Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | At their elbows stand the ghosts of the fallen in the first world war , reminding them of that earlier occasion when so many ministers preached uncritical political guidance from their pulpits . |
| 2 | ‘ Are you never going to forgive me for that ? ’ he queried , and there was such bone-melting charm in him then that Fabia was glad that she was sitting down . |
| 3 | Well I , I ca n't , I do n't bowl them out I have to bowl them about that far away from the wickets . |
| 4 | I " fackins I commend thee for that ! |
| 5 | According to such a theory , if we , in English , call both our mother 's brother and our father 's brother by the same term — ‘ uncle ’ — it is because these two relatives are , to us , the same ‘ kind ’ of relative , and that probably the fact that we use the one word causes us to see them in that way . |
| 6 | I do n't want to see Sarah in that way , and I would n't want her to see me in that kind of light either . ’ |
| 7 | It would be very comfortable , but they 'd be surprised to see me like that at the Queen Elizabeth Hall . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ How dare he answer me like that ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ And now you 're going to kill me with that ? |
| 10 | Not strongly enough to kill me for that , but certainly strongly enough to make killing me satisfying in that respect also . |
| 11 | I take it you book me into that hotel . |
| 12 | But my superior self made nothing of that . |
| 13 | That turns me on that does . |
| 14 | She is mistaken in accusing me of that . |
| 15 | The hallway and various passages off it were full of visitors helping pyjama-ed relatives in and out of chairs , plumping cushions for them or fetching magazines from a well-stocked rack , or encouraging them to that last little drop of cocoa from what seemed to be a standard issue purple mug . |
| 16 | The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture . |
| 17 | reckon they sell them like that ? |
| 18 | ‘ They do n't make them like that nowadays , ’ he agreed , shaking out a scarlet Victorian ballgown . |
| 19 | And er some of us seemed to be more awkward than others , I mean some people 's feet when you look at them and , and areas like that , that , you think well why did Jehovah make them like that , they 're so ugly and yet without them where would we be ? |
| 20 | Now that those people have run up those enormous debts , where are the Labour Members of Parliament who led them into that position ? |
| 21 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 22 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 23 | You ca n't treat me like that . |
| 24 | ‘ I would n't let him treat me like that . ’ |
| 25 | I know total-total that if I had my own bike , the Wheels-and-brakes Boys would n't treat me like that . |
| 26 | Rumours have suggested Susan Hill was given a million pounds for writing it , she says she got nothing like that amount . |
| 27 | You asked me for that ? |
| 28 | Yeah , well you then just go and change them for that one drawing ! |
| 29 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |
| 30 | Yes and er I er they got me on that and I 'd er seen a bit on it before hand one way or another , but I went to a place and , and asked them if I could er see and er they showed me and explained it , the er the way to er . |