Example sentences of "the [noun sg] that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'll never get that ’ was the response that I got , ‘ You had better start with us ’ . |
| 2 | I shall take great pleasure in saying to those to whom the hon. Gentleman wishes me to speak — here comes the opportunity that I mentioned earlier — that , as the chairman of Ford in Britain observed yesterday , Labour 's economic policies would prove suicidal for our economy . |
| 3 | If Labour Members abandon the trusts , which , from the terminology that I have quoted , are so close to their own policy , would they but acknowledge the fact , it is not the Conservative party that would be the loser but the delivery of patient care in Scotland . |
| 4 | Marchmont himself was forced to admit that ‘ Lord Anson 's promises are so long in the performing that I reckon none of us will build sudden expectations upon them ’ . |
| 5 | Milano is the variety that I regard as the standard among the enormous range of Italian salami . |
| 6 | It 's because you ca n't just sit down and di if you do n't know how to spell , I ca n't spell anyway , d' you know when I did it , the student actually wrote a letter to me and to th or to the exam board car saying that this hand-writing is appalling and the spelling , it 's due to the person who was doing the amanuensing , rather th but I was marking it anyway so it did n't really matter , but they were so distressed at the handwriting that I produced . |
| 7 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |
| 8 | ‘ I was so suprised when I got the letter telling me about the award that I burst into tears , ’ says Joan , a widow . |
| 9 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 10 | ‘ It was only during the afternoon that I remembered it was my 15th birthday . ’ |
| 11 | It was through the OTC that I met my future husband , Eric , who was at that time a permanent staff instructor . |
| 12 | Mostly my father just gives me the money that I ask for and lets me get what I want for myself . |
| 13 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |
| 14 | Oh , well that the money that I found out my pocket and the payment granny gave me . |
| 15 | I took all the money that I needed , and left the town . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , he has asked me to make it clear that he strongly supports the case that I seek to make . |
| 17 | ‘ It must sometimes be the case that I bring British fish back to London , but it will probably be in better condition than if it had been bought there as foreign agents insist on good transport and packing . ’ |
| 18 | Yes , if you look at it in a certain light , as those philosophers are apt to who go on to say that there must ( 286 ) have been more than the sentence in my mind for it to be the case that I meant such and such . |
| 19 | we also rely on the fact that the case that I 've drawn to your Lordships attention yesterday , is this was the case in the supplementary bundle where your Lordship will recall that er on the issue of export credit guarantee |
| 20 | Because most of what I have said is fair m most of the case that I wish to put er has come out in the discussion that there has just been . |
| 21 | I imagine that , in the case that I cited , the offender was given the maximum sentence that could be conferred for causing death by reckless driving ; but , given normal remission and remission for good behaviour , there is every possibility that that young man will be freed after nine months in custody . |
| 22 | It 's certainly the case that I appear to be hitched up with Tod like this , but he 's not to know I 'm here . |
| 23 | If the hon. Lady or Puffin Books can show that the use of the puffin symbol contravenes the text that I quoted from the 1986 voluntary agreement , without being bound by court procedures and legal niceties and technicalities , we have a system deliberately designed to be sufficiently flexible to allow action to be taken and new barriers which will not be allowed to be broken . |
| 24 | The hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) has not had the advantage that I have had of studying these applications with very great care , and it is quite clear that he has not addressed the issue in any great substance . |
| 25 | Well it was n't working in the field that I want to work in . |
| 26 | into the field that I want to be in you know I do n't think it 's possible to just walk straight in unless you 're very lucky . |
| 27 | I should have thought that the hon. Lady would now recognise that the description that I gave was entirely apposite . |
| 28 | By the faith that I owe St Simon , I have never liked cheating . " ) |
| 29 | You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time . |
| 30 | Certain parts of me were defined by the grass that I dented with my feet or the cushion that I hollowed with my back and had an identity both in time and space ; but the breasts and cunt he briefly fondled existed only because touched at his will and through his perception of them . |