Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [pron] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and that type of stand I mean it that in a very restricted area have n't you |
| 2 | The child 's subconscious reaction remains the same and , unless careful understanding is given to him at each stage of his growing up , he will spend the rest of his life in such a way that he reinforces that self-image which tells him that he is not worthy of receiving love . |
| 3 | That day they encountered an Armenian priest who informed them that the mountain towards which they were heading had never been ascended and , moreover , never would be . |
| 4 | However , his attempts to deflect attention away from his private life has rather backfired because on one occasion to distract a rather persistent journalist he assured him that he was ‘ heavily into drugs and loved having sex with Chihuahuas . ’ |
| 5 | From the script it tells you that after this nuclear war the creatures are supposed to have decayed into these horrible shapes , almost armless and legless , dependent on machines to give them any mobility . |
| 6 | He was only able to shed that bondage through a charismatic experience which reassured him that he was a child of God . |
| 7 | I still had the suit on — and Fly 's glasses if I needed any props — so I got a ‘ that 'll do nicely ’ sort of smile and the up-from-under look which tells you that there are advantages to private medicine . |
| 8 | Instead we are living in a time when we can watch a TV ad which tells us that cars which are way beyond the range of most people 's pockets are being ‘ handbuilt ( somewhere else ) by robots ’ . |
| 9 | But he tempered the apprehensiveness with a shrug-of-the-shoulders-and-oh-what-the-hell attitude which told me that in his view the experience , and not the heroics of the impression he might create , was what mattered , was what he would enjoy , was what he had come for . |
| 10 | In Wildfowl Hall who told her that really she ought not to have left her husband |
| 11 | Indeed at times it appears that she thinks that this liberation progresses from age to age ( though in correspondence she tells me that she thinks that the conclusion to history may well be that we annihilate ourselves ) . |
| 12 | For example , in his verbal sparring which he has with Bajazeth before their battle he tells him that ‘ every common soldier of my army shall smile to see thy miserable state ’ . |
| 13 | Second he tells us that the classical paradises , which you can read about it in ancient authors , none of them are as fine as the Garden of Eden . |
| 14 | I am reminded of all this by a correspondent who tells me that she has had a pear tree ‘ for about 30 years and in that time , have only once had good fruit ’ . |
| 15 | Now , in the confines of The Pub From Hell , Merton , a surprisingly serious chap off-screen who tells me that in the past he 's not been wild about interviews , comes into his own . |
| 16 | And I 've not too many problems to report to you this evening either from British Rail who tell us that there 's a twenty three minute delay on the Manchester to Paddington service which was due in at Oxford at six twenty-four , ca n't quite do the sums there , but it is n't quite due in yet . |
| 17 | She then had a delectable mushroom soup — and for the main course she chose something that was entirely new to her . |
| 18 | But of course she told me that when they came there they were there to look after the place so that it was n't taken over , you know by anybody else , but she had a washing machine , the washing machine come in just after . |
| 19 | Now when I say a black eye I mean one that actually looks blue-black and is quite swollen . |
| 20 | Two reporters in particular , Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post , had already begun an investigation which convinced them that the operation had been planned by officials much higher up than Liddy ; and even more important , that a deliberate attempt was being made in the White House to cover up the whole matter . |
| 21 | Right , the search is on for the person in the team who told me that Larry Adler 's birthday was today , and not February the tenth . |
| 22 | He was awakened by a seaman who told him that the ship would not be leaving for seven days , and there would be no place for him to hide as timber was being loaded under German supervision . |
| 23 | You made it plain from the moment you met me that you were available , but you miscalculated if you imagined I 'd fallen for your little scheme . ’ |
| 24 | Midge had known the moment she saw them that something was wrong and she was hurt by Patrick 's announcement that he was going to pack up his things . |
| 25 | Yes , but there 's no point you doing it that because it 's like , if they are a waste of space you 're not going to be able to get rid of them because you 've told them that they 're a waste of space , it needs to be something that 's much more positive , than just going round saying that . |
| 26 | ‘ From the moment they told me that you were a breech baby I knew I 'd have trouble with you . ’ |
| 27 | When he 'd started regaining his confidence he told us that he 'd taken over from Terry in the endless arguments with David Jacobsen . |
| 28 | When Charman first joined the band he told them that him ambition was to be as big as Marc Riley and The Creepers one day . |
| 29 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |
| 30 | But I did the whole of Orkney for a while I did everything that could be done . |