Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another . |
| 2 | That I 've done what I 've done because it seemed to me right , not because I wanted to spite him . ’ |
| 3 | Now that I 've heard what can really be done with this 1915 score , I greatly prefer the flavour of the Teatre Lliure 's tough and stringy version to the Carmé Ensemble 's plump , battery-fed one . |
| 4 | That I 've accepted what you 've told me . |
| 5 | so , erm , last night when we came home I looked at this Argos ticket which I could n't find and I 've , in that I 've found what erm a Weight Watcher er menu , so I picked that out , so I 've had erm do n't know what you 'll call it today , boiled egg and toast , eh bread and butter |
| 6 | All this time , all these years , I 've been lugging this weight around with me , for so long now that I 've forgotten what it 's like to be free of it . |
| 7 | I said almost nothing in the letter ; only that I 'd thought about her once or twice , that I had discovered what ‘ the waiting-room ’ meant ; and that she was to write back only if she really wanted to , I 'd quite understand if she did n't . |
| 8 | And after we had met again , he observed that I had achieved what he called ‘ poise ’ . |
| 9 | It seemed to me that I had become what my parents had wanted me to be , and I was getting no thanks from either of them for my efforts . |
| 10 | ‘ Before the night was ended I knew that I had had what religious people would call a conversion . |
| 11 | Then I am happy , in that I have attained what you would call success ; and happy , in that I have attained what I consider good . |
| 12 | Then I am happy , in that I have attained what you would call success ; and happy , in that I have attained what I consider good . |
| 13 | Madam , ’ said Medoc , ‘ you see that I have returned what I took . |
| 14 | It is not that I have forgotten what other people are like . |
| 15 | And in 1987 a lady wrote to the Cambridge Evening News that she had heard what sounded like a cuckoo on February 12 . |
| 16 | Although she was accused of backing down , Mrs Whitehouse firmly suggested that she had achieved what she set out to do , i.e. to show that certain acts could be defined as indecent within the parameters of the law as it stood . |
| 17 | And once broken , once the grief and tears had begun , it would take some little time for her to recover , although now that she had faced what had happened she might do so more quickly and easily than she would have done had she continued suppressing her memories , and refusing healthy grieving . |
| 18 | Years later , when I met , through Eliot 's sister-in-law , that charming , modest , retiring lady in Brooklyn , I was relieved to find that she had liked what I had written about her . |
| 19 | The 22-year-old told the jury that she had entered what she thought was a taxi at an Alloa stance about 1:45am on 26 October . |
| 20 | Laura blinked , realising that she had been so buried in her own thoughts that she 'd missed what Carole had been saying . |
| 21 | That she 'd done what she 'd done — made this Will , that is — not to spite him but because it seemed the right thing . |
| 22 | It was as if he were gazing into heaven , and Agatha was n't so old that she 'd forgotten what that felt like . |
| 23 | ‘ And , now that you 've got what you wanted , you might as well pack your bags and leave . ’ |
| 24 | So in the other version that you 've got what sort of changes to the order have you made ? |
| 25 | All we 're looking for is that you 've got what you 've ordered . |
| 26 | Erm er apart from the mortgage are there any other outstanding bills or , or that , that you 've got which you have been ? |
| 27 | Now erm there are quite a few sort of single parents on the , the flats , now erm are there any problems that you 've had which possibly other people have had , with living in the flats ? |
| 28 | Now what was the first property metals that you have listed What 's the first property in metals that you came to ? |
| 29 | Once you come to the end of the page — or some other sensible stopping point — and assuming that you have understood what you have been reading , write on your pad a heading and a list of the key words contained in the piece . |
| 30 | If you read the paragraph carefully you will find your eyes continually moving to the pie chart for confirmation that you have understood what has been written . |