Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | What will now happen is that er the contractor will regrade the land , erm but we will grass-seed it erm with Don , er our groundsman will look after and maintain that er so that it 'll be reinstated er over the next er six months . |
| 2 | Its quantitative response , when correctly terminated , is governed by the parameter introduced in the last section and substitution of and establishes that Because u can not be positive at any frequency , there is no range of frequency that corresponds to inequality ( 9.18 ) and equation ( 9.17 ) is inapplicable . |
| 3 | I thought about the chips that Mrs Phipps had spoken of and remembered that I had nearly choked on them once . |
| 4 | Here the use of but suggests that the speaker thinks small houses are likely to be dirty . |
| 5 | One lot of As holds that not only do girls succeed in primary school , they continue to succeed in secondary school . |
| 6 | At breakfast together Fisher exploded and attacked the Church Union and all that it stood for and said that they had done great harm and ought to apologize . |
| 7 | Disguising his real feelings he wrote cheerfully , telling them that it was better here than The Hague , as if to say that nothing could be worse than the hell of being unloved . |
| 8 | But Emeth is saved , for good deeds done for Tash belong to Aslan , and bad deeds for Aslan to Tash ; as if to say that God and Allah are different , but yet that virtuous Mohammedans will be saved rather than murderous Christians . |
| 9 | Dougal gave him a little nod , as if to say that he had remembered that too . |
| 10 | I screamed and rattled my chains ; they turned sluggishly away as if to say that one way or another they would eventually dine on my flesh . |
| 11 | The worst option , leaked in a rather conspiratorial manner prior to publication , and which would have left Wales with two short stubs of main line , was immediately rejected by the Government , as if to say that to the public that now there was nothing more to worry about . |
| 12 | as if realising that these were the last days of his anonymity , he took to walking the New York streets at night , staring into people 's faces . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , ’ Nellie said , glancing quickly at Carrie as if to signal that her father was being secretive about his work again . |
| 14 | as if to signal that the working day was about to begin , the telephone rang . |
| 15 | Mervyn lowered his voice , as if hoping that Ianthe might say something derogatory . |
| 16 | Graham started to smile , though he thought the joke itself might be in rather poor taste , but then he was aware of Sara turning quickly , putting her glass on the mantelpiece and looking straight at him , coming closer , her face set in strange hard lines , eyes bright , taking him by the elbow and turning her head as if to emphasise that she was talking to Graham , ignoring Slater , saying , " You do dance , do n't you ? " |
| 17 | as if to confirm that they had rejected the old emphasis on local political organizations , the new studies gave themselves a new title . |
| 18 | And he glanced down at Changez 's duff hand again as if to reconfirm that his brother had really sent over a cripple as a husband for his only daughter . |
| 19 | From there the head waiter , as if thinking that they were more than friends , escorted them around the bend of the L-shaped room and to a secluded table in a corner . |
| 20 | A tankard on the compartment table sits as a reminder of the glories of Soviet technology — sputniks and rockets spin out of a world inhabited by the Spassky Tower and an olive branch — and , as if to demonstrate that the mundane is as attainable as the sublime , not a spoon rattles , not a single drop of sweet Georgian tea is spilt , as the carriage is smoothly elevated and the task of fitting a Chinese-gauge undercarriage is taken in hand . |
| 21 | as if to demonstrate that this is not a party political issue , it was also signed by Sam McCluskie , former treasurer of the Labour Party . |
| 22 | Then , in a postscript , as if feeling that his measured words had not yet said enough , he added with a sudden note of desperation : ‘ May God preserve us & make us continue to be joy & comfort & wisdom & virtue to each other , my dear , dear , Poole ! ’ |
| 23 | Joan 's face paled and she gazed wide-eyed at the duchess , as if suspecting that lady had taken leave of her senses . |
| 24 | He was the member for a South London constituency , a safe seat which he nevertheless hardly ever left , as if fearing that even a week 's absence might put it in jeopardy . |
| 25 | He examined them from beneath pink-rimmed lids — as if checking that they were his , Trent thought . |
| 26 | He or she will glance ostentatiously at his watch , as if to indicate that an expected arrival is late for an appointment and if he happens to meet the glance of a passer-by , he will more often than not look once again at his watch and cast a long-suffering glance at heaven ; as if by recruiting sympathy for a familiar predicament he will pre-empt any suspicion of more suspect motives . |
| 27 | ‘ When we go in to write songs it 's not fun , ’ protests Paul , who promptly giggles hysterically as if to suggest that , actually , songwriting is about as much fun you can possibly have with your clothes on . |
| 28 | It is not good enough to use language which blurs the sharp reality , as for example : ‘ the ultimate control of the Company is seen in law as residing with the owners or shareholder ’ as if to suggest that there is some other and valid way of seeing it , a way which may put the ultimate control , at least in part , elsewhere . |
| 29 | An air of double-dealing and deceit hangs over those negotiations , as if to suggest that the record of them is in itself a distortion . |
| 30 | Henry gave him a quick nod , as if acknowledging that Dougal was at liberty to use his intuition too . |