Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [adv] [verb] that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 We never based ourselves on them but we just developed that way .
32 They 're not actually in a conversation but we always do that sort of thing anyway .
33 Most of our caravans are designed for more persons than our description but we only allow that number stated .
34 Landowners and farmers implicitly recognized this division , but they also realized that life both on the farm and in the village would ultimately run more smoothly if the socially divisive effects of potential class conflict could be dissipated or overcome .
35 He also had a stab at writing for a living , becoming a reporter on the Bury Times , but he soon lost that job after trying to inject some of his flowery prose into a report on the funeral of a civic dignitary .
36 But he also accepted that economics in turn influenced culture ; it was the version of Marxism which saw culture as a mere ‘ reflection ’ of the economic base that Weber was concerned to refute .
37 Like Beccaria he said that punishment should be primarily justified because of its deterrent effects , but he also proclaimed that punishment of the right kind could serve a further reductivist aim : that of reform .
38 My husband 's boat was beached and tied but he never fastened that knot .
39 But it rarely happens that way .
40 P it in it includes the am amendment moved by er the amendment B standing in the name Councillor but it equally includes that part of er the amendment C six A. All those in favour please show ?
41 But it certainly seemed that way .
42 He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street .
43 I can see that people must have thought we were being very mysterious then , that we were a bit of a mystery , that The Bar was a very strange place ; but it never seemed that way to us .
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