Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized that I might actually have a sin . |
| 2 | After the show , he said he would make me one and so I said that I would really like a sort of Gibson 355 , like BB was using in the mid-'60s and I would like my name on it and all sort of things . |
| 3 | So you 're feeling relaxed and comfortable and good because you 're telling me , you know , what a great tennis player I am and I really enjoy it , you 've just given me a couple of names that I 'll either make a note of or I 'll say that 's interesting cos I actually deal with Joe on a business relationship anyway erm maybe we could meet some other people from the tennis club , self employed people , professional people such as yourself , who might be interested in looking at financial planning but today I 'm more interested in talking about you Bill , erm we 'll come back to them a bit later if I may so let's press on . |
| 4 | And I 'm gon na bet you that I 'll either get a red one or a blue one . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's been such a long time , and I want you so much that I could easily make a mess of this , ’ he confessed . |
| 6 | I presume that Eliot , perhaps overestimating my powers , had thought that I could somehow write a piece which would have avoided causing offence . |
| 7 | You , you did promise me Mr Chairman , that I could just ask a quick question . |
| 8 | ‘ I actually won quite easily when I expected that I 'd still have a lot to learn , ’ he explains . |
| 9 | She did n't like to say that she would sooner lick a toad . |
| 10 | When Gloria had got over the first shock of Saul 's horrifying death , she put the warehouse up for sale , together with the contents of the ship-chandlers shop on the ground floor , confident that she would soon find a purchaser . |
| 11 | I hoped that she would then develop a massive guilt complex , but unfortunately she did n't . |
| 12 | ‘ I would not like to have the task of telling her that she would never make a crime reporter ! ’ |
| 13 | She began to consider the fact that she was over twenty-one and felt anxious that she would never get a home of her own . |
| 14 | I conceded that it might have been wiser , and indeed more seemly , to have consulted her before a decision was reached ; but I did not add that I had advised the Prime Minister to agree to a meeting over her head because I was convinced that she would never accept a challenge to her authority . |
| 15 | Bloomsbury House , asked to contribute £35 towards books , told her she was too late that term ( it was November ) and that she might possibly get a small emergency grant for the summer term ( six months ahead ) if she still needed it . |
| 16 | One is married already , one has declared that she will never take a husband , and the third has two suitors after her as it is . |
| 17 | Theda was so appalled that she could barely repress a shudder , never mind summon up a smile . |
| 18 | So strange , she sometimes thought , to have all this engineering knowledge in three languages and still be so unable to apply a single word of it that she could scarcely change a plug without helpful diagrams . |
| 19 | She caught worldwide attention last year when she claimed in a defence of prostitution charges that she could only satisfy a sex addiction by selling herself to the long line of men . |
| 20 | It may sound priggish , but she says it 's unwise to go against one 's nature , its fundamental requirements , she knew that she could only make a go of it , a real go — and that was what she wanted — with some very extraordinary kind of man , and she had n't met him yet . |
| 21 | He had to admit that she could still ride a lot better than he could . |
| 22 | The more she thought about it , the more clearly she saw that she must somehow get a warning to Tristram . |
| 23 | Erm I found the , the greeting and the appropriate sociability to start with very hesitant but I think that was most probably just nerves on your part Robert , I do n't think it was something that you would usually have a problem with . |
| 24 | So sorry can I just ask , so in effect you have n't shifted your ground from the view which you expressed in paragraph three point six of your submission where you 've just confirmed in fact that you 'd rather have a proper or the ability to make a sort of proper measured allocations , part of which would make provision or allow the facility to cater for major inward investment ? |
| 25 | Are you really saying that you 'd rather see a rubbish tip than fairways ? ’ |
| 26 | In the school , I was told in the First Aid that you could always tell a fractured femur ( which happened with elderly women as a rule ) . |
| 27 | At the University of Loughborough there were several people who went on record as saying that you could always get a laugh out of Henry . |
| 28 | It is well-known that the Blitz started with the burning of the London docks , and that this created a blaze so fierce that you could almost read a newspaper at night eight miles away . |
| 29 | Presumably all this applies equally well to , to shops because I suppose you could link up the cash registers to some sort of stock control , so that you could almost keep a running total of what you , you have in stock as you erm punch the appropriate numbers up on the , on the till ? |
| 30 | The nut is the main offender ; it 's so ludicrously high that you can easily slide a matchstick between the top string and the first fret . |