Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] that [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel really angry I mean I 'm you might say because of my job that I I ought to be law abiding but I am a law abiding person and i like to think that I would go along with all all the laws because they are they are brought in for the benefit of all . |
| 2 | And my my aunt that I my grandmother that I stayed with , their neighbour down the stair was quite indignant and saying , I 'm away to work and she 's getting twelve shillings the same . |
| 3 | I had , of course , been told by my surgeon that everything he could see he had taken out , On the other hand , I had chosen to explore further on my own and I was learning that cancer has this nasty habit of playing possum . |
| 4 | She thought that her therapist would say that this was yet another example of her low self-esteem , a manifestation of her feeling that she herself was undeserving of both property and life . |
| 5 | These discoveries have a bittersweet taste for the many mothers who have been told by their doctors that they themselves were at the root of such problems — because they were over-anxious , inexperienced , nervy , overindulgent or whatever . |
| 6 | It is possible that parents do convey to their children that they themselves do not judge and relate to people on the basis of their skin colour , but they should also tell the child that many people in the society do . |
| 7 | This was recognised by Sir Ernest Gowers in The Complete Plain Words : [ L ] egal draftsmen have to ensure to the best of their ability that what they say will be found to mean precisely what they intended , even after it has been subjected to detailed and possibly hostile scrutiny by acute legal minds … |
| 8 | It was evident from her tone that she herself had given up that delightful if unprofitable occupation . |
| 9 | Medusa was the Queen and so hideous was her face that anyone who looked upon it was turned to stone . |
| 10 | ‘ Our beloved Leader — our glorious Leader — ’ ( this repetition for the benefit of another , who responded , ‘ Long live the Leader ! ’ ) — ‘ has brought to his attention that someone who can still see this nation of the blind has noticed a certain car hanging around the hero 's house , filled with big bad men . |
| 11 | The count had a penchant for asking various well-known composers to write chamber works for him — for which they were handsomely paid — and then pretending to his friends that he himself was the composer . |
| 12 | ‘ Our great founder laid down a rule in his will that anyone who went to prison would not have to pay his subscription during the time that he was unable to use the club premises , and that any unused portion of his subscription should be held over until his release . ’ |
| 13 | He brought with him into the Treasury few old prejudices beyond the self-confidence of his conviction that whatever he believed in at a particular time was right . |
| 14 | Anyone who find , Hobbes 's view intellectually attractive will easily hit upon his thesis that someone who feels pity is simply moved by the self-centred thought ‘ that the like calamity may befall himself ’ , and that people are benevolent only because this produces self-satisfaction . |
| 15 | Er has it crossed your mind that it I 'd might not heard ? |
| 16 | Our independence is your guarantee that someone you can trust is overseeing your investment , selling your home , finding the shop or office that suits your business or renting you a luxury flat for a comfortable and enjoyable stay in Central London . |
| 17 | Yeah there 's there 's there 's a whole lot of others that were in me head that I I meant to write down before you came in . |
| 18 | I I think the C P R E's general comments and and you 'll see from our our evidence that we we 've deliberately not entered into the the the debate that you you 've heard to date this morning . |
| 19 | Presumably there 's so many songs in your repertoire that you you 've no need really to get a new one er you as artists might want to get a new one but you 've got so many er evergreens I mean you could go on for ever with just the evergreens could n't you ? |
| 20 | He said in a quiet voice : ‘ You 'll give me your word that what I tell you will not get back to the Josephs ? |
| 21 | Erm the cluster makes you realise how you presented things to people what you can improve them having things in your hand that it it just makes you erm more nervous because you 're fumbling about what makes me more nervous you 're fumbling about with something trying to do something that you do n't really need to do . |
| 22 | The phrase does not indicate that Brahman does not exist , or that we know nothing about Brahman , but that we know that Brahman is so far beyond our understanding that anything we say will be misleading and therefore we must content ourselves with saying neti-neti . |