Example sentences of "[verb] that [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Folly watched in agony , praying that now she had found no card she would lose interest . |
| 2 | ‘ If you 're going to be difficult , ’ Adam said , ‘ I suggest that either you wait for a hundred years or agree to reduce the amount payable , by half . ’ |
| 3 | If a particular monkey is chased and harried for as long as ten minutes , it may become so stressed that eventually it gives up trying to escape and sits to face its death without screaming or even resisting when the hunters finally seize it . |
| 4 | In those days there was n't a great deal of of mining , I mean was n't open , and er there was a tremendous amount , well there 's a fair amount of of traffic agricultural traffic , and I mean one had to accept that virtually everything came in , all coal , road stone , erm goods required er for well 's who were going at the time , they er they used the railway . |
| 5 | You have to wear glasses to see , if they do n't respect that then you have to bring in reinforcements … that 's the system . ’ |
| 6 | You will be pleases to know that altogether we have raised £1,314.53 during 1987 and we take great pleasure in thanking you all most sincerely . |
| 7 | Would he want to know that everywhere one turned in this Golden Age of the future , there was war and violence and man 's dreadful inhumanity ? |
| 8 | If you do n't enjoy that then you have no feeling for your fellow men . ’ |
| 9 | Now we travelled the best part of the Ukraine and we also dipped into and er we were there about a month , just under a month , and erm one of the impressions that I got there , just as an ordinary chap , no , not learned politically so I ca n't speak on the level er of most of your callers today , but er , I realise that here you had er people , in actual fact my my comment was the country 's half finished , everywhere you went there were building constructions so far incomplete , er projects underway and you 've got the impression that they did need communism in a way to make the thing work er , the er , let's take the Ukrainians , I mean that , that 's where the Cossacks come from and they love a good time , er those sort of people in a way need a strong government . |
| 10 | ‘ I realise that intellectually it does n't really mean very much . |
| 11 | It was a weird , time , with white rastas , art-school escapees , old rockers and punk fanzine costermongers coming together to discover that maybe they did have something in common after all . |
| 12 | How could you really have witnessed that ? and when I say that finally I want to talk about terrier men because basically they 're the people who 've ruined your sport the terrier men are illegal , the terrier men are doing something that is definitely illegal in this country . |
| 13 | I was only going to agree with you actually , and I was just going to back-up what Michael said , and say that obviously we 've got people like Amnesty International , and I know it 's a very hard-working local branch , but obviously , the money it 's raised is going to benefit people overseas . |
| 14 | If er Mr Major is not going to look at why I say that then I hope that he , I assume from that that he has a better hope of peace an an |
| 15 | But what would you do if you woke up one morning to find that suddenly you had the chance of starting with a totally clean slate , and putting together your own system . |
| 16 | ‘ A series of questions recently asked of the general public found that nearly everybody drinks at home some time and that 47pc of people drink at home at least once-a-week . |
| 17 | To bear and deny depression at the same time may seem like yet another paradox , but my diaries testify that somehow I managed to do both . |
| 18 | Having thought he was hungry , he now realized that actually he needed anything rather than the overflowing plate of cholesterol the canteen at New Scotland Yard had provided with such admirable promptness . |
| 19 | Anyone who wanted to feel at one with the earth , to shed the twentieth century and all its trappings , might think that here he had achieved his ambition . |
| 20 | It also made me think that perhaps I had more control over the whole presentation generally which is my biggest concern so get up there and just do some and therefore it 's going to go on to the confidence side of it . |
| 21 | I 'll bet she thinks that directly she lets me into the A.R.R.U. I 'll do a Charlie Peters ! |
| 22 | A quarrel ensues in which the television characters argue that they are more deserving of prayer than novelistic characters because the latter have a far longer life ; the characters from novels insist that only they need their existences reinforced because only they are in danger of losing their audience . |
| 23 | In fact for only 13 per cent was it not much of a whole-school effort , suggesting that mostly it did operate in the way intended . |
| 24 | enable your opponent to abandon a commitment by : describing all the concessions you have made so far suggesting that the circumstances have changed blaming some other party or situation for the present position , such as the government , another union , the economy , the personnel department suggesting that somehow there has been a misunderstanding referring the whole matter to another individual or group . |
| 25 | She sighed heavily as she realised that either she had to confess or , much worse , she was going to have to continue to lie to them by inventing , when asked , things which she and Cara had done together while touring Czechoslovakia . |
| 26 | Be nice to see that really I suppose . |
| 27 | She boiled at his lack of thought for her and replied , louder than she had intended that indeed he had , that , unlike last year , there was a choice . |
| 28 | In this case , the taxpayers should ensure that either they pay rent for each day of the use or that the property is not available for their use for extended periods when the parties have no intention of using the same . |
| 29 | And I know she knows , but I worry that maybe I have n't said the right words the right way . |
| 30 | Colin Calderwood says that everywhere you go people stop and wave and that 's very nice but it 's been good to get away this week but now they 're back in town the pressure will start to build |