Example sentences of "that [is] [Wh adv] he [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also said he did n't believe unduly in the one-day game , even though that is where he made his name . |
| 2 | ‘ That is where he said he spent his time , but it was n't true . ’ |
| 3 | That is why he appointed him Lord High Protector — he knew and trusted him implicitly . |
| 4 | He conceded that his knowledge of the language was slight ; that is why he referred me to his young assistant . ’ |
| 5 | If KC repeated ‘ girl ’ as ‘ curn ’ because that is how he heard it , he would not know his response was wrong . |
| 6 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 7 | So that is how he did it : as I fill up the blanks of abbreviation in the writing — with ‘ wd ’ , and ‘ wl ’ , and ‘ sd ’ , and ‘ J ’ , and ‘ Ld M ’ , and ‘ ystdy ’ , and ‘ Abrdn ’ , and ‘ Mntrse ’ , and ‘ Ednbro ’ , or some such ? |
| 8 | ‘ And that 's why he killed her ? |
| 9 | More than that , Pilate believed that he was the King of the Jews , that 's why he had it written up and put over his cross . |
| 10 | But when yo when you walk in the door , I mean , first Stuart knew so he that 's why he took me in , and we walk in and there 's a head waiter would you like a table for two sir would you like a non smoking or a smo and then he showed you to your table and pulled your chair , you know , I mean tha not what you expect in a tea shop or coffee place you know i ha ha and they have proper waitresses with the little hat on , you know she 'll get about four tables so they 're looking after you and even on your saucer where you had your I mean yo your teapot and everything on the saucer 's a little mat so that you do n't drip , if it drips |
| 11 | That 's why he thought it was Brian . |
| 12 | And that 's why he said you can go and pick as many plums as you like cos we just have n't |
| 13 | He is that , but that 's why he kept them he used to go down there with him , he got a big photograph of Captain like that er , in his room here and so on . |
| 14 | It 's all so easy for him , perhaps that 's why he squandered his talent — he never had that period of garret starvation that seems to foster genius . ’ |
| 15 | That 's why he got them then . |
| 16 | Tim obviously thinks we 're going to be , in our old age — that 's why he got us involved with these investment people . ’ |
| 17 | And that 's why he made us witnesses and executors … ’ |
| 18 | That 's why he left me for some other woman — one who did n't booze and do embarrassing things , or get moody , or stupid , or passionate . ’ |
| 19 | And he said anyway according to mu dad 's suspicions , and from what mum 's been earwigging , erm that 's why he left her . |
| 20 | Yeah but that 's why he left her . |
| 21 | That 's why he left it so late . |
| 22 | Putting her elbows on the table , she leaned forward and explained quietly , ‘ He saw you , that 's why he kissed me . ’ |
| 23 | I think that 's why he let her go , because it was so well publicised . |
| 24 | That 's why he called me . |
| 25 | Yeah , well that 's why he did it . |
| 26 | and the ones that had been cast out would be without that thing , so that 's why it 's gone in relation to that it 's because those that did n't have the faith that the army officer had would be cast out as the sons , of the sons of the kingdom , that 's why he mentioned it in likeness |
| 27 | I 'm sure that 's where he said he got it from the |
| 28 | and then there 's a shop next to it and he 's selling er stock clearance sales there and that 's where he saw them , the padded shirts , there . |
| 29 | That 's where he made his mistake . |
| 30 | That 's where he met my mother . |