Example sentences of "that [pers pn] sometimes [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not rude in pointing out that she sometimes fails to apply it , |
| 2 | She has n't had any more visions but she was telling me that she sometimes has dreams . |
| 3 | That she sometimes has bouts of overeating in no way contradicts this assertion : after each one she is overcome by self-disgust and depression , and her sense of futility is confirmed . |
| 4 | This means that she sometimes appears as a person who backs off from intimacy ; you never know what Jenny is feeling . |
| 5 | An odd result of this ruling in the moist atmosphere of the islands is that it sometimes allows company pilots to land , but not take off — a reversal of the usual situation . |
| 6 | Its functioning , including leap years , is so familiar that it sometimes comes as a revelation to researchers into early English local history to learn that there were several calendars in use in the past , each somewhat different from the other , with quite distinct ways of referring to months and days , and with days whose hours varied in length according to the season of the year . |
| 7 | For example , a clause that states that the firm may act as principal or agent may be interpreted as defining the firm 's duties , excluding liability for breach of duty in the event that it should act as principal , or disclosing that it sometimes acts as principal . |
| 8 | Even music is so often used as a ‘ background noise ’ in shops and restaurants that it sometimes seems that we have forgotten how to listen to it . |