Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 31 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has starred in what can be collectively described as a ‘ crap ’ of movies since his twelve-year-old big Hollywood hits 10 and Arthur , his own personal jerky series of ‘ Carry On ’ movies — films that in my mind have no titles and are n't short enough — it seems only fair that I point out to Moore that he has made a ‘ crap ’ of movies since his twelve-yearold big Hollywood hits and I ca n't remember their titles . |
| 32 | Suppose that I point at a chair and say ‘ By ‘ chair ’ I mean that ’ , nothing in what I have done creates the desired meaning for the word ‘ chair ’ unless I can further characterise what it is about the object I am pointing to that I am taking as relevant ; for example , I might say ‘ that sort of furniture ’ , and this would improve matters , but I have to have the concept of furniture first . |
| 33 | It is not often that I receive ‘ fan'-letters , and I always acknowledge them unless they are impertinent , or have obviously been written by lunatics . |
| 34 | The majority of prison letters that I receive have the ring of truth ; the reason being that it is not in human nature ( of which the law is profoundly ignorant ) for guilty men to go on proclaiming their innocence month after month , year after year , when they do not have the evidence , the impetus , or the skills to do so , at least with any show of conviction . |
| 35 | This contrasts greatly with another professional publication that I receive which is stodgy and insists on corresponding via an employer 's address . |
| 36 | In relation to what the hon. Member for Walsall , North ( Mr. Winnick ) said about the letters that I receive , very few of them to date , particularly since we have been televised , have been about bad behaviour in the House — rather the reverse — and I wish it to remain that way . |
| 37 | With hindsight , it was inevitable my application to continue full-time study would be refused , for in their eyes I had wandered long enough in the margins and so my hierarchy now ordered that I return to the basics of uniform police duties . |
| 38 | It is in the darkest , unprogressive times that I return to base and say ‘ baptizatus sum ’ ‘ I am a baptized person ’ — and that is sheer gift and grace . |
| 39 | When I refused him , he reluctantly — on the evidence of my bank account — wrote me out permission for four weeks , with the proviso that I return to his office every four weeks … . |
| 40 | It is against that background that I return to the conclusion of the majority of the Court of Appeal that the mere fact that Wickes might be able to advance such an argument founded upon article 30 , which was at least not a groundless argument , compelled the Court of Appeal to require an undertaking in damages from the council . |
| 41 | And the form that I return to is the form of human being , erm , that 's the form that I have and whatever individuates Socrates from Plato erm is not a matter of the form because they have exactly the same form . |
| 42 | If I needed any proof that I bore you , that you do n't care about me — ’ |
| 43 | Well , I think that I bore people endlessly by saying that erm , the first half results are not an indication of the year as a whole because we make the bulk of our pro profits in the second half and you know , that remains , that remains true . |
| 44 | I can hardly remember why I stopped going out with some of my exes but that does n't mean that I brood about them and their later and surely unsatisfactory relationships with men unable to hold a candle to myself . |
| 45 | Accordingly , Sir David has requested that I convey to young Reginald the facts of life . ’ |
| 46 | ‘ The dear man knows that I collect swans , ’ she explained to Merrill and Richard , ‘ and he left it on the hall table with my name on a label around its neck . |
| 47 | ‘ The fame thing is n't something that I thrive on , and it is n't where creative energy stems from . ’ |
| 48 | And that looked pretty funny like and it fell down a couple of days ago and maybe a pretty while afore that I du n no . |
| 49 | It 's just that I du n no I mean |
| 50 | The Prince submitted his action to the judgement of ‘ the one sovereign that I recognize in France — the people ! ’ . |
| 51 | It 's not a role that I welcome , although I try hard as a responsible chairman of the group to do the job as well as I possibly can . |
| 52 | If the truth were known , it is only because I have for so long been lonely that I welcome demands for help . |
| 53 | Is the Minister aware that I welcome both advances which have been made , but it will be obvious to him from my correspondence with the Department that some bullying still goes on . |
| 54 | Not that I welcome change ; I was very satisfied as things were but it was obvious they would n't go on indefinitely . ’ |
| 55 | It was a wholly objectionable idea , it was rightly opposed by very nearly everybody who spoke in the debate and the Government has withdrawn from that decision and that I welcome unreservedly but My Lords a great deal that is objectionable remains in Clause two of this Bill . |
| 56 | I recall vividly one member of the aristocracy who was in such a state about being interviewed on TV that he insisted that I help him go through a half bottle of whisky first . |
| 57 | In the part of the world that I help to represent — Wales — unemployment stands at more than 120,000 . |
| 58 | He insisted that I visit the church and marine cemetery at Varengeville . |
| 59 | In so many of the homes that I visit that is patently clear . |
| 60 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |