Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I thought well now she looks familiar as well , I still have n't twigged that its the same Meg Ryan riding her bike and then Meg Ryan comes up |
| 2 | The effect of interrupting sleep after two or three hours is to deny the subjects almost all REM sleep , while allowing them much of the deep slow wave sleep that they might be expected to have in a normal night . |
| 3 | Again there is marked variation from one person to another and from one week to another in the amount of dream sleep that we get . |
| 4 | Sleeping tablets are not recommended , partly because the kind of sleep that they induce is not thought to include the dream sleep that our bodies and minds urgently need . |
| 5 | Any sleep that you have will detract from night-time sleep and reduce the strength of the bed as the sole stimulus for sleep . |
| 6 | I was very annoyed over the whole business this end , when it transpired that nobody had any information on the subject either . |
| 7 | It transpired that her family had moved to Tala-Tala and she could n't face the daily ten miles on foot . |
| 8 | It transpired that what this man really wanted to do was to strangle his mother , a desire which was both socially and morally unacceptable and had therefore to be repressed . |
| 9 | It transpired that nothing dramatic had happened since they had left : tests on pairs of scissors at TVL headquarters were getting under way and Hugh Parnham , the third candidate for the Inside Out presenter 's job , had phoned from Scotland to say he would be back in London the next day for an interview . |
| 10 | It also transpired that he had done virtually no mathematics . |
| 11 | Once he frogmarched a knocker out of a press conference , although it transpired that he could hardly wait to see what the victim wrote next . |
| 12 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 13 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |
| 14 | It transpired that he wanted to be able to comment on each question in more depth and indeed some staff did so on separate sheets . |
| 15 | It also proved to be a fall from grace , as it transpired that he 'd stolen millions of pounds from his workers ' pension funds , to pay off mounting business debts . |
| 16 | Afterwards in the Shoulder of Mutton ( Kneeton Park 1 Knayton 1 ) it transpired that he 's in what used to be known as Tin Pan Alley probably the only manager in the Hambleton Combination ( third division ) who 's also been a manager of the Bay City Rollers . |
| 17 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 18 | It transpired that there was a secluded roof on her house where she was wont to sunbathe totally naked . |
| 19 | But anyway it transpired that there were two groups sort of working towards the same end and nobody could work out what sort of erm role each played and it was terrible . |
| 20 | When we had become very curious about why none of the drains had fallen out , it transpired that she was diligently cutting an inch a day off the other end ! ’ |
| 21 | It transpired that she had also been one of a party at the Hall the same day . |
| 22 | I 'm just praying that we can avoid the type of injuries that we got last season . |
| 23 | I 'm just praying that we win it . |
| 24 | The Bishop finished by praying that what had been discussed would become an apostolic thrust of the diocese . |
| 25 | Now she was praying that her idea was wrong , that she would find herself looking at someone totally unfamiliar . |
| 26 | That night she dreamt that they were all , Larry and Philippa and John and Conrad and Demian and herself , dancing the hornpipe on the deck of a warship that was ploughing through a storm , but Demian 's leg was tragically maimed and would not keep in step and Conrad was shouting at him like a great actor-manager , and the tears were streaming down Demian 's face , or so she thought , until she realized that it was she who was crying , crying for the sick one , praying that her tears would heal his wound . |
| 27 | They were drawing closer to the barrier now and Donna began looking for Julie , praying that her sister was waiting , hardly daring to contemplate what she would do if she was n't . |
| 28 | So she rode slowly through them , mostly holding her breath and praying that they would n't charge at her . |
| 29 | They were not taking the hero for granted , but missing him madly and praying that he would be fit to return for the Davis Cup . |
| 30 | There are thousands , not of his flock , who are praying that he will not . |