Example sentences of "that [pron] be [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perfectly true that some of the things that I am saying today I have said before ; that is because they are true . |
| 2 | " When you notice that I 'm sitting here it means I want you to stop what you 're doing and come round . " |
| 3 | But actually I 'm com quite quite pleased with my body at the moment , my legs are still a bit skinny but apart from that I 'm doing okay I think ? |
| 4 | And if they somehow suspected that I was picking up something valuable , why would any of them try to kill me before the pick-up ? |
| 5 | Worse , probably , would be the shocked reaction of the wider world ( my mother , for instance ) to the news that I was bringing up my children on a combination of take-away junk food and microwave meals . |
| 6 | On my way back to the surgery I brooded on the fact that I was achieving absolutely nothing with my treatment . |
| 7 | But Stuart is so effervescent , so bloody méthode champenoise nowadays that I could have gone down on my knees to his wife and he would have accepted my explanation that I was tacking up her hem . |
| 8 | Is , it was my sweep that I was doing so I 'm keeping the money , nobody else can have it . |
| 9 | it often happens that someone is sent here who is unsuitable . |
| 10 | I 'm over my paranoia that she 's taken over my life . |
| 11 | She watched as the town moved past the grimy train windows and Emily felt that she was tugging up her very roots . |
| 12 | As she ran along the track to the road , she had an eerie sense that she was acting out something she had done before , but she could not pin it down until she reached the road and turned right , towards the village . |
| 13 | She 'd been reading about how Egyptians believed cats guided your dreams , and dreamed that she was roaming around their flat from a cat 's point of view . |
| 14 | Colour swam under her skin , and she moved further into the room and closed the door , feeling as she did so that she was cutting off her last line of retreat . |
| 15 | She pushed her mistake to the back of her mind — and then found that , although the question was on her list , that she was asking off her own bat , and with no thought to that list , ‘ Are you married ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ They 'll think that you are running down your own children . ’ |
| 17 | ( That you are blocking up your emotions ? |
| 18 | And there 's one that we 're picking up which , which Sylvia 's gon na go to a case conference next week , social services . |
| 19 | There 's things that we are doing like I 've been told by a couple of people this evening the autumn programme they think it 's very good very progressive very enjoyable I thi that that to me that reinforces the autumn programme by several people so people who here are people here this evening feel they we say something about what is n't on the agenda or what is on the agenda but I think that 's what the meetings for but I do n't think it 's a bad exercise to talk to the people who actually pay come in the building I mean I think that 's a valid exercise . |
| 20 | Of course my piece will be very different from Valerie 's : I would n't want you to think there was duplication : that we were taking up your time unnecessarily . |
| 21 | Halfway through , Corporal Vigno decided that we were slacking so we all had to do press-ups on the gravel , perched on our clenched fists . |
| 22 | I think it 's one of the best jobs for a girl that there are do n't you ? |
| 23 | But then she found that she must have been without noticing , for she discovered that there was writing everywhere which she could read without even trying . |
| 24 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |
| 25 | I 've no specific information but I suspect that they are cooking up something big and the Romanians do n't like it . |
| 26 | ‘ Then , Master Porter , ’ he raised his voice so the two soldiers hiding in the porter 's house could hear him , ‘ tell them I will check that they are carrying out their duties . |
| 27 | Whereas the men , the men were taught to be more tidy erm although let me say this that er if you asked Jimmy who was an old established fitter in Brothers , where you would find a certain item , you know , in the fitting department , er he could go and get it , erm but er when the new system was invoked er everybody knew that they were stored either you know to the north of the department or to the south or whatever . |
| 28 | The problem was , Cora-Beth could see no reason now that they were engaged why they should not make love . |
| 29 | Tina Brown , editor of Vanity Fair , says , ‘ What no one really explained to women , as they went out on their feminist forays , was that they were giving up something . |
| 30 | It was supposed to be a big secret when we heard it but Open Systems Today must have announced internally by now that it 's killing off its stepchild SCO Magazine . |