Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb pp] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want nothing left here that David Bellamy would n't approve of , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke ordered as the wind whisked her flounces up to display her silk Marks & Spencer camiknicks with elasticated waist and cotton-lined double gusset . |
| 2 | I 've got it timed so that I arrive just before your French maid number , so I do n't have to sit through all the rest of it . |
| 3 | Benedict dropped her hands , but seized her bodily , snatching her to him , and holding her trapped so that she could not move . |
| 4 | Patients who have little chance of being well enough to leave hospital even if resuscitated by medical specialists could make it known beforehand that they prefer to be left alone . |
| 5 | Needless to say , it was the part which most of them hated ; they were longing to get it finished so that they could write their essays on Hamlet or Keats . |
| 6 | Then I got myself dressed so that I 'd be in a fit state when the ambulance men arrived . |
| 7 | Had she known then that her life was in jeopardy ? |
| 8 | As she walked away from him he suffered a stroke , and Alizon was later arrested and tried on the charge that she ‘ practised , exercised and used her devilish and wicked arts ’ and that by these she ‘ had him lamed so that his body wasted and consumed away ’ . |
| 9 | What had he seen here that afterwards had jolted , pricked against his memory ? |
| 10 | We had it organised so that when people contacted us in the first instance , we gave them a menu of mods that we would do , depending on what the customer wanted . |
| 11 | That 's right yeah but I mean they 've got some really , sort of you know , like those things , what have you said tonight that you like , those that jar of stuff , was it something in rum pineapple ? |
| 12 | ( 1 ) Does the witness understand why you need their help and how their evidence will help your client obtain justice ? ( 2 ) Does the witness understand and accept that they may be required to give evidence in court and under oath ? ( 3 ) Have you done all that you can to ensure that the witness is put to as little trouble and expense as possible ? |