Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb -s] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are like postcards , so easy to send and so cheap , that everyone likes to have one handy . ’ |
| 2 | We all know therefore that everyone tries to get their own beliefs by methods that will maximise their chances of being true : like Pooh getting his belief about what 's in his honey pot by tasting it . |
| 3 | I was unsure whether to make her Northern , like my own mother , which works wonderfully well with Zelma-like lines , eg. ‘ If you were me , would you wear the blue dress with the beading that everyone 's seen me in , or the new one I 've kept hanging up for two years ? ’ or ‘ Sha n't I buy the beef , then ? |
| 4 | And Howard strolls benignly among the guests , squeezing an elbow here , kissing a cheek there , making sure that everyone 's got everything he wants . |
| 5 | The trouble is that no-one appears to know what will happen after the Olympics and whether if by then the United Nations ' blacklist will preclude British members of the Tour from competing in certain countries . |
| 6 | It 's hardly surprising that no-one wants to miss their moment of glory . |
| 7 | Adding that no-one seems to know what really happened , Slater went on to say that it was an apparent lack of early commitment by Motorola 's management which led to the loss of Sun and others as takers for the 88000 . |
| 8 | If it 's later established that death was due to a blow on the head with a blunt instrument , the police are going to find that golf-club and start asking awkward questions , so she puts it round that someone 's nicked it . ’ |
| 9 | Our normal response is to look for a comparatively minor adjustment near the periphery ; if we can not see the cake when we expected to we would normally suppose , perhaps , that someone has eaten it , rather than that cakes now have a tendency to dematerialize . |
| 10 | Jamie Spence shot a last round 60 to win the Canon European Masters , then heard that someone has said he could have smashed the course record with a 58 — and had blown it ! |
| 11 | Will the forgotten peasants suddenly find that someone has remembered them ? |
| 12 | Real horro , that someone has taken something that you 've bought : because it was my daughter 's first car , it was even worse . |
| 13 | Primary infringement means that someone has copied your work and made such copies public , or has authorised someone else to do this . |
| 14 | But my feeling is that someone has had their hands in the till . |
| 15 | Well I 'd only say that initially erm because then what you end up with is a sort of lucky dip which every now and then somebody will remember the bag of science tricks that somebody 's taught them and dip into . |
| 16 | Well I 'd only say that initially erm because then what you end up with is a sort of lucky dip which every now and then somebody will remember the bag of science tricks that somebody 's taught them and dip into . |
| 17 | On account of the fact that somebody 's mis-filed my folder . |
| 18 | It may be tiring but keep signalling until you 're absolutely certain that somebody has seen you and is on their way . |
| 19 | It is a truism to say that nobody likes paying anything for any service . |
| 20 | I am really sad that nobody wants to do it like I have done it for them . |
| 21 | Absolutely but he 's up against the fact that nobody wants to know what he 's doing . |
| 22 | She 's lucky that nobody has eaten it . ’ |
| 23 | This is a relative newcomer to the hobby , so new that nobody has slotted them into a genus yet . |
| 24 | What makes it worse is that nobody seems to know what happened . ’ |
| 25 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 26 | Diana Adams braved a visit from a private collector this afternoon … to see if she couid identify the spider that she says attacked her . |
| 27 | Despite their different interpretations of the song — the new version is a smoochy ballad , while the old one was pure country — Dolly was so impressed with Whitney 's version that she plans to use it in her stage show . |
| 28 | She sits and watches , and they do not even realize that she has provoked them to it . |
| 29 | It 's clear from all the hospital closures that she has relinquished her responsibility towards us . |
| 30 | ‘ Leaving my mother to feel that she has cheated you ? |