegraph " obtained a scoop from a police source . |
| 27 | He pointed out that Scott 's argument that his building would harmonize with the Abbey and contrast with Downing Street could be as easily turned the other way , and continued : |
| 28 | He looked along this end of Mrs Wright 's house that he 'd never seen before . |
| 29 | And New Zealand admit Chris Pringle became so angry at Pakistan 's tricks that he produced life-time best Test figures of 11 for 152 after scuffing the ball . |
| 30 | Alexandra bought a book on cheese-making and ignored Dora 's protests that she had helped make cheese at her mother 's knee and knew all there was to know about the matter already . |