Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 Whenever I did succeed in preparing a family meal , I insisted that everyone eat whatever was placed on her/his plate .
2 Mean time between failures on 3.5 ’ disk drives made by IBM Corp of 750,000 hours will have to get a lot nearer the 2m or more hours of the company 's manhole cover disks before it can entrust mainframe data to arrays of the little ones , Electronic News reports : that 's funny , we thought the whole idea of disk arrays was that one built sufficient redundancy into the array of cheap disks that no-one need worry about failures ever again .
3 For you must really endeavour to get ahead with your composition , and that you can do if you have in readiness copies of symphonies and divertimenti to present to a Prince or to some other patron … the divertimenti can be copied very quickly , even though it is true that yours have a number of parts and are rather long …
4 Yet , despite all this , Baxter wrote , ‘ not one that I hear of are fallen off or forsake their uprightness ’ .
5 It is only after listening again to my tape-recording of our meeting that I hear him eventually say in his educated , upper-class Dublin accent : ‘ Well , over 90 per cent of people who get raped are not injured in that rape . ’
6 For instance , the sound ‘ tree ’ that I hear is the signifier , to which there corresponds a signified tree in the sense of the concept that the sound evokes in my mind .
7 Here I want to vary the times so that I hear from a true cross-section of our listeners , and those who listen to the graveyard shift , for instance , probably never hear the breakfast show .
8 I ensure that I hear the views of parish councils in rural areas outside my constituency .
9 No it was during the conversation he er he said that I hear that you went to flat and I said yes and he said er well you just missed me , I 'd been there a couple of days before .
10 The number of people that I hear saying things such as I do n't remember stepping over people in the street five years ago and it 's true , in this city I do n't actually remember doing that , not with the frequency with which it happens today and your government and your party has no record to shout about , absolutely none .
11 Cos erm , apparently erm Trevor was working for Bettaware for Avon and they had the Social Services round to say that I hear that your working and they do toy parties and they said no , I mean there not making a living out of it , it 's was just
12 It 's nothing that I hear , say not another car
13 Some of the horror stories that I hear are horrendous , but I want to tell you three issues that I do actually know about .
14 I greeted my cousin 's suggestion that I drive with him and his family to Italy for a skiing holiday with some apprehension .
15 Rain said : ‘ My conscience dictates that I drive down the Cap and interview Peter Leary .
16 Well our pits there 's a lot of water but it 's , it 's mostly body sweat and s I do get some water off a , a machine that I drive .
17 I admire his talents ; I 'm not sure that I trust the uses he will put them to . ’
18 ‘ My friends are people that I trust and I do n't have to put on airs with them — they know me and do n't assume that I 'm a terrific snob if I happen to be very quiet . ’
19 In effect , all my mother 's female paternal kin are called by the same term that I apply to my ‘ mother ’ ; and all her male paternal kin are designated ‘ mother 's brother ’ without reference to their generational position .
20 If , for example , I call my mother' brother 's son by the same term that I apply to my mother 's brother , the implication is that I share a common relationship with both .
21 Had she insisted that I apply leeches to her son I could not have felt more disturbed , more unwilling to assist at this medieval rite .
22 ‘ It confirmed that I don ‘ t exercise enough and suggested a programme of swimming and walking .
23 the way that I deserve .
24 ‘ I really do think , ’ she murmured mischievously , ‘ that I deserve correction . ’
25 The alternative vision is the one that I subscribe to , and along with me , most historians in this country and in America , and indeed increasingly erm a young generation of German historians , and this is that things began to go wrong well before nineteen fourteen , and that the Germans in fact deliberately started the First World War as the Treaty of Versailles said they did , that nineteen eighteen was not therefore the beginning of the evil , but merely a hiccup in erm a German attempt to conquer Europe , erm as it were , a play with two acts , the first act being nineteen fourteen to eighteen , and then the second act being nineteen thirty-nine to forty-five , two attempts to dominate the continent of Europe by military force .
26 True faith in God means that I distrust myself in order to trust in God .
27 The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink .
28 Charles , her husband , jokes all the time about what I 'm wearing , insists that I join them for formal dinners late at night , and then teases me throughout them because I 've never eaten squid before , and I do n't know what haggis is made of .
29 I 'm taking steps to make sure that I last as long as possible .
30 When I went to the Royal Courts of Justice , the judge knew what he was going to give me , and I got three years ' probation , on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year and that I attend a day centre .
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