Example sentences of "[pron] that [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 They had no other Dutch communities to look to ; they kept their own language for over a century and the switch of allegiance from one ruler to another was one that nobody at that time found at all difficult .
32 No , the sole reason for changing one 's mind was that the newspapers and television told one that lots of other people had done so .
33 really need one one that you by hand and the other one that adjusts by the temperature you 've set
34 She reached for her handbag , and with a hurried final glance at the mirror to reassure herself that none of the inner turmoil showed she locked the flat and went out .
35 If he had , she could have persuaded herself that none of it had been her fault — that he 'd physically forced her into making love .
36 Back then it was called ‘ nancy boys ’ which was what my father used to call homosexuals , and he thought that all actors were homosexuals , so I could n't tell him that everyone in the company that I first joined was homosexual — except me .
37 Artemis attempted a smile to reassure him that she at least was n't going to let him down by crying , but he paid her no attention .
38 He was so conscious of her that everything about her was vividly present to him .
39 Joyce tried to comfort her , assuring her that none of the boys would have to go .
40 Or I will see to it that everyone in Cairo knows who is the sheikh who takes money from Copts . ’
41 In these great welfare state totalitarianisms therefore , as in the modern world , child-rearing regimes could regress to pre-agricultural styles , and oral indulgence , Oedipal rivalry and incestuous fixation could all be allowed to occur in the individual because the state bureaucracies would see to it that none of the undesirable consequences of these things occurred in reality .
42 I told myself that someone like Gharr imagine that all women adored him .
43 Physicists tell us that nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light , and this applies to signals inside a computer , too .
44 Since research tells us that one in four clients are dissatisfied enough to stop doing business with a professional firm , it would seem advisable for every practice to follow the Ernst & Young model and ask their clients how they feel , particularly as research also shows that an unhappy client will tell nine other people of his or her dissatisfaction .
45 ‘ Well , so old Wilson used to tell us that lots of men opposed it because they felt it would lead to women in trousers sitting in pubs drinking pints of bitter .
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