Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This included £329,000 to Iroquois , covering fees over the four-and-a-half months that he chaired Eagle , £33,000 to Iroquois ' lawyer and two blank cheques for £250,000 presented to Richard Smith and Clive Whiley , who had just been sacked as directors of Eagle . |
| 2 | Eight words that you think would be most suitably des that would most suitably describe the feelings of the apostles on Good Friday , on Easter Day , and on Ascension Day . |
| 3 | It is a tribute to his determination over his 22 years that he has achieved where so many before him have failed . |
| 4 | Remember the last thing you did was add it on , so if we say it 's two pounds , we 're back down to forty pounds that he 's got to buy units . |
| 5 | In July , a US warship in the Pacific warned an Australian airliner carrying 300 passengers that it faced ‘ hostile action . ’ |
| 6 | In response to claims by MAS that the BBC has circulated a list of 67 records that they have allegedly ‘ banned ’ due to their being unlistenable , a spokesperson for Radio 1 said ‘ Absolutely . |
| 7 | I should n't criticise it as everyone else does , because without the M25 , it would be impossible to get to all of the six clubs that we have built , strung out like pearls , ( or glass beads , my critics would tell you ) around its perimeter . |
| 8 | Alina was holding onto the door , because the six steps that she 'd taken to reach it had almost been enough to exhaust her ; Belov dusted off his hands and came over to her now , and he took her by the shoulders and turned her around and steered her back toward the bed that she 'd just left . |
| 9 | Yet it was in those six countries that it enjoyed the greatest influence and where it was able to generate the most support . |
| 10 | Pakistan also have strong support from ex-Test stars from other countries such as Australia 's respected former captain , Richie Benaud , who says : ‘ On the opening day of the final Cornhill Test I was privileged to witness some of the finest swing bowling in the 44 years that I 've been in the game . |
| 11 | I 've never had a contract of employment in the six years that I 've been there but erm less than forty eight hours after all this happened every employee was issued with a contract of employment . |
| 12 | According to Bernier , who regularly visited the fort over the six years that he spent in and around Delhi : |
| 13 | In the nineteen years that I have been in Parliament , I can not think of anyone , save for Enoch Powell , who has been a more powerful advocate of liberal economics than John Biffen . |
| 14 | However , it is only within the last 10 years that it has become possible to process text electronically and thus improve the way non-routine information can be handled . |
| 15 | What is even more significant for wage profiles is that all of the figures quoted for average tenure are well below the 25–30 years that it takes to reach the peak of the earnings profile . |
| 16 | a lot of it is er propaganda by the Conservative if , if they were gon na get it right , why could n't they get it right in the thirteen years that they 've been in power ? |
| 17 | We 've seen a very controlled and steady growth over the thirteen years that we 've been in business and I think as you can see there year on year we have consistently increased turnover and increased profitability . |
| 18 | But because you do n't that amount has n't been withdrawn from that two twenty five , so that in the next year you put in your eighteen hundred and at the end of that year you get interest on three thousand eight hundred and of course the two twenty five which happens to be three seventy seven , so at that second year you start getting interest on the fifty six pounds that you have n't been required to pay . |
| 19 | I 'm sorry about that the room , erm , okay the six pads that you 've got . |
| 20 | And they had the , the erm they had sort of five out of the five or six horses that I thought were in with a good chance at eight to one . |
| 21 | The Letter of 1027 reports that he visited Rome to pray for the redemption of his sins and the security of his subjects , and tells how he had negotiated with the pope a reduction in the sums paid by English archbishops when they went for the pallium . |
| 22 | Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said . |
| 23 | ‘ Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said . |
| 24 | It was the first time in his 75 years that he had ever been a hospital patient . |
| 25 | The officer told the defendant three times that he considered two pickets at each entrance were sufficient but the defendant , persisting in his intention to join the pickets , ‘ pushed gently past ’ the police officer , ‘ was gently arrested ’ , and was charged with obstructing the police in execution of their duty . |
| 26 | I would n't tell him until he assured me three times that I had the job . |
| 27 | The International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation , Intelsat , owned by some 120 nations worldwide , is under such pressure to increase capacity that for the first time , it is to lease capacity on three satellites that it does not own . |
| 28 | And shortly after the daylight found him , he was pensively studying a box of a dozen contraceptives that he 'd turned out of her soapcase . |
| 29 | De Gaulle had long believed that the PCF 's tendency to align itself with Moscow invalidated it in crucial respects , and in November 1945 he had refused to give the PCF one of the three ministries that he regarded as essential to national security . |
| 30 | In the very short space of time that we have available this afternoon there are three subjects that I need simply to bring to the attention of Synod . |