Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen commending his work , not only for the pains therein taken , said that nothing had given her so great delectation . |
| 2 | The key to success with such an approach is planning and communication such that everyone involved understands what is happening and their own role within the total picture . |
| 3 | I was afraid that everyone had lost their voices , er , it 's good to have a , a question . |
| 4 | They are like postcards , so easy to send and so cheap , that everyone likes to have one handy . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | And Howard strolls benignly among the guests , squeezing an elbow here , kissing a cheek there , making sure that everyone 's got everything he wants . |
| 8 | When he was satisfied that he was all right and that no-one had heard him , he picked up the brown bag and moved into the safety of the trees . |
| 9 | They told chairman Michael Croucher that it was only by accident they had heard of the proposals and they were concerned that no-one had told them . |
| 10 | But she knew all the same that no-one had thought she might leave the tent which seemed warm now and dense with the presence of Antoine — Only he 's dead now , is n't he ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It 's hardly surprising that no-one wants to miss their moment of glory . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The young lady in question ( who I shall call Mrs X because I am afraid that I omitted to catch her name ) began by asking me what the bad points were within the embalming profession . |
| 15 | Ever since James brought me the clothes of that unfortunate young girl , I have been beset by a conviction that I failed to notice something of importance . ’ |
| 16 | But now suppose that you know I am behind the tree , you are expecting me to leap out , and I know you know all that : I can still ( maybe ) frighten you by leaping out , just by getting you to realize that I intend to frighten you . |
| 17 | ‘ I just wanted to let you know that I intend to resign my post at the District . ’ |
| 18 | And everywhere else now that I come to mention it . ’ |
| 19 | Yes erm they 're not they 're not add additional representations , they 're not additional to anything that I 've said we 've heard during the enquiry . |
| 20 | Now even more than the rest of the stuff that I 've said I would n't mention that to anybody else no . |
| 21 | and I keep on saying that I 've said it like about so many things when we 're at home and she goes , what is this you always saying well with everything . |
| 22 | ‘ Only that I 've seen them before . ’ |
| 23 | Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another . |
| 24 | No I was thinking that I 've seen her perhaps I was thinking , you know , you remind me of it . |
| 25 | From the plans that I 've seen there 's no change from what they originally planned |
| 26 | Now that I 've seen his photograph and read his prose style , I ca n't imagine how he and Serafin ever contrived to live together . |
| 27 | No , now that I 've seen it . |
| 28 | Not that I 've seen anyone . |
| 29 | Right , now then , be like this I 'll pretend that I 've done something that needs to be , a high sling to support me in this fashion . |
| 30 | That I 've done what I 've done because it seemed to me right , not because I wanted to spite him . ’ |