Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adv] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She still filled her boring blue costume wonderfully , I noted — while part of my mind slowly realized that my ship 's damaged preceptors probably had kept Posi from spotting their approach . |
| 2 | But erm in the back of my mind there comes that she 's saying to me do n't get involved , do n't get involved . |
| 3 | My group actually thought that the return of Peter Pan made a better tale than Barrie 's original . |
| 4 | My husband always maintains that white wine tastes better when drunk outside — by which he actually means that if he is in the open air he is relaxed and therefore more capable of enjoying anything . |
| 5 | But my husband always thought that my in-laws were good to me , because they never criticised me in his presence , He had told them beforehand ‘ I know this girl , what she is like , so I do n't want to hear anything about her from you . |
| 6 | My theory therefore suggests that bands of young male hominids started to hunt first , while older , dominant males , encumbered with their harems and young , continued the traditional foraging . |
| 7 | My father always considered that you were as good as old Granpa Charlie and everyone knows he was the best . ’ |
| 8 | Whether it was the disappointment showing on my face I shall never know , for my guide quickly added that it was a Celtic path and , perhaps , more than 4,000 years old . |
| 9 | With hindsight , it was inevitable my application to continue full-time study would be refused , for in their eyes I had wandered long enough in the margins and so my hierarchy now ordered that I return to the basics of uniform police duties . |
| 10 | You can continue your sport the decent side of the sport without the need for the kill and and we will encourage , my motion actually encourages that , encourages the fox hunting fraternity to look at a way forward , come forward , talk to us . |
| 11 | Detestable stuff , but my Dad always insisted that we had an egg cup full , once a week . |
| 12 | My master finally realized that he could make a fortune by showing me to people all over the country . |
| 13 | Er and that er in my view anyway demonstrated that we 'd got it about right in terms of our assessment of the effects of the Southern Bypass . |
| 14 | My mother always maintained that the first words I said were " Go yay , " which meant " Go away " and showed an independent spirit . |
| 15 | I recently took my beloved Washburn EA30 out of its case only to find that , somewhere between a local theatre and home , I 'd managed to lose one of the plastic slide covers from the EQ ; a tiny thing , I know , but unless you 're Superman , totally unnoticeable from more than a foot away . |
| 16 | None of these large animals could possibly have passed over the arms of the sea which now separates these countries , and their presence plainly indicates that a land communication must have existed since the origin of the species … ’ |
| 17 | He laughed under his breath and looked at her with reluctant appreciation , but Alyssia did n't notice because she was staring out of the window at the passing scenery , keeping her fingers tightly crossed that the car would n't stop wheezing and die completely on them before they reached Nice . |
| 18 | Ruth struggled for words , her mind so confused that she could n't rein a coherent thought to the surface . |
| 19 | The kings shook their heads sadly saying that they could not wait even a moment longer . |
| 20 | If her brothers even suspected that she had been with a boy , all hell would break loose . |
| 21 | Her performance brought the house down and as they stood to go back and see her Maggie suddenly realised that Mitch was no longer there . |
| 22 | In the case of traffic injuries , the temporal proximity of putative causes and their effects strongly suggests that a large part of the fall in mortality from this cause is attributable to centrally coordinated action . |
| 23 | People put together their bids only to find that the work invariably stays with the in-house team . |
| 24 | By our definition these children had recovered , but their parents still reported that 5% of recovered children had stool withholding , 9% had abdominal pain , and 24% occasionally passed large stools . |
| 25 | The early joint appearances of the Prince and Princess of Wales and their travels together confirmed that the public approved of the Prince 's choice . |
| 26 | Its preamble eloquently asserts that the ‘ recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom , justice , and peace in the world . ’ |
| 27 | Its distribution again emphasises that the dispersal of some rare imports may have been governed by social or political factors . |
| 28 | There was a trench running down this one , too , its contents so foul that he walked with his feet astride it . |
| 29 | Home-school links did not feature prominently in this booklet although its content clearly implied that the Authority wished to : |
| 30 | In addition , when cattle got lost , or were eaten by wild animals , their owners sometimes assumed that they had been stolen and instituted a prosecution against known cattle thieves . |