Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [that] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 2 | If hon. Members who are called before 7 o'clock keep broadly to the time limit , it may be possible , in the interests of the whole House , for the occupant of the Chair to relax that limit later in the debate . |
| 3 | you see , he , he he can he cancelled cos his name came up and then he cancelled and he never heard anything and went a bit er we told him about Doreen , he said , oh I better go down and see what 's happened er he went down and then about three minutes later he got this erm card yes er , this week to say that come in , but , before you come in ring to see if there 's a bed . |
| 4 | It was one of the hardest battles of her life to drop that remark lightly into the charged atmosphere between them . |
| 5 | People who give up cigarettes very commonly report explicit ( and guilty ) dreams about smoking in the first few weeks , even though there is every reason to believe that sleep actually becomes less disturbed on withdrawal from nicotine . |
| 6 | It is our duty to lighten that load as much as possible . ’ |
| 7 | It is only when all the options have been considered , all the ideas have been exchanged and the husband still considers his plan to be more appropriate that both he and his partner understand he has the responsibility to follow that plan prayerfully . |