Example sentences of "that [det] [noun] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 She should be able to do that that Sunday you have him Mich .
2 You need to know everything about the way she buys , the way she sells , the way she checks up that that girl who works for her has n't got her fingers in the till — everything about the way she runs that business .
3 There 's no point at a later date saying oh by the way you do realize that that show we gave on AIDS
4 If you take into account the fact that I have been up till after midnight every night since Monday , that I have a cold , and that that morning I had been talking on a sore throat from 9.30 to 1 o'clock , perhaps you will understand . ’
5 My thighs are so wobbly that each day I thank God that my stomach covers them
6 Not that you 're interested , but my thighs are so wobbly that each day I thank God that my stomach covers them .
7 The lily grew so fast that each day it filled twice the amount of space that it did the day before .
8 You will not have to record every tiny thing you eat or work out calories but it is important that each day you weigh yourself if you possibly can .
9 ALAN Hickman from Derbyshire became worried about the advice he was receiving over his pension transfer when he realised that each expert he consulted recommended a different course of action .
10 They have convinced themselves and the public that each year they have suffered draconian cuts .
11 Hawking meanwhile , has a simple explanation for its success : ‘ Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales .
12 When I wrote a popular book recently , I was advised that each equation I included would halve the sales .
13 I was told that each train which passed us happened to be the one that was taking Tam Mahaddie away to kill the Kaiser and win the war .
14 The interesting thing has been that each time we have revised the strategy we have been partially right , but it has only been as a result of a whole series of revisits , reorganizations and reassessments , as well as changing people , perspectives and systems , that we seem to have got enough right to be able to fight our corner .
15 What this means is simply that each time you line up a shot in the viewfinder and before you press the button , you should look on it not as an individual shot as you would a still photograph hut as one of a group of shots .
16 I hardly date write anything about the goats as there are so many strongly held views on management that each time I say I did something one way , lots of readers write and tell us how completely wrong that way is !
17 Of course , this strategy had a distinct disadvantage in that each time I moved towards the light to serve the gentlemen , my advancing footsteps would echo long and loud before I reached the table , drawing attention to my impending arrival in the most ostentatious manner ; but it did have the great merit of making my person only partially visible while I remained stationary .
18 She saw the children of her other daughters Ann and Beth most market days , but encountered Victoria so rarely that each time she had altered beyond recognition .
19 The computer can be slowed down so that each step it takes can be followed on the display of lights .
20 So there would b take away this anomaly of old people having to use three buses to get from one end of the town to the other , which means , in actual fact , that each bus they went on to , they paid this ten pence , which if there 's three , if they do not turn it twice a week , twice a day , that 's sixty pence .
21 William Cecil blamed the devastating plague of 1563 on the overcrowding of the central area and ordered that each house which had been subdivided during the previous year should be restored to occupation by a single family only and that recently-arrived lodgers should be removed , but such measures did not have a lasting effect .
22 Already there is evidence that some firms which have introduced microelectronic production technology have experienced difficulties as a result of a shortage of engineers , technicians and programmers .
23 Is he aware that among women serving life sentences in Bullwood Hall women 's prison for murdering their husbands there are several whose lack of command of English meant that they were not aware that there was anywhere that they could run to , that some women who had tried to run away from extreme brutality were dragged back by their families , and that some were terrified of leaving their children with a brutal partner , and that therefore they had to wait until they could do something about it and were driven to commit murder ?
24 From Africa it was noted in one or two cases , that some visitors who came from extremely distressing and confined situations found it hard to offer to groups the ‘ hopeful and inspiring ’ messages so often hoped for and expected .
25 So the argument put forward by Machiavelli that a leader ‘ must not mind incurring the scandal of those vices without which it would be difficult to save the state ’ on the grounds ‘ that some things which seem virtues would , if followed , lead to one 's ruin and that some others which appear vices result in one 's greater security and well-being ’ , is completely contrary to Gandhi 's views .
26 But if one rids oneself of the idea that there need be any thing in common to good things , other than that they are good , one will be ready to recognize that there may be other good things which do not involve pleasure , that some things which involve pleasure may be good rather than bad , and that relative goodness need not be proportional to relative pleasurableness .
27 As Buck states , ‘ there is , in reality , a lot of difference between the expression of a preference and a choice and it seems that some parents who have heard of the new rights sometimes confuse these two concepts . ’
28 Within days of the allied liberation of Kuwait in late February [ see pp. 37982-90 ] it was evident that some Kuwaitis who had lived through the Iraqi occupation were disillusioned with the ruling Sabah family and were determined to demand political reforms .
29 Furthermore , they suggest that some researchers who have reported correlations between emotional support and health in the absence of life events might in fact be picking up a correlation between chronic strain and support .
30 Even in a legal system which had the narrowest of definitions of murder — say , premeditated intention to kill — there would still be an argument that some cases which fulfil that criterion should have their label reduced from murder to manslaughter because of extenuating circumstances .
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