Example sentences of "[det] [conj] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the time he is encouraged to dabble in this or that to no lasting effect and the relief that such an MP feels when given an actual job , a place to go from 9 a.m. onwards with a definite task to perform , something to do which stretches his capacity more than drinking tea , gossiping and writing letters , is enormous . |
| 2 | There : people said this and that about him , but no one knew how sensitive he was , how kind . |
| 3 | He could sense that she had travelled far as a vagrant and had seen much and that like him she was in some way returning home . |
| 4 | Walking towards the station , having promised to bring back with her all sorts of expensive food items Tina had requested from Selfridges ' Food Hall , Cecilia thought how much she liked living on her own and that at seventy-six she was too old to have Jasper and Bienvida running around her , fond of them as she was , not to mention Tina 's boyfriends and the odd hours she kept and her lying in bed till noon . |
| 5 | Alice questioned uneasily , conscious of the fact that this man belonged to a society whose conventions differed greatly from her own and that by questioning the moral issues , she sounded unworldly , unsophisticated . |