Example sentences of "that [pron] [adv] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His main principle with regard to the past was that nothing once given to God or the saints could be restored to the kingdom of this world without injustice . |
| 2 | Another poem that I have dated in the typescript ‘ December , 1957 , Plaza de Anaya , Salamanca ’ , is one I was able to write for myself , and that I never showed to Dana . |
| 3 | It would not be whimsical to suggest that I still go to Arsenal now because of what Swindon did to me then : like a gambler who keeps playing because it is the only way to win back what he has lost , I still feel , somewhere in me , that I am owed for what Ian Ure and Jon Sammels and Bobby Gould put me through that afternoon . |
| 4 | The reason I want to learn ISL is that I often go to Dublin and feel ashamed of my inability to communicate . |
| 5 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |
| 6 | There was further antagonism when she failed to get into Leeds Polytechnic but wanted to be with Gedge so much that she still moved to Leeds anyway . |
| 7 | She spoke — more slowly than she had spoken before — and Fatima listened with a concentrated intensity that she never lent to Marie Claire 's requests and detailed instructions . |
| 8 | And the worst thing is she was trying to tell a coloured person that there was n't any prejudice , and that you only come to school to learn about the European way of life . |
| 9 | Indeed it may well be that a claim for contribution in respect of exemplary damages is not within section 1(1) on the facts of this case , so that one never gets to section 2 in relation to such a claim . |
| 10 | One aspect of performance that one might expect of any machine that was to pass the test ( by behaving in such a way that the human interlocutor never even suspected a machine was present ) would be to have the sort of final authority over what state it was in that we normally concede to humans : when Jones , on the neurosurgeon 's table , insists that he is in pain , we tend to allow his authority even though the neurosurgeon says that , given the position of the brain probe at that moment , he should not be . |
| 11 | He claimed that they soon adapted to life in captivity and became useful pest-controllers . |
| 12 | editor of the Eatanswill Independent , a fire-eater and a Buff ( Whig ) , whose opinions so inflame his rival Pott , editor of the Blue ( Tory ) Eatanswill Gazette , that they eventually come to blows . |
| 13 | Often they were detailed and informative ; and many were published under pressure from the House of Commons rather than by the free decision of the government , though the fact that they normally related to negotiations which had been concluded rather than to any still in progress inevitably limited their usefulness as a weapon of parliamentary control . |
| 14 | They were monotonous in the sense that they usually related to allegations that there was some special relationship between the Prime Minister and Marcia Williams , and indeed I advised Mrs Williams in connection with insulting letters that she received . |
| 15 | used to say , that cases used to come before her court in in Rochdale , and it was an absolute disgrace that they ever came to court . |
| 16 | One of the unintended consequences of its use , however , as we shall see later , is that it also offers to readers an unusually rigid and frequently biased conception of gender . |
| 17 | It has been argued by some that training plays no part in refining the skills of headship which can only be learned through experience ; presumably the proponents of this view would say that it also applies to officers . |
| 18 | It was obviously old , but so corroded that it almost fell to pieces in my hand . |
| 19 | I suppose it could be that he just wants to crow in his own back yard . |
| 20 | Prodded for details of his own guitar tunings , Cooder reveals that he mostly sticks to DGDGBD , a plain open G , or DADF&sharp ; AD , an open D , although he sometimes changes the open G to an open C , or tunes the second string up to make open D into a D6 tuning . |
| 21 | You know someone who you believe is a supporter and in conversation it 's mentioned that he regularly gives to charities . |
| 22 | Davies was sacked for falsely telling editor Richard Stott that he never went to Ohio in 1985 . |
| 23 | MANSON 'S SOLO LP , featuring songs that he originally presented to Byrds producer Terry Melcher in the hope of landing a major record deal . |
| 24 | I suppose I 'd like to feel safe in the knowledge that whatever else happens to music , people will just keep listening . |