Example sentences of "[adv] that [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well the , the , the , the , the sort of , the sort of background as I have seen it he never struck me as being particularly clever or bright it 's just that he always seemed to be very well taught and academically successful and exams never seemed an undue problem , and so he went off to Wolverhampton Poly which he selected for , you know , all the usual reasons , reasonable place , reasonable course , a reasonable this a reasonable that , tt erm to do computer science which of course all the kids want to do now erm twentieth centu no it is n't it 's a sort of nineteen eighties version of wanting to be an engine driver is n't it ? |
| 32 | It 's just that you never think of humans as having holes in their socks . ’ |
| 33 | No , I think it 's just that it just seems to be like this every year now Peter , that everybody tends to erm wait until the last minute . |
| 34 | So Grice 's point is not that we always adhere to these maxims on a superficial level but rather that , wherever possible , people will interpret what we say as conforming to the maxims on at least some level . |
| 35 | Thing is though it 's not that I really care about him personally , you know it 's not that I 'm thinking oh it 's a real shame , but it 's just , and usually if , if people are complete dicks I think well er you know , sod them |
| 36 | The reason is not that I now disagree with the stance I took ten years ago , but that in this past decade my own understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit in the individual and in the Church has greatly developed , and the whole charismatic or renewal movement , then comparatively young , has matured enormously within the life of the Church at large . |
| 37 | Not that I ever went into the house , for the doctor 's surgery , which he shared with one other , stood in Witney High Street where it widened into the market place . |
| 38 | Not that I ever wanted to . |
| 39 | Not that it really mattered to him any more . |
| 40 | Not that it seriously occurred to either of us that anyone might think we had murdered Dennis . |
| 41 | The elderly relatives did what they could but it meant that all through his life — not that he even survived to forty — there was never a chance to take it a bit easier , no one he could rely on to do the work if he was ill or tired . |
| 42 | It should be noted that he remarks that ‘ people ’ do not want to see a black face , not that he personally objects to such a sight . |
| 43 | Not that he ever danced with me . ’ |
| 44 | Perhaps it was more that she just wanted to be somewhere else . |
| 45 | It was in fact more than a week later that he finally arrived in Switham . |
| 46 | Clarissa pointed out that nobody else seemed to be making a fuss . |
| 47 | In 1986 , a new Explanatory Foreword to SSAPs was issued which points out that they only apply to nationalized industries because the Government requires them to . |
| 48 | Mills was amoral and untrustworthy , but we 've known for a while now that he definitely worked for us . ’ |
| 49 | There were so many cracks in it now that it barely held at all . |
| 50 | Now that I actually stood in the house of Victor Frankenstein , I felt myself no more than a character in a fantastic film . |
| 51 | It happened so fast and so drastically that I nearly slid after him , managing only instinctively to pivot on one foot and throw myself headlong back onto the boards still remaining solid behind the hole . |
| 52 | He has already allowed friends to put it around that he only stayed as Chancellor after Black Wednesday because Mr Major begged him to . |
| 53 | The long-established Manx cat is certainly as abnormal as any of them , with its strangely abbreviated backbone and the problems this causes , but its presence at cat shows was accepted so long ago that nobody now objects to its inclusion . |
| 54 | SATELLITES : They are in SPACE and stay there by going so fast that they never stay in one place long enough to fall down . |
| 55 | The last words came so vehemently that she almost choked on them . |
| 56 | There is a misunderstanding abroad that I also suffer from this unpleasant ailment . |
| 57 | And it was then that I almost tripped over her . ’ |
| 58 | And at that stage it was too late to go down the rope so it was just instinct more than anything else that we just jumped over the side from where we were then . |