Example sentences of "[adv] that [pers pn] 's [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better that it 's used to revamp the old chestnut about ‘ how many electricians does it take to change a lightbulb ? ’ in the form of ‘ how many reissues does it take to relaunch a band 's career ? ’ |
| 2 | Well why would he want to tell him all his failures , especially that he 's viewing Nick as an opponent . |
| 3 | Especially that it 's headed by Mrs Grigorovich , Natalya Bessmertnova . |
| 4 | Yeah , I think obviously , Norman has put down that he 's gon na produce quite a lot of cross-section , I think that 's a valid point I think we had assumed , perhaps incorrectly , that the ground was gon na be relatively level . |
| 5 | So that he 's getting |
| 6 | Hello there man , of course I 'm awake , I 'm eating my tea , ha you 're wrong , Russell 's organizing his night so that he 's gon na pick you up half eight quarter to nine okay well I , I ai n't had a shower or anything yet , I mean er everything 's organized I organized it all for picking you up eight quarter to nine , bless you , what 's your number ? |
| 7 | Er er I get er er I think he 's being very clever here so that he 's gon na , if any peasants were to read this which is debatable but |
| 8 | Oh I mean many of them were taken out of a book which had in the front price five and sixpence so a so I think that went very well and er I mean Jack was much encouraged by it so much so that he 's going to actually offer to do it for another organisation that he 's connected with |
| 9 | So with this this stone could be built in so that it 's facing the road could n't it ? |
| 10 | rotates a vector so that it 's pointing in completely the opposite |
| 11 | Not only that she 's bringing them back to my house , you know what I mean ? |
| 12 | ‘ Only that he 's living with his stepmother who 's younger than he is . |
| 13 | ‘ He just never lets on that he 's done any fitness work ’ , says one . |
| 14 | Well it , when the snow get 's on that it 's gon na break it . |
| 15 | It 's not just that he 's seen so much more life . |
| 16 | And she said , no it was just that he 's talking of renting his house erm and I know of someone who wants to rent one . |
| 17 | Just that he 's seemed a bit out of sorts this past few days . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It 's just that he 's suffering from a temporary loss of memory of our previous days — and nights — together . ’ |
| 19 | It 's just that he 's coming for it at three so if I get my camera I want it before three . |
| 20 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 21 | It 's just that it 's running out rather quickly , |
| 22 | mind you , not that he 's giving any secrets away , it 's been |
| 23 | It 's not that she 's said , ‘ No , you must n't wear make-up ’ , but all my friends do , and sometimes I feel strange because I have n't got any . |
| 24 | Not that she 's complaining about that , of course . ’ |
| 25 | Not that she 's sleeping at Clare 's are we ? |
| 26 | I can see already that she 's changed you . ’ |
| 27 | Our Nancy might be only seventeen , but she 's already a full-growed woman to look at , and I know she 'd be pleased to be 'is wife , 'e 'd only 'ave to ask 'er , except 'e did say once that 'e 's waitin' a while before 'e gets married . |
| 28 | Well leaning on it like that it 's putting pressure on it . |
| 29 | He goes well , you know , we erm , well , do n't ask okay , but just do n't touch him , okay , cos he 's dangerous just do n't , anyway the man gets drunk , he 's going he 's going like that he 's excuse me , you 're interrupting my joke . |
| 30 | I said , I said , if we do get going , and we do start finding out that it 's going alright , he 'll turn that , into like er , shop er , blasting shop . |