Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , of course , as they are dreams , that sense that nothing exists directly behind you either is omnipresent . |
| 2 | I 'd study too , so that I knew more about everything than the cleverest professors . |
| 3 | Not that I thought much about it , why should I ? |
| 4 | I have never forgotten that I came home to my wife and said : ‘ There 's a young man working with us and I 'm sure he is going to be a big star . ’ |
| 5 | I was pleased he had n't seen the note or the tears that I left behind on my Granny 's face . |
| 6 | My precious work , my mainstay that I carried everywhere with me — even into hospital — was about to be taken away . |
| 7 | At the time I believed that I surrendered completely to him but that he did not surrender completely to me . |
| 8 | But now that I think further about it , I am not sure Miss Kenton spoke quite so boldly that day . |
| 9 | ‘ I must tell you that I quarrelled violently with your father once . |
| 10 | I would like to say that I agree completely with him about the lack of tennis action on our TV screens . |
| 11 | I was very pleased to see your interview with Nick Bollettieri about Andre in your December/January issue , and I would also like to say that I agree totally with what the other people who wrote to you said about Andre . |
| 12 | She felt a frisson of gratitude at his thoughtfulness ; then , reminded absurdly of Ethel ( who had not so much wanted to be a bridesmaid , as to be asked ) : It is not that I look forward to it , she thought , if Frank was anything to go by , but at least I would expect to be , tonight , a little irresistible … |
| 13 | IT MAY surprise readers of this column that I have never in my life voted Conservative at a general election . |
| 14 | Before dealing with the many points raised by right hon. and hon. Members , I propose to say something about Wales but , before doing that , I should point out that I have never in my life before spoken from one doughnut to another . |
| 15 | I 've got it timed so that I arrive just before your French maid number , so I do n't have to sit through all the rest of it . |
| 16 | It was true that she worried more about her mother now she was living near by than she had when she was living in the Tuscan hills , but that might only be because of the possibility that she would call without warning . |
| 17 | I heard that she lost one baby as well , and I do know that she suffered badly with her legs , varicose veins , I believe . |
| 18 | When she 'd finished she got her bag and anorak , checking that she had enough in her purse for bus fare , and let herself out the kitchen door . |
| 19 | It was n't that she looked forward to them exactly , but the fury he 'd used to generate was gone . |
| 20 | She held out her hand , and as he took it , he took off his glasses , so that she looked directly into his dark eyes , realising with a start that they were very beautiful and rather disconcerting . |
| 21 | Oh , dear heavens , had Naylor , by seeing she was hurt , seen too that she cared deeply for him ? |
| 22 | From the beginning she had never tried to pretend that she was in love , although she was very fond of him , and Fred had told her he was happy that she cared enough for him to become his wife . |
| 23 | Liz , a 25-year-old single woman , had been living on her own for the previous year in a flat above a small craft shop that she ran together with her mother . |
| 24 | The garden 's sole glory was a laburnum , which blossomed wonderfully each year : but even that she associated more with its dry black fatal pods than with its flowers , so often and so rigorously had she been warned of its poison . |
| 25 | And she had bloomed and flowered beneath a touch that she sensed deep in her innermost self was not simply skill and experience , but a kind of homage to womanhood . |
| 26 | So insistent was the noise that she padded downstairs in her nightshirt and picked up the handset . |
| 27 | Burma is fortunate in that she has enough for her own needs , though she was only just able to ensure this during the last harvest . |
| 28 | His greatest , his only concern was to ensure that she stayed away from his sister 's husband . |
| 29 | Instantly , as if he had somehow thrown an electrical switch , she felt a surge of responsive excitement — so strong and so unexpected that she trembled involuntarily in his embrace . |
| 30 | Close your eyes and listen to your breathing , trying to regulate the rhythm and making sure that you breathe only through your nose . |