Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , ’ she replied tersely , ‘ I 'll make sure that I draw up a balance sheet next time . |
| 2 | I told you in another part of this saga of mine that I took over a Night in No 7 Squadron from a Flight Commander . |
| 3 | It is likely that someone taking up a post direct from library school will have far less practical or quasi-practical experience of book selection than of the two preceding activities , and this may mean that the manager needs to introduce his staff to the basic elements of book provision work in addition to the special features of a particular system . |
| 4 | The woman was so surprised that she fell back a step . |
| 5 | The family recorded an anxious moment during the visit when the King lifted five-year-old Catherine Drummond in his arms and put her ‘ upon the Table which so much alarmed her that she burst out a crying . ’ |
| 6 | But of course he was right about the trouser bit because Nan had a gay disposition and a very pretty face ; what he would n't admit to was that she brought in a lot of custom at the week-end , especially when there was a boat in and some of the sailors would make their way up from the quayside and spend freely on chocolate or toffee for their girls . |
| 7 | The Moon was so angry with the hare 's evasions that she picked up a hatchet to chop off his head , but missed her aim and cut the hare on the mouth . |
| 8 | Erm , Andrew , er , I , I find that earlier on the , the only life cover you 've really got is one that you took out a few years ago , a very small one , and you took that out for a set number of years . |
| 9 | But you need to be careful that you set up a scheme that actually works , and it would be sensible to take professional advice to avoid making a mistake in its tax or National Insurance implications . |
| 10 | This is analogous to a script language or batch file , in that you set up a file transfer transaction which can be repeated every day , short-cutting the need to highlight and copy individual files . |
| 11 | The idea is that you bring along a fully licensed copy of a rival business application , buy a Microsoft Office Trade-In pack , which includes a mouse mat , voucher and pre-paid envelope , post the voucher with proof of ownership and Microsoft sends you Office 3.0 , which has a recommended price of £575 . |
| 12 | This means that you drag up a documents giving directions about how you wish to be treated if later on you can not make your wishes known because you have suffered a serious accident or are very ill . |
| 13 | When you ring , Butlin 's will make a provisional booking and request that you send in a booking form , available in a Butlin 's Holiday Worlds brochure . |
| 14 | My hon. Friend might be interested to know that we sent out a questionnaire to 5,293 people who volunteered for redundancy and 76 per cent . |
| 15 | ‘ I mean that we go back a long way , and yes , there 's a very special relationship between us , but that 's because … ’ another pause , and he raked his fingers through his hair in a helpless , frustrated gesture ‘ … it was her sister I fell in love with all those years ago . ’ |
| 16 | Actually just just quickly er I just noticed on that list of your questionnaires that we got back a couple that they did n't actually know what was going on . |
| 17 | It suggests we input resources so that we get out a functioning professional . |
| 18 | We have maintained a high level of marketing activity in the traditional areas of our work with the result that we brought in a greater value of tender enquiries in 1992 than we did in the previous year , and this we achieved against the backcloth of a continually reducing market . |
| 19 | That we try out a petition throughout all the centre 's in the town . |
| 20 | After six months we had made such a success of our little business that we took on a fourth girl and moved into the garage , as we now needed more space . |
| 21 | Erm it 's quite important that we give out a very professional . |
| 22 | And it came to pass in those days , that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed . |
| 23 | The sole result was that they brought back a hatred of all Europeans , except the Germans , whose courage they admired . |
| 24 | Therefore a physical interpretation of vector components is that they make up a tangent . |
| 25 | There were so many journalists covering the Orkney story that they set up a pool system and took it in turns to go in . |
| 26 | It was not until 1988 that they set out a detailed strategy for carrying out a series of experiments to confirm their preliminary observations that nuclear fusion may be possible at room temperature inside metals . |
| 27 | The Princes will rue the fact that they passed up a wonderful chance to finish off the match on the 18th , for they were one up on that tee from which both the sons hit long and straight down the fairway . |
| 28 | The second , and by no means less important , purpose , is that they open up a transmission channel for information from the recipient . |
| 29 | Kathleen Kenyon , the excavator , recognized two deposits , but since there were coins of the House of Theodosius in each , it can be assumed that they accumulated over a fairly short period , perhaps as rubbish from the nearby forum . |
| 30 | Some use such a sophisticated system that they build up a detailed picture of their surroundings , effectively " seeing " with sound instead of light . |