Example sentences of "that i [vb base] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She did n't go out drinking or dancing ; she did n't do as one mother she 'd known ( in a story of maternal neglect that I remember feeling was over the top at the time ) and tie a piece of string round my big toe , dangle it through the window and down the front of the house , so that the drunken mother , returning from her carousing , could tug at it , wake the child , get the front door opened and send it down the shop for a basin of pie and peas .
2 Yeah but I mean I think the stuff , the stuff that I 've written is like rubbish , it 's like I du n no
3 The first items that I wish to acknowledge are from Mr Norman Wheeler of Stokesay .
4 ‘ Those that I have seen are of the same basic stock , ’ he said at last .
5 Since the trends that I have observed are at work in most other fields of business activity it seems unlikely that the book trade will be able to avoid them .
6 Another trick that I have learnt is for increasing the likelihood that I will actually get down to a job which is becoming urgent but which I do n't want to do .
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