Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] that [pers pn] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You also know that Christians base everything that they believe on what the Bible says . |
| 2 | Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad |
| 3 | Write the word organisation in the centre of a blank sheet of paper and map everything that you associate with it which comes into your mind . |
| 4 | Well , you 've had all you 're getting , my sweet little stepsister , and that 's the reason I 'm here today — to assure you that I intend to finally put an end to your grubby manoeuvres to extract money from my family ! ’ |
| 5 | No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks . |
| 6 | Numbers of young women have told me that they look upon life in quite a different light now that they learn that nature has not been so cruel to them , as to give them but the choice of a married life , in which probably all the highest aims of life must be sacrificed , and the wife reduced to the level of a breeding animal , or a life of celibacy . |
| 7 | Burun Khan may have told you that we know of such machines , but do not concern ourselves with them . |
| 8 | ‘ Has anybody ever told you that you look like an older version of Jacqueline Bisset ? ’ |
| 9 | You should have told him that we pay for it by the gallon not by the year ! |
| 10 | Basically that it 's there to be enjoyed and that it is only when you enjoy it that you play at your best — I always enjoy my cricket . |
| 11 | It 's as though I 'm holding everything that I want in all the world … there in the palm of my hand . |
| 12 | So how can you view the fact that somebody else is er , typing , or doing a transcript of er , what we 're actually saying on this tape , we should explain what grotting is , it 's most probably you know something that you do on a computer screen rather than if you look it up in the dictionary , what grotting actually means . |
| 13 | Parents often feel that their children should not have everything that they ask for and try to provide some restraint . |
| 14 | But you do n't got you might not have one that you go into specifically in too much detail |
| 15 | I assure him that we look at them every year , but he is aware , as he said during his speech , that there are two different objectives : one is to make the assessments as simple as possible ; the other is to make them as fair as possible . |
| 16 | ‘ Do I take it that you work for the same man as the two who broke into my house ? ’ she asked . |
| 17 | ‘ Now , now , do n't tell me that you put on that dress tonight in all naïveté ? ’ he asked humorously . |
| 18 | Buyer 's guide tells you that I work for and , and that I 'm authorized to discuss 's products only . |
| 19 | I 'd also like to say , Mr. Chairman , that er , I did n't recognise the hospital you said , where we did this operation , , erm , if you want to , see me afterwards , I 'll tell you that you take at the hospital . |
| 20 | ‘ You will not tell him that you know of his lapse , will you ? ’ |
| 21 | But perhaps more important , at this time when the infancy of our species must end , we have an astronaut 's view of Earth rise above the horizon of the Moon to teach us that we live on a tiny island in a vast ocean of energy , space and time . |
| 22 | Every night Tip O'Neill drops by his bed and prays to the same God that you do and he prays for the strength that 's necessary the next day to defeat everything that you believe in . |
| 23 | It 's because you love him that you feel like killing him and wiping him out of your life . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's because you love him that you feel like killing him ! |
| 25 | I had strap many times , I remember once , on my desk , in my desk , they were lift up desks at the time , and it it and it was teacher was a grand fellow , and I got under my desk , underneath my desk , written underneath it , erm God helps them that helps themselves , but God help them that I catch in this desk . |
| 26 | An example of the latter is Anderson 's condemnation of McKendrick 's drunken and hypocritical criticism of the footballers ( " May I remind you that you profess to be something of a pragmatist yourself in matters of ethics . " |
| 27 | ‘ Hard work never killed anyone that I know of . |
| 28 | Strawson is surely right to emphasise the distinction we currently make between what we regard as non-intentional and intentional behaviour , and to remind us that we react to these categories in very different ways . |
| 29 | Perhaps Lagerfeld was trying to remind us that we live in a harsh world . |
| 30 | The seal of the Spirit is meant to assure us that we belong to Christ , and to let others also know the fact . |