Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | It is the same picture of Shakespeare that I remember from schooldays , when I frowned over Timon of Athens and The Merchant of Venice . |
2 | The Theban Herald clearly finds this almost incomprehensible : The city that I come from lives under command Of one man , not a rabble The common man ! |
3 | I have always counted on my fingers and still do and I had been so nervous about this that I went to classes with the ATC in Darrowby before my call-up , dredging from my schooldays horrific calculations about trains passing each other at different speeds and water running in and out of bath tubs . |
4 | Here are the various key thoughts that I use with pupils to try to produce the right action . |
5 | I will join some group within the church so that I relate to others on a personal level . |
6 | So it was that I lay in honeycombs of tiny compartments , stacked into loose piles and sheaves with onion-skin leaves of paper . |
7 | I 'm thinking : I 'm not wearing this , or I 'm not wearing that , my leg shows in that ; but it 's funny , it 's only really at parties that I worry about things like that . |
8 | I DISCOVERED OIL pastels one Christmas when kindly relation bought me a large box after hearing that I painted in pastels ; not realising that it was the soft chalk variety that I used . |
9 | It is appropriate here that I quote from passages in the report of the headmaster Mr which was furnished to Norwich City College . |
10 | Incidentally I was glad that although I did n't feel one hundred percent I was glad that I wandered round Liberties . |
11 | ‘ When I wear a fine coat , the working people that I want for models are afraid of me and distrust me , or they want more money from me . ’ |
12 | You may recall delegates who were at congress last year , that I spoke about governments having the moral support of the people . |
13 | ‘ I was so suprised when I got the letter telling me about the award that I burst into tears , ’ says Joan , a widow . |
14 | In fact it was n't until Anna was here , and we were watching a programme about Romania , that I burst into tears and cried for hours and hours . |
15 | droopy draws the one that I wanted for ages droopy draws . |
16 | More like the sort of things that I wear in trousers . |
17 | But Folly had spent twenty-three years being told that she rushed into things too fast , and she was n't about to let it get to her now . |
18 | And all that time , Franca contained in her breast a storm of anguish and violence so terrible that she had at times , when she was alone and longing to ‘ break down ’ , to clutch her breast with a fierce answering force to keep the black horror from spurting forth . |
19 | Capsules that she had for years . |
20 | The handful of stories that she wrote for children were remarkable for their strong sense of place and feeling for landscapes she had never seen . |
21 | She was so overcome by what she saw that she burst into tears . |
22 | Yet all this frankness was fundamentally an act : to fill the silence that she feared in others , to ward off the invisibility she feared in herself . |
23 | Like Julian , who tells us that she wrestled for years with the problem of sin , Luther and St Teresa both struggled for some twenty years with a paralysing sense of their own sinfulness . |
24 | Dexter distrusted the whole concept , fearing that Blanche did not just operate at the rational level of searching for evidence and reassembling facts , but that she so thought herself into the mind of murderer and victim , that she communed with spirits . |
25 | ‘ But hold on , ’ we can hear you say , ‘ I thought you said that you walked on weekends and played tennis and squash . ’ |
26 | I do n't like those very specialist audiences , the kind that you get at festivals , where you ca n't possibly play a Scott Joplin encore , in case you offend someone . |
27 | I think again the sort of picture that you get from books is rather like a stage set , with everything new from the year nineteen fifty-eight or whatever , all bundled into a room together , this is what it looked like . |
28 | Using CD-Roms will save us around £120,000 a year and that does n't include the added value that you get in terms of sound and pictures , ’ says Mr Wakeley . |
29 | But why did n't you tell me before that you believed in women 's lib ? |
30 | Oh aye you get to know people that you 've for years and years . |