Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think you 'll have to , ’ said Fenella , who found the idea completely appalling , but who was trying to be practical and sensible and make it sound safe for them to go so that they could get Nuadu . |
| 2 | The cause had to be lack of food , the mints I 'd had earlier had obviously worn off , but , soft-hearted fool that I am , I was trying to wait so that me and the invalid could sit and break bread together . |
| 3 | It will be videoed , to se you 'll make two applications within that small group session and a second will be videoed but only for you to see so that you can take it away and try and learn from er seeing yourself on video . |
| 4 | If they have to shoot to kill so that their children live , they will . |
| 5 | Australia have shown you have to lose so that you can eventually win . |
| 6 | It was a reminder of the early days of European seamanship , when captains discouraged their crews from learning how to swim so that they were more likely to sink with their ship than abandon their posts and struggle for shore . |
| 7 | It is better for both partners to attend so that they can discuss the issue and fully appreciate its implications . |
| 8 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 9 | He and she were similar but he had a natural goodness which she lacked , and she did not want to claim aloud that she understood him because that , in itself , would lead to misunderstanding . |
| 10 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 11 | I , I do n't often agree with Jim about anything , but I really do agree with him about this , that there has to be some clear guidelines , I think , as to how these are fixed , they are not going be have the potential of being very unfair to people because people operate in different ways in different areas and I would suggest that it would be a good idea if this community were to ask for erm guidelines to be drafted for this committee to agree so that there is a more even fair , laid down procedure for dealing with the cases coming before the panel . |
| 12 | It had been pulling the small cart through backstreets for years now and seemed to know instinctively that it would probably be required to stop at any moment , so there was no point in hurrying . |
| 13 | If rights are being infringed the Purchaser will need to know so that it can restructure the Business to avoid further infringements . |
| 14 | He wanted the days to pass so that he could be back at Ravenswood School , safe in the dining-hall and his classroom . |
| 15 | The hound had been given something of Sir Henry 's to smell so that it would pick up his scent and follow him . |
| 16 | For two people who both were always in control , this was something of a miracle — to let go of control completely — to trust enough that they were both hurled into the abyss of pure sensation , pure feeling . |
| 17 | On Monday morning he drove the car to work so that he could show his colleagues the slightly dented bumper . |
| 18 | It was only when the intrepid explorers climbed into their rowing boats to come ashore that they really clocked what was going on . |
| 19 | I have known couples choose to have no children and be very happy with their choice ; but the moment they have changed their minds , only to discover finally that one or other of them is infertile , life instantly fills with despair coupled with a single-minded commitment to prove that they can do it . |
| 20 | Where roads are crossed , raised crossings are provided , with ramps from the road up to the cycle-street 's level and markings to indicate clearly that it is crossing cars that must give way . |
| 21 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 22 | He agreed to an impromptu reading in the evening only to find later that he would not be paid for it . |
| 23 | He went to the youth 's ‘ assistance , ’ only to find later that he had assaulted a policeman who had seen the youth committing an offence . |
| 24 | She put her name forward to the chairman of the local party only to find later that he had approached her father to get his consent then double-checked by asking her husband for his permission too . |
| 25 | A little to the north of it , I was delighted to discover , is a monastery by the name of Belloc , as if in honour of the English Catholic writer and Pyrenean devotee , Hilaire Belloc ( I was gratified to find later that there is at least one other Belloc or Bellocq in the Pyrenees ) . |
| 26 | He was on good terms with Marcus , content to know both that they would talk again , and that it was impossible to do so at the moment . |
| 27 | ‘ What does it take to convince you ? ’ she demanded sharply over rising despair , wondering why she was even bothering to try now that their affair was in its death throes . |
| 28 | Rosalind would have to know now that she had n't posted the letter ! |
| 29 | Just to know that he was there could bring a smile to the face and to know now that he was n't brought an ineffable sadness to them all . |
| 30 | ‘ It would greatly help the case for the chapter if he were to indicate now that his party supported the Maastricht Treaty . ’ |