Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [pers pn] [adv] that " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ What do you see in him now that you did n't see before ? ’ |
2 | Wife to an elderly duke , he could have added , and his third wife at that ; it did occur to him fleetingly that she , perhaps , had something to gain , a brief recapture of life and youth before it was too late . |
3 | And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know . |
4 | Ellen , I would that you could come to me now that you are alone and would ask you to consider it seriously . |
5 | Can I just put to you there that the pensions regulator may be able to handle aspects like audit reports and established well established documentation and procedures , but are you not really suggesting erm that in the circumstances of Maxwell where the Committee saw for example a transaction that actually had thirty different transactions and therefore unless one looked at the overview of those thirty transactions , one could n't realise that the bank effectively was involved in a fraud . |
6 | Erm it would seem to me therefore that if we 're working in terms of ticks and crosses , that area likely to meet Gre Greater York needs , you ought to have a tick against all of them . |
7 | Furthermore , it did not seem to him right that a specifically Indian movement should be known by an English name . |
8 | We can agree with him therefore that the Pioneers were wrong in their view that the abolition of workers ' rights , expressed as a bonus to labour , was a misdirection of the Movement — but wrong only because there was then no other direction for it to take . |
9 | Er I , I think I would agree with you there that I mean it 's natural to be nervous |
10 | I did say to him once that er I said if you do n't want that ivy I said you chuck it out , chop it down and throw it over my side cos it 's my responsibility |
11 | I think he did say to me once that he was very disturbed at how much coke David was doing , and it got to the point where he did n't hide it in front of DeFries , whereas he did , for quite a while , at first . |
12 | It 's not the only thing you need to do , there are some other things that I can say to you now that you might recognise . |