Example sentences of "that [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me that nothing really turns on the difference . |
| 2 | It must not be assumed that everyone initially agrees about the implications . |
| 3 | Nothing that I later ate in a restaurant was as good as our dinner , the finale being a ‘ tender coconut ’ pudding , a dish I had never eaten anywhere in the tropics . |
| 4 | Er so what I did was something a bit simpler than that I just went through the memorandum and and ticked off what I regarded as restrictive statements as against positive ones . |
| 5 | There were plenty of filing cabinets , with half-full bottles , and an empty water cooler that I evidently kept as an excuse to have a tower of paper cups . |
| 6 | Then there was this thing that I constantly talked to the press . |
| 7 | Naturally he was very happy when I was able to tell him that I recently came across a couple of cases of them we did n't know we had . |
| 8 | There are certain things like active , that I actually do throughout the branch as well . |
| 9 | Now that I actually stood in the house of Victor Frankenstein , I felt myself no more than a character in a fantastic film . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It 's , it 's like the one aunty Lynne had and I , I bought for aunty Lynne , years ago , that I still got in the cupboard you know . |
| 12 | I was so thankful she was well that I too laughed at the repartee . |
| 13 | I usually do n't mention the fact that I once trained as a social worker . |
| 14 | When I was , shall we say , inducted into the SS , the deal was that I only operated against the Russians . |
| 15 | He lifted and transferred my soul from the depths up to the heights , so that I ardently longed for the pleasures of heaven more than I had ever delighted in physical embrace or worldly corruption … |
| 16 | He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I will begin by telling you that I now live on a farm close to a beautiful little town in Umbria , the region of St Francis . |
| 19 | One is that I often stay at a first-class hotel to merge into the background . |
| 20 | The flat in West Kensington was really only three large , formerly elegant rooms , with ceilings so high that I often gaped at the room 's proportions , as if I were in a derelict cathedral . |
| 21 | I studied piano , too , then trombone , but it was n't until someone at school turned up with a guitar which had been ‘ converted ’ into a bass that I really thought about the instrument . |
| 22 | When I first thought of that I suddenly got in an absolute panic — nothing to do with Darwin , but , you know never mind — and I thought what about those erm , preying mantises and things , which who have adopted their front legs for sort of seizing prey like that they 've even got four legs to walk on — what do the poor things do ? |
| 23 | Annoyingly , I have just discovered ( on my ‘ Fantasy League ’ mail being sent back to me ) that every single pounds sign that I lovingly put in the mail has been intpreted by the damn stupid mail program as ‘ stlg ’ or ‘ u ’ , and I 'm sure there will be plenty of other variations . |
| 24 | Similarly , behavioural variability means that I sometimes iron with the television on and if this reduces the discomfort I experience from ironing ( even though I take longer to finish ) , selective reinforcement from TV viewing while ironing may mean that this also becomes part of my behavioural repertoire . |
| 25 | Conversely , to say ‘ It hurts ’ conveys the information , not merely that I spontaneously flinch from the sensation , but that I am sharply aware of it . |
| 26 | ‘ Even if I am wrong and think of a dozen times , it is still dreadful that somebody so involved in the game is not out there watching the guys . |
| 27 | First , she contended that her husband put her under undue pressure to sign and that she finally succumbed to the pressure . |
| 28 | What the evidence does show is that he was genuinely fond of his new wife and that she probably died of a heart attack . |
| 29 | Theda decided , so relieved that she barely took in the poor quality of his attire , thinking only that the delay must have been made more acceptable to him by a lengthy sojourn in the tap-room . |
| 30 | You felt that she passionately cared about the French soldiers and made sure they won the war . |