Example sentences of "that [verb] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Henry Norris was an archetype of the old-style football club chairman , combining a slight knowledge of the game with a great deal of money to put into it , and he fitted the popular image with a walrus moustache that quivered when he was angry , and a pince-nez that had the disconcerting effect of partially obscuring the direction of his gaze . |
| 2 | The yield of clones grown with the grass species from which they had originally been sampled again exceeded that made when they were grown in an ‘ alien ’ sward , P < 0.00001 . |
| 3 | The nearest she came to solitude was the interval that elapsed after she had forced herself to dial 999 on Maurice 's car telephone . |
| 4 | Well , they say that remarks that they would feel were friendly remarks directed towards students they stop themselves from saying and examine and think if I say that will I make her feel uncomfortable ? |
| 5 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
| 6 | He took the stairs slowly , trying to remember if it was the third or the fourth step from the bottom that creaked when you put your weight on it . |
| 7 | The watching nomes gazed at a pack of sandwiches bigger than they were , and a Thermos flask that steamed when it was opened and filled the hut with the smell of soup . |
| 8 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 9 | And it seems to me that this Policy E two is not in line with with strategic guidance and if you 're not if you 're having that are there some special circumstances that mean that you have to explain particularly what it is that you you have to do . |
| 10 | Well that failed as you would imagine it to fail if you take the civil war in Vietnam as being in effect a , a war of national liberation , as the Soviets called it , because what the North Vietnamese wanted was in fact national unity . |
| 11 | Well that failed as you would imagine it to fail if you take the civil war in Vietnam as being in effect a , a war of national liberation , as the Soviets called it , because what the North Vietnamese wanted was in fact national unity . |
| 12 | Not one that cared whether he nicked my bag or not . |
| 13 | Now I found that , you see , cos I passed my eleven plus and I lived in Hampshire and the grammar school was Hampshire Grammar School for Girls , which was quite a long way away from where I lived and it would have entailed a bus and the train and I and there was only me that passed and I , I did n't wan na do it . |
| 14 | And what 's more , there 's no pressure to buy , no long term commitment to meet and a Red House ordering procedure that guarantees that you only ever get the books you ask for . |
| 15 | ( In this chapter , we shall adopt the convention that all numbers that change when they are smoothed are shown in bold print . ) |
| 16 | I like the way the T-shirt falls from their shoulder blades making patterns of straight , hard lines that change when they walk . |
| 17 | He seemed to see himself , small and alone , in the centre of a circular chamber that expanded when he tried to see its perimeter . |
| 18 | In the nineteenth century this all changed because opiates became much more widely and cheaply available so er babies were dosed with paregoric to stop them crying erm er and subsequently in the twentieth century that stopped and we do other things now . |
| 19 | It is an inborn fear that develops when they are only a few months old , regardless of whether they have ever met an owl . |
| 20 | But if you 're really stuck and you 've got a third question that you ca n't come up with I mean y'know sort of blur it , fudge it and make it look like there 's a sort of metamorphic answer there and we can sort of say well that 's sort of twenty percent or something and then that counts and it may carry you over . |
| 21 | I think these blooms of the noumena are fragile like flowers that fade when they are picked . |
| 22 | According to dozens of villagers , journalists , and workers for the opposition candidate , the journalist grandson of Mahatma Gandhi , Mr Rajmohan Gandhi , who is no relation to the incumbent Prime Minister , there have been scores of such incidents in Amethi in systematic attacks that suggest that they have had sanction from higher authority . |
| 23 | There are many clues in the course of data analysis that suggest that it might be better to work on a transformed scale . |
| 24 | Most typically , the apparent reality of the object is an effect of its being treated like a painting ; the text frames its object and then refers to it in terms that suggest that it is already represented on a canvas . |
| 25 | Now it was Alain 's face that surfaced when she let down her guard . |
| 26 | the hall one that matters cos I . |
| 27 | The 29-year-old Scot , a £225,000 summer capture from Millwall , has struggled to find his form on Wearside but all that changed when he came on for the injured Don Goodman after just 12 minutes of Saturday 's game against Barnsley . |
| 28 | A man is tonight being questioned by police in connection with a shotgun murder that occurred while he was on the run from prison . |
| 29 | And why the problems there is that any sort of loud music was actually buried under the auditorial I mean that was the problem that occurred and we had to sort of tone it down a bit . |
| 30 | so those few that entered most of them got prizes and it was three police forces that entered and they all got awards . |