Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [modal v] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years , I have wished more than words can say that I could unburden myself , unbutton my secret . |
| 2 | Outraged by the bloody repression , Dai Qing publicly resigned from the Communist Party and said that she would distance herself from politics to concentrate on her writings . |
| 3 | No one was within earshot , they were miles from anywhere , it seemed , and even if she jumped in the river and swam for it the chance that she would outmanoeuvre him in the water was slim . |
| 4 | She squatted down to his level , and he stuck his chin up in the air so that she could rebutton his coat for him . |
| 5 | Tell them all , all of them , that you will noise it abroad . |
| 6 | We need a room with a ceramic tiled floor , a central drain , so that we could hose it down . ’ |
| 7 | and that means that we can sub you via sub |
| 8 | If , as Lord Bruce of Donington points out ( letter , April 2 ) , the new Parliament will be presented with a Bill before most members have themselves been able to read the text of the treaty , this is presumably in the hope that they will railroad it through before the British presidency commences in June . |
| 9 | ‘ They 're confused and disorientated and as time goes on , the risk is going to grow that they will strand themselves on land because they wo n't be feeding and will become progressively weaker . ’ |
| 10 | In 1955 a major Israeli reprisal raid on Gaza persuaded Egypt that it must arm itself , and it found a ready supplier in the Soviet Union which was anxious to gain a foothold in the Middle East as part of its policy of making friends in the post-colonial Third World . |