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

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1 ‘ All my school life , I was under the impression I was not completely stupid but pretty dumb so I never had that oomph .
2 ‘ The children like convenience foods such as sausages or fishfingers and chips so we sometimes have that sort of thing , and occasionally we buy a takeaway from the chip shop .
3 Taken in conjunction with what follows they show the development of UK practice , although they also illustrate that progress has been slow and uncertain , and that user education is still generally a peripheral service in most libraries .
4 Once they ever reach that position
5 The feel was ‘ Get to Manchester and get signed ’ although it rarely worked that way .
6 During the first decade it seems , on average , to have run below £200,000 , although it sometimes exceeded that figure .
7 It can help if you gently stroke that side of his face as he eats : the physiotherapist will show you how to do this correctly .
8 In essence , it tells you how much time you have left before reaching the no-decompression limit and also how to manage decompression stops if you inadvertently exceed that limit , or elect to enter decompression .
9 I do n't know if any of you saw very recently , the horrific programme which was on television dealing with this problem in some of the London boroughs and god forbid if we ever reach that stage erm because it is quite horrific so I do think that although we have a problem , our problem is mainly confined to the weekend .
10 If they freely abdicate that power , what they consent to may have popular support , but it is not democracy .
11 ‘ Goodnight , ’ — Boy was not sure if he was yet allowed to address her by her name , did n't know if he yet had that right .
12 If he ever reached that point , contrary to what her natal sign would seem to suggest , she might explode .
13 And he said well just get yourself home and tell your father that I want it paid for this time because I only replaced that glass last week , which he had
14 so it 's no good cos it 's four to A zones , you can run four providing you only have that channel
15 The pre-existence of matriliny was important for Engels because he wrongly believed that matriliny , as opposed to patriliny , was associated with communal corporate descent groups .
16 The argument says in pure training terms is that that one is the best , because it actually says that training will be able to complete the form .
17 While they frequently acknowledge that language may be used to perform many communicative functions , they nonetheless make the general assumption that the most important function is the communication of information .
18 The last superintendent said we ca n't and I think the point you 've raised is very valid since they actually stopped that facility said that they 're not allowed in there it has I think gone into a situation where it is n't a very quite place erm and there problems about what goes on there etc and I think need to look at it .
19 Though the effect is purely symbolic , even poetic , as well as chilling , much of its force depends on rapidly cutting away to Marion 's car being pulled out of the lake — a banal , everyday detail of the investigation that almost makes us doubt whether we really saw that skull , previously forced on the viewer with horrifying shock impact in the cellar scene .
20 ‘ But the Northern Regional Health Authority document shows how long patients have to wait before they even reach that list . ’
21 ‘ Because Vechey was probably dead , strangled before he ever reached that bridge , and what else could the murderer do with the corpse ?
22 I am sorry to say that I often broke the tenth commandment for I really coveted that model and expect many of my contemporaries were also guilty of that sin .
23 Well it 's going to be revamped as er as you probably know that part of the City is being slowly revamped er and this is one which is going to be done in about the middle of next year .
24 You 're allowed to do that for a bit , as long as you finally discern that petomania is not a profession .
25 And you 'll meet some of them when we actually do that area .
26 When they also understand that housing costs play a proportionately lower part in pensioners ' expenditure in England than in the rest of Europe , they may be grateful for the way in which we have promoted home ownership .
27 no , so he said erm , when I opened it court order , I said well I do n't know what yours is I said but it 's nothing to do with this , I said this is about that so when I opened the other one I remember then that when they originally built that court order bit he give me one cheque for sixty two quid and one for sixty nine
28 But the essays are most demanding and ultimately most productive when they too occupy that position of liminality between the discourses that uneasily constitute us and our knowledge of the world .
29 That is , ’ he added morosely , ‘ until the ravens start pecking them , though they usually leave that bit for the last .
30 No one would call our battered brown book boxes decorative but when the PLANTS appear as they always do that morning of the year , their beauty and colour irradiate all around them .
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