Example sentences of "that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That frigid November of ‘ 81 — or was it ‘ 82 ? |
| 2 | This view is reinforced by the writings of some of the early church fathers such as St John Chrysostom , who observed that there was no conflict over natural common property such as air , sun , water , earth , sea , light and stars or even man-made common property such as baths , cities , markets and arcades , but only over private property which created what he termed that frigid expression ‘ Thine and Mine ’ . |
| 3 | That frigid little scene you treated me to over breakfast ? ’ |
| 4 | Not with that frigid bitch of a wife . |
| 5 | Geoff Tulloch referred to her as ‘ that frigid bitch ’ . |
| 6 | Although from our experience of just a while ago I would say that , undoubtedly , beneath that frigid exterior there lurks an inferno of quite gigantic proportions . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Was your betrothed Matilda 's man ? ’ he went on , still in that frigid tone . |
| 8 | They will work so much better on the day if they are given that advance preparation . |
| 9 | LOOK , TRY AS I MIGHT , I CA N'T JUST WRITE OFF WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN US ON THAT ROCKY CUMBRIAN OUTCROP … |
| 10 | The romantic grave on that rocky promontory ; the great man lying there , his head pointing out to sea , listening for all eternity to the comings and goings of the tide ; the young writer , with stirrings of genius inside him , kneels by the tomb , watches the pink drain slowly from the evening sky , reflects — in the way young men are wont to do — on eternity , the fugitive nature of life and the consolations of greatness , then gathers a flower which has rooted itself in Châteaubriand 's dust , and sends it to his beautiful mistress in Paris … |
| 11 | You can only watch helplessly as your child screws up her face , stamps her feet and screams because she ca n't take the toy she wants home with her , or have that alluring packet of sweets she 's seen before tea . |
| 12 | Yeah , well I bought , I got the C D cheap enough , you know when I bought them that mini unit , that went just after a year , that bloody thing when it packed up , do you remember it was playing in night , in the middle of the night and my dad got up and said what pratt 's playing music , it 's his own ha |
| 13 | The insufferable Untermeyer in 1923 castigated the texture of The Waste Land as ‘ that formless plasma which Mr Ezra Pound likes to call a Sordelloform ’ ; and in the same year in London , Clive Bell , the voice of ‘ Bloomsbury ’ , said of Eliot that ‘ no aesthetic theory can explain his indiscreet boosting of … the lamentable Ezra Pound ’ . |
| 14 | Who is that munching cashews on the tape . |
| 15 | The bubble , that frail bubble which had seemed to float above us , invisible symbol of the understanding and trust which was to have helped us to live together , shuddered and sank ; then bravely rose again into the air , though not now quite as high as before . |
| 16 | The poet gave it to Alice Stopford Green wife of that frail and ‘ singularly attractive ’ priest of St. Philip 's , Stepney , who awoke one day to find himself famous with the publication of his Short History of the English People , one of the most vivid and colourful of histories , first issued in 1874 and later ( 1877–80 ) expanded to four handsome illustrated volumes . |
| 17 | Anna 's blue eyes seemed to see too much , and Merrill had already had enough of that discomfiting shrewdness from Luke . |
| 18 | But there were also major new schemes involving Digital telecommunications , for example the ISDN and a 1987 agreement to ensure that cellular mobile radio ( car telephones ( would move to a common European digital standard . |
| 19 | More than anything else in the world , he wanted to see that muscular hairy body hanging from a bloody meat-hook in the cellar among the turkey carcasses and slaughtered pigs . |
| 20 | It is at variance with the unwritten law of our party system ; and there is no clearer statute in that unwritten law than the rule that party claims should always weigh very heavily in the disposal of the highest appointments … |
| 21 | ‘ If that unwritten law has been broken then heads will have to roll . ’ |
| 22 | The 20th century Serbian history of wars also proves that rooted connection . |
| 23 | Yeah and then he 's got that roast potato |
| 24 | ‘ A cold compress might take down that swellin' … ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Catch that devil-damned rein ! ’ |
| 26 | The serial number of a human specimen is the face , that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features . |
| 27 | These are small boas which , if molested , first coil themselves up tightly , then release a foul-smelling fluid from special glands , giving the impression that they are rotting and that advanced putrefaction has already set in . |
| 28 | Why should the commission believe that advanced mousetrap manufacture , say , should be represented in at least two member states when one manufacturer might supply the whole of Europe with the products and thus could be better placed to export as well ? |
| 29 | On checking through the Division list , I found that among the Members who sadly threw out that advanced piece of legislation were the right hon. Member for Norfolk , South ( Mr. MacGregor ) and other interesting names . |
| 30 | I suddenly wondered , why did they send him on that Adventuring course ? |