Example sentences of "[num] [noun] that [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it 's not an offence he said if you 've broke down , you ca n't help , he said but you 've got ta really move it so I went round to Paul and there was about seven or eight blokes that pushed it all the way round to Bernie 's . |
| 2 | The 12 hours that shook us all |
| 3 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 4 | I am a thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glint on snow . |
| 5 | Striding as quickly as he could whilst avoiding drawing attention to himself , Sergeant Bird covered the hundred and fifty yards that separated them , and stood close behind a sharp-featured elderly lady who had just placed her shopping bag on the pavement next to the telephone box in a proprietary way . |
| 6 | He has found out one thing in the ten years that separate them , if nothing else ; that now is always better than then . |
| 7 | A good starting point is to ask parents to list ten things that irritate them about the school plus ten things that the school does rather well . |
| 8 | And it has a full PCL 3 interpreter that enables it to emulate Epson FX850 or IBM PP4207 printers . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's getting back in one piece that worries me . |
| 10 | Aerospace is one industry that uses it . |
| 11 | Erm , and the introduction of these forms of individuals erm might have arisen as the one passage that showed us might suggest , the passage from five seven on page three of her handout number eleven there , the need for forms of individuals might have arisen from the following . |
| 12 | The spec was not solely Sun 's work , as the piece implied , nor ‘ rubberstamped ’ by the twelve companies that wrote it . |
| 13 | I mean in in the midweek game against us he had very little play and then he produced one ball that got them an equalizer and I suppose that 's what Frank would look for now . |
| 14 | The former included in its news report a remark from one analyst that Do It All would ‘ never ’ make a profit , but reserved most of its acidity for its Questor column . |
| 15 | ‘ There is one casualty that puzzles us , sir . ’ |
| 16 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 17 | He said ‘ The one thing that keeps me going is knowing that for every step I take and every pound donated we are one step nearer to finding a cure . ’ |
| 18 | If there 's one thing that disgusts me it 's cold porridge . |
| 19 | There was only one thing that worried me . |
| 20 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 21 | There was no one thing that made it go wrong . |
| 22 | The adventure on which he had embarked , which was to give a sort of permanence to the past , was the one thing that kept him anchored to a chair and table all day , and often into the night . |
| 23 | One thing that struck me was the great need to bear children . |
| 24 | One thing that struck me about this contraceptive suggestion was that it was being made by people who totally disapproved of all experimentation on animals . |
| 25 | ‘ As for Guns N ’ Roses , I bought ‘ Appetite For Destruction ’ three years ago and the one thing that struck me was just how exciting the guitars were . |
| 26 | There 's one thing that struck me right . |
| 27 | ‘ There was one thing that struck me as a bit odd when I had a chance to look back on it . |
| 28 | There 's only one thing that struck me when I was reading through it but a as I say , we we got to look at this from point of view are we going to date this as it lies at the present moment and add to it pieces that we want , or do we start off by having the pieces o i its its now whe w w |
| 29 | Parenthetically , erm he says somewhere in his autobiography that the one thing that consoled him in the nineteen-hundreds when he was so miserable with his wife and his mathematics , was the devising of , was the devising of prose rhythms . |
| 30 | Congress , if as a trade union , and if as a labour movement , you stop going forward in campaigning , there 's only one thing that happens you start to go backwards , because this government will always try and take from working class people , all the time . |