Example sentences of "that [pron] [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't remember that I ever saw that page . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It is not true that I only play this game for money . |
| 3 | Being a mere composite from charnel houses , I fear that I alone undergo this sorrow behind the eyebrows . |
| 4 | I unashamedly admit that I sometimes use this song as a form of social control . |
| 5 | I was enjoying Oxford so much that I sometimes forgot that moment in Clare 's bedroom when I made my decision about my future vocation . |
| 6 | So it 's pretty obvious to me that someone else used this apartment in your absence ! ’ |
| 7 | Helen admitted that she rarely wears much make-up in the evening , apart from a little gold eyeshadow , blusher and lipstick . |
| 8 | Dr Neil wanted to tell her to be careful , that she really had little idea of how hard and cruel the world was outside the privileged fastness in which she had previously lived , but he contented himself with saying instead , ‘ Have a good time , McAllister . |
| 9 | He had looked after his younger brothers and sister , he had made sure that she always had enough money , but she had been hearing things of late that had frightened her . |
| 10 | Helen amused herself with the pretence that she always lived this way . |
| 11 | She prayed that Steve would n't see the truth — that she still loved that man , passionately , even though he had deceived her so , and that her heart was breaking inside her . |
| 12 | Naturally she pointed out that she never sought this adulation , quite the opposite , and was frankly horrified by media attention . |
| 13 | It seemed that bingo afternoons left her so exhausted both physically and emotionally that she never had enough energy left to cook an evening meal . |
| 14 | Do you mean to tell me that you never see any case of obstruction , street shouting , begging , carts and cycles with no lights , no offences against the motor car laws , or in other words , that everybody — men , women , and children — know the laws so well that they can avoid the many pit-falls ? |
| 15 | If children witness a quarrel , but then see that you still love each other , they will realise that a row is not the end of the world and will learn that it 's all right to fight — as long as we make up later . |
| 16 | While it is desirable that you too feel that way about it , it is essential that the person to whom you are delegating sees the task as valuable . |
| 17 | The most curious thing is that we actually esteem this sort of thinking and consider it clever instead of facile . |
| 18 | As we get older and perhaps more worldly , it is sometimes awkward to admit that we ever believed such nonsense , and even more difficult to admit that not everything we imbibed was bad or wrong . |
| 19 | But there is every reason to suppose that there already existed that division which makes the Church of the later Middle Ages so strangely resemble a military hierarchy , with the upper clergy as commissioned officers , the rural deans and archpriests as N.C.O.s , and the parish clergy as privates . |
| 20 | If a method of collecting evidence is reliable , it means that anybody else using this method , or the same person using it at another time , would come up with the same results . |
| 21 | Normally they do so in such intimate contact that they immediately annihilate each other , because the force of gravity — and hence of antigravity — is weak over tiny distances when compared with the strong nuclear force and the electromagnetic force , which pull the particle and antiparticle inexorably together . |
| 22 | What organizing principles must the cells have so that they reliably give this pattern , even when the cells are rearranged and the length of the line varies ? |
| 23 | Pulse-generating species emit such short and irregular clicks that they rarely jam each other and most gregarious electric fish are of this type . |
| 24 | My mother is a very nurturing woman , says Kate Burton , their elder daughter , I know that they just suited each other perfectly at that time . |
| 25 | At other points the crest from I will coincide with a trough from 2 so that they almost cancel each other out to give one of the hollows of the pattern . |
| 26 | We talk later in this chapter about the use of other people 's words , making the point that one problem with other people 's words is that they usually make more sense where they come from than where you put them in your essay . |
| 27 | Too close and you get swept over the edge except that they usually have some sort of wire-mesh barrier to stop you at the last moment . |
| 28 | But you ca n't con you ca n't persuade those chaps at the north pole that they never get any frost you know , you see ? |
| 29 | I ca n't say whether this is true or not but I have been told , it was spoke about when I was a kid , that they never saw each other except if they were both of the same religion . |
| 30 | Furthermore , the idea the Egyptians had of an eternal and immutable world meant that they never imagined any evolution of social conditions . |