Example sentences of "[v-ing] that to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah , well I was explaining that to er the woman that cleans , you know that she told us we can wash ourself , you know . |
| 2 | Relating that to Labour 's ‘ unprecendented mass conversion ’ to moderation in Brighton last week , Mrs Thatcher said she did not believe her opponents now stood for home ownership , strong defence and financial rectitude . |
| 3 | Consumption increased sixfold between 1700 and 1743 , suggesting that to some degree traditional culture was being undermined by changes in the demand for and taste in leisure — a chosen indulgence on the part of the lower orders . |
| 4 | The city joined the Lombard leagues in 1167 and in 1185 , seeing that to its advantage . |
| 5 | Surely , for the sake of her unborn child , she could survive again , accepting that to Ace she would only be just another reasonably attractive girl ? |
| 6 | What er Newstat does though is something quite interesting he says well we all know , well I hope you all know , that there are limits on presidential power and we all know that the president ca n't direct congress , we know the president ca n't appoint anybody without consulting congress , we know the president ca n't control the supreme court , we know all these limitations but nevertheless , leaving that to one side , pushing that to one side , there are major powers here . |
| 7 | I had nice Tory ladies saying that to me in 1983 , and me vigorously nodding my agreement . |
| 8 | ‘ Yeah , well , ’ sighs a world-weary Mark , ‘ when we got to Number One in America it was pretty great and pretty terrible and basically you have to be pretty shit to get to Number One in America , we kept on saying that to everybody … ’ |
| 9 | You are n't , um , merely saying that to , um , jolly us on ? ’ |
| 10 | I was just saying that to Dad here this morning . ’ |
| 11 | Just imagine him saying that to a reporter trying to dig up more dirt … trying to stir it up a bit . |
| 12 | But after I heard Dr Warner saying that to my mother about not having any sisters — ’ |
| 13 | because because that is how I felt when he was actually saying that to me |
| 14 | And I think I 'm right in saying that to this very day , all American citizens officially take an oath of allegiance . |
| 15 | We keep saying that to Steve if he ca n't figure out something me and Marie look up and say get a fitter ! |
| 16 | Are you saying that to yourself rope , hope ? |
| 17 | Saying that to him last night , go back upstairs in your cot |
| 18 | they 're saying that their fixing figures by not putting people on the waiting list so the waiting lists are shorter , because they 're putting , not , they 're saying that to people we ca n't treat you for about two years so I 'm not going to put you on the list at the moment , so they 're , cooking the books , that 's what they reckon |
| 19 | I have n't dreamed for years , and I was saying that to the girls , I had like , three nights of a really scary dream . |
| 20 | Thank you for saying that to us , yes , I would n't have actually picked it up . |
| 21 | Where will it end , ’ he cried out , ‘ where will it end ? ’ ( feeling the helplessness in his own depths , knowing that to the crowd it came as an incitement to great anger ) . |
| 22 | Admitting that to someone as detached and uninterested as the man standing in front of the fireplace was going to take all the courage she had … |
| 23 | You 'll have to keep washing that to er |
| 24 | Thousands of Tin Pan Alley tunes share this scheme and Adorno is quite justified in arguing that to listeners of the time it would be totally predictable . |
| 25 | Sir : Shabbir Akhtar ( 10 October ) himself makes what he might call a pardonable error in thinking that to liberals — genuine ones , not the compromisers so regretfully limned in John Torode 's article ( 3 October ) - freedom of speech is an absolute value . |
| 26 | There are good grounds for thinking that to a significant degree home and foreign capital markets were separate and gave rise to quite different levels of investment expectations . |
| 27 | Much more difficult for a woman because by the time a woman 's got into her forties , her child rearing erm career is usually rather short and even if she wants to continue , it becomes much more hazardous for her and for her offspring , so er in , in the case of erm modern societies with erm monogamy bu but divorce as we have , you ca n't help thinking that to some extent the , the odds are , are loaded in the favour of men as it were in terms of their reproductive success . |
| 28 | Leapor is here parting company with conventional love poetry , leaving that to others who have ‘ a softer Pen ’ ; Swift himself gives some space to describing wedding festivities , though the bitter revelation is expected shortly . |
| 29 | The full extent of his generosity to museums and galleries ( leaving that to individuals out of account ) is known only to those who have , or had , charge of them . |
| 30 | What er Newstat does though is something quite interesting he says well we all know , well I hope you all know , that there are limits on presidential power and we all know that the president ca n't direct congress , we know the president ca n't appoint anybody without consulting congress , we know the president ca n't control the supreme court , we know all these limitations but nevertheless , leaving that to one side , pushing that to one side , there are major powers here . |