Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
2 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |
3 | The wind was high when I knocked at her door , and I heard a voice from within that I knew not what to make of , though it sounded like the lullaby of a Mother to her Baby . |
4 | Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one . |
5 | Yeah over that I mean sometimes you want to sit quiet and you can not can you ? |
6 | The first thing that I noticed when I arrived in the dusty Managua airport , besides the tanks parked in the landing field , was an enormous poster of an unmistakable Daniel Ortega , clad in blue jeans and a cowboy shirt , holding an infant with an earring . |
7 | think I mind says that I ask where you going now , going now or , well he 's not been here . |
8 | ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it . |
9 | Can I just say then that I think either it 's got to be blocked completely so they ca n't jump over the bridge , or it 's got to be unblocked . |
10 | If we can learn to be programmers _ indeed we already are — but if we can learn to instruct the computer , then we 'll retain our dignity and our responsibility in matters rather than really abdicating it in ways that I do n't myself favour . |
11 | No oh more sadness there 's one thing that I do n't I searched the whole world for someone like you . |
12 | Erm I mean if you 're if you feel that I do n't I do n't think you 'd have any problem doing this it 's your it 's your it 's the |
13 | that I did n't I brought the rest for Laddy . |
14 | It was n't until I was much older still that I found out she 'd committed suicide . ’ |
15 | That I believe now it 's run by the ladies that took over some while ago . |
16 | Ridging and patching were the first jobs that I tackled once it became apparent that I was neither going to find another job nor be content to remain a labourer . |
17 | I realise that I have little I need to hide . |
18 | I tell yer , Joe , I ai n't too partial to that cove , and nor ai n't I 'appy that 'e knows where I live . |
19 | Already known to have a weakness for a pretty face , it was understandable that she worried now he chose to teach attractive young girls . |
20 | She stifled the inevitable tears of self-pity , only too aware that she had only herself to blame … |
21 | There were those , of course , who 'd say that she 'd only herself to blame . |
22 | It was n't that she cared how she looked , she told herself . |
23 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
24 | So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her . |
25 | She is far more likely to obey the rules if you discuss them with her , so that she knows why you make them . |
26 | It seemed so quick and easy when the time came that she wondered why she had waited so long . |
27 | After all , ’ said the kind-looking gentleman in his pleasant voice , ‘ they were aware by then that you knew where they lived , and that there was a chance you 'd have them arrested . ’ |
28 | The most important factor in ‘ free stretching ’ is that you know when it hurts and how far you can go , making it possible for you to immediately release the stretch should you need to . |
29 | In the concluding part of this chapter we want to pass rough , but clear , judgement on these matters so that you know where we stand . |
30 | she 's just giving , she 's just give me an adult education centre there at Spinny Hill , Northampton and she said they put everything in perspective for you so that you know where you 've got to start , what is available to you and then she said if you go down the job centre and ask them if E T , education , employment training |