Example sentences of "that [conj] you [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 He had always found that once you knew where you were wrong , then you had taken a great step towards being right .
2 All I can tell you is that much will change , rapidly and dramatically , and that once you get over the shock you 'll discover everything has worked out for the better .
3 It 's strange , too , thinks Ingrid , that once you 've actually passed the dreaded date , perspective shifts and the dread of leaving your 30s evaporates .
4 ‘ People think that once you move up to the marathon , then bang , that 's it , there 's no way back .
5 There Postman Pat there , oh you 've got that one , you have to wait until next week , alright , O K , we wo n't buy that cos you 've already got it , O K , ooh , ooh , are you with me ?
6 Well how did you find out that cos you have n't got any instructions have you ?
7 But the electric eel has another set of batteries that produce not steady low-voltage diction-finding transmissions but sudden massive shocks so strong that if you pick up such a fish without the insulation of rubber gloves and boots , it can throw you flat on your back .
8 And a what I would say is that if you pack carefully , and I advise people as to how to pack crockery You do n't put plates th s big plates on the bottom and then build up , because that puts a tremendous weight on the middle of the big plates at the bottom .
9 Crilly says that if you listen well , you can hear the Irish in her right enough .
10 I think that if you concentrate on really short term goals and practise things that are maybe a week away instead of a month away then you 'll gradually , slowly but surely , definitely improve .
11 Now it seemed to me that one thousand six hundred was initially as a result of survey work or shall we say investigation into the housing waiting list carried out by the York housing department , and I have to say that I have a certain respect for the York housing department , and they have a certain reasonable and good reputation within the region as a housing department , and so there seems to me that there is a gr a there is a potential to underestimate er the the affordable requirement that 's been put to you , another point erm I 'd just like perhaps to seek a little clarification from Mr Curtis , was was unfortunately I was looking something else up or my attention was diverted when he gave some figures for Ryedale and Selby , I think he said , and I 'll happily stand corrected on this , that if you take away the York requirement figure from his ten thousand four hundred for Greater York , then the remainder he would apportion to Selby and Ryedale , so that Selby got four thousand two hundred , sorry , so that Ryedale got four thousand two hundred and Selby got one thousand seven hundred , erm that does n't add up to ten thousand four hundred and I I I in total , and I I wondered where the rest was coming from , if I the point correctly .
12 The two pluses are books , thanks largely to Addison Wesley , thankfully decisively so and the oil services business and the only other item worth reflecting , I think worth er , remarking on , is in fact that if you take out the black hole effect er , the entertainment fall was only two million and I think that is a creditable performance .
13 Note , too , that if you write ironically you may seem to be satirising the question , or the process of analytical writing about literature more generally .
14 Yes but what you 're saying is that if you stay how you are now you 're not going to get enough orders .
15 My only reservation for new readers is that if you 've not seen John Bitumen 's wall of hate live , looking every bit like Mussolini with a hangover , the sincerity of the sarcasm and the heartfelt cynicism of the material may not be fully appreciated .
16 Yes keep working while I just explain that if you 've not had it before .
17 I think that if you 've only got twenty spaces then that 's difficult because we 've got a hundred and something members most of whom are in the central belt
18 It is interesting that if you ask where it is that the British Heart Foundation and the Imperial Cancer Relief Fund get most of their money from , it is not like other charities from donations , but it is from legacies .
19 Remember that if you return home at the end of the session with the work you planned to do uncompleted you can not expect to return the next day or the next week to find the situation exactly as you left it .
20 I , when I took them back and looked at them , there were lots and lots of , of re er , errors if you like that if you had really looked at them you could of picked out yourself .
21 The important thing is that if you get up at night to have a wee , you beware that you may feel a little bit lightheaded , so you get up slowly , sit on the edge of the bed , you stand up slowly , and when you 're happy you 're off , off you go .
22 The bulbs were n't just scattered , but were arranged in the correct patterns — so that if you looked up you could see ( if you knew which star was which ) , up there amongst all the dragons , bulls and poisonous scuttlers of the Heavens , right in the centre you could see the constellation which I always thought of as being our special one , a solitary man walking with his faithful dog , the high summer constellation of Orion , the Hunter , stretched and striding above us .
23 And do you find that if you sit down with a guitar to write , with all the best intentions in the world , you end up …
24 We were told that if you went there in the dark your hand would be rubbed by a cold , spectral doggy nose .
25 I can promise you , however , that if you walk around for three weeks with a chest pain , fearing a heart attack at the age of 43 , and you are told you have a hiatus hernia you feel a great relief .
26 But this form of presentation , which needs to be quite formal , what other students have found is that if you dress formally actually it helps you to act formally , because this sort of presentation is going to be very different .
27 I have to warn Professor that there 's more than one party can play that game and if he thinks that it is sensible to run the affairs of this council on deliberate obstructionism on the basis that if you go on long enough you can wear people down then I think it 's unfortunate , it 's bad for this council bad for the people we serve , it does frankly nothing for local government and I ca n't blame central government if it loses patience So I recognise at the end of the day that erm Mr has had troubles with some of his erm er newcomers he obviously needs to re-establish some control over his group .
28 Erm something we did omit , which we should not have done , earlier was to mention the fire escape scenario and that is that if you go out of this door , just the coffee table there 's a large marked fire exit .
29 ‘ Yes really , because I know that if you go down that tunnel , you 'll be dead . ’
30 And I 'll wager that if you go down there tomorrow there will be no trace of them .
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