Example sentences of "that [pron] be [verb] [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The point is that I am teaching them a difference , ’ Diana told a friend . |
| 2 | Anne is abroad at the moment , doing some research , but she left a message with someone that I 'm to give her a ring when she gets back . |
| 3 | Fact that I was calling him a murderer had nothing to do with it . |
| 4 | Probably nothing , he was thinking , she 's only winding me up , and the thought that she was gave him a pleasurable kick . |
| 5 | The great thing about the game is that you 're teaching them a little bit of culture |
| 6 | The law then pretends it 's a waif or stray and that you 're doing it a favour , and all is forgiven . |
| 7 | The writer in us has to know that we are making it a priority , that we are prepared to let other obligations go in order to play with it , nourish it , accord it a central place in our lives . |
| 8 | ‘ They 're still very patronising to me , keep hinting that they 're doing me a favour . ’ |
| 9 | As Coleman 's real job was to file back-channel reports on the operations of DEA Nicosia , the DIA was hardly likely to have told Hurley that they were lending him a full-time agent . |
| 10 | You 're lucky in a way that he 's there , and lucky , too , that he 's got his music and that it 's bringing him a name , for it 's some sort of compensation in the meantime , helping his waiting . ’ |
| 11 | in other words if you read it without any experience you might start thinking that it 's giving you a vision of the real heaven where as it 's just symbolic |
| 12 | I recently asked Lord King of British Airways about his decision to buy Boeing aircraft and United States General Electric aero engines — not only that , but the fact that he was giving them a foothold in Britain at the expense of Rolls-Royce . |
| 13 | He went out , and Merrill sensed that he was giving her a breathing space . |