Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Be pleased to tell them that I remember them with great kindness and great respect . |
| 3 | And it , it was n't until many years later that I told anyone at all that 's , that 's the thing I was saying about bulimia , it 's very secret . |
| 4 | ‘ Will it help you if I tell you first that I love you , ’ he whispered , ‘ that I adore you with all my heart ? ’ |
| 5 | For that matter , now that I see them for this moment so clearly , what has Hugh to do with the king , either ? |
| 6 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 7 | You 're not forgetting that I called you before that time myself , and you told me Bonanza had taken the girl away somewhere ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Now that I have you at last you 'll never be away from me again . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I can assure you that I have none of those — er-appendages . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I keep imagining this morning that I have — please believe me , Milena , because when we 're married you will have to put up with a lot of this , but I keep imagining that I have lots of little crisp sepia legs . ’ |
| 11 | how d you know yeah , you 're telling me now that I missed something in eighty seven . |
| 12 | Because there were , there were easily three lists of influence on referrals that you need to be attuned to , that I gave you in that one erm praise , give a bit of praise to my wife because all I 'm proud of crafty , I thought , you know , why did n't you say that was a beautiful brief . |
| 13 | The reader may have gathered by now that I place myself amongst this group . |
| 14 | If we say that they do have something in common with other things that look white we must remember that their having something in common simply is their looking white . |
| 15 | Tallis was idly aware that she had none of these organs left . |
| 16 | The inner ring itself could never quite understand her arrival there , and concluded finally that she made it through sheer cheek . |
| 17 | But his tone left them in no doubt as to his feelings as he grunted , ‘ I suggested to your fiancée , ’ he uttered the noun with contempt , ‘ that she release you from this ridiculous arrangement . |
| 18 | In this sense , the definition of standards and routines can be seen as a defensive process : the housewife is defending herself against the allegation that she does nothing at all . |
| 19 | Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part . |
| 20 | She felt a deep , sensual pleasure as she held his leaping , quivering manhood in check , but the heat of him was so dangerously exciting that she arched herself in mute supplication , begging him to give her the release that her body craved . |
| 21 | ‘ Nature-lover , ’ he teased , and she knew then that she held him in some quite high regard . |
| 22 | There is no lasting acrimony between Gedge and Rigby and when they meet up he often jokes that she provided him with enough material to launch and sustain a musical career . |
| 23 | He confirmed that you knew nothing about any of it . |
| 24 | She goes on slowly and naively : ‘ I 'm really glad , in a way , that you took me to that place . |
| 25 | We saved them , they were on about cameras and that and then we found out inserts inside it that you got it with that did n't you ? |
| 26 | It 's just that you wrote one to another girl . |
| 27 | ‘ It was not so much consideration as intuition , for something tells me that you visit me with some strange intelligence . ’ |
| 28 | By your expression , I judge that you suspect me of pseudo-intellectual flim-flam and it is undeniable that our deliberations tended more towards the sybaritic than the Socratic . |
| 29 | If you are going to take notes , let the candidate know at this stage , explain that you do it for all the candidates , and that they are nothing sinister but simply a memory aid . |
| 30 | I just hope that you issued him with that warning because I meant what I said — I 'll ruin him if he hurts her again . ’ |