Example sentences of "that [pron] [be] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Now that I am here I am aware of straining towards an intensity of response that I do not feel . |
2 | ‘ Well , now that I am here it looks like I shall stay until things quieten down . |
3 | He asks me what I 'm doing and who I am , and I mumble that I 'm just me and that is that . |
4 | It 's just that I 'm all he has . |
5 | So I said no , so I 'd better get on with my cooking , so she said oh she said done it on pur colour co-ordinated , I 'm a bit more colour co-ordinated than that I was yesterday I had a |
6 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |
7 | But now that she was here she supposed she 'd better do her best , although obviously it was not a matter to be rushed . |
8 | that 's right , that 's , that , I think it was so , I mean that she was so it must be just something to do with gardens as well , cos she was a gardener was n't she ? , |
9 | ‘ Well , ’ said Mrs Fletcher , 'now that you 're here you might as well take the jersey and socks . |
10 | Now that you are here he will hand and deliver . ’ |
11 | You refused to accept my offer of dinner , but now that we are here you are n't going to refuse to eat with me ? ’ |
12 | And there was n't the defence the water defences , tide defences on the west shore then that there is now you know . |
13 | It 's good knowing that there 's somewhere you can go for advice . |
14 | ‘ There must be ! ’ she wailed , her eyes darting everywhere in a vain hope that there was somewhere she could go . |
15 | And er he tells me he says , Well we night that we were going to do it , meeting them from work it w it was getting dark of course , December , he said that there was only me turned up . |
16 | in that they 're electrically they really are electrical charges , and somebody comes up with a big positive electrical pole of a a battery |
17 | Crawford , who stayed in the play for more than a year before handing over to David Jason , said during its run , ‘ All your career as an actor you dream of having the things written up outside the theatre which are there about me — but now that they 're there it 's in a way the worst thing that could happen to me . |
18 | For example with education , it 'll be a terrible thing for education if the middle classes continue to contract out in the way that they are so we have a divorced system of independent education quite separate from the state system . |
19 | Er and that they are so he asked Mrs to do the reading which she , came out it 's , , but so er there we are ! |
20 | That they were near he had no doubt , for here and there he saw remnant nests and one evening , from out of some bleak crags , three hooded crows flew up at him , black , grey , sinister . |
21 | ignore it they think it , that it 's just they |
22 | very clear , you 've got two officers with shotguns , do you mean that it 's just he gave his shotgun to him and vice versa or you nominated two different shotguns ? |
23 | There 's nothing worse than being in a foul temper and knowing that it 's only you , you 've got to blame for it . |
24 | In view of the technical advance implied it is thought that it was probably he who was the ‘ Mr Showers ’ who was complimented in 1692 for having played in hitherto impossible keys and ‘ with all the softness imaginable ’ ; but at that date the reference might conceivably be to his father or , less probably , his kinsman William . |
25 | You 'd think because we live on you know Woking is on top of us but it 's but it I notice that it was quite you know a time . |
26 | At , at the back of the Three Crowns where that is now , I do n't know whether if it was a bomb meant for the airport , I ca n't think that it was though it was a bit far away for that . |
27 | He says that it was half it 's normal weight . |
28 | Do you feel that it was then you had proved yourself in broadcasting ? |
29 | Suddenly she wanted him gone so urgently that it was all she could do not to order him to get out . |
30 | She was so weary that it was all she could do not to put her head down on the table and close her eyes . |