Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me that nothing really turns on the difference . |
| 2 | But perhaps what mattered at eighty was habit , the body no longer interested in sex , the mind no longer interested in speculation , the smaller things in life mattering more than the large and , in the end , the slow realization that nothing really mattered at all . |
| 3 | His main principle with regard to the past was that nothing once given to God or the saints could be restored to the kingdom of this world without injustice . |
| 4 | ( However we should still heed Mr Castro 's warning that nothing now happening in Europe is going to help the desperate problems of the Third World . |
| 5 | ‘ My job means having to give up a lot of things that everyone else takes for granted in their life , and you 've always known that , Annabel , ’ Scott again reminded her . |
| 6 | We all think that everyone else lives in fortresses , in fastnesses : behind moats , behind sheer walls studded with spikes and broken glass . |
| 7 | We are determined that everyone lawfully settled in this country should enjoy the full range of opportunities in our society . |
| 8 | I think that everyone probably goes through fights with their parents during their early teens but I certainly did n't know what it was like to run away from home and to have constant dealings with the police and welfare organisations . |
| 9 | He 'd once walked out , in a sixteen-year-old child 's sulk , on a family dinner-party , and his father had always chided him about it — it had become one of those family memories that everyone always laughs at , always shares . |
| 10 | It must not be assumed that everyone initially agrees about the implications . |
| 11 | The request that you have done me the honour to make , to receive the record of my voice , is one that I cheerfully comply with so far as lies in my power ; though I lament to say that the voice which I transmit to you is only the relic of an organ the employment of which has been overstrained . |
| 12 | Nothing that I later ate in a restaurant was as good as our dinner , the finale being a ‘ tender coconut ’ pudding , a dish I had never eaten anywhere in the tropics . |
| 13 | He used some such expression in the text of an unpublished essay that I later found at Harvard . |
| 14 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 15 | Er so what I did was something a bit simpler than that I just went through the memorandum and and ticked off what I regarded as restrictive statements as against positive ones . |
| 16 | But the important thing was that I just wanted to be free . ’ |
| 17 | No , I do n't want to do that I just said to her , I said you know , you can sort of erm ask Brenda she said I 'm doing that I 'm not on christmas day , would you ? |
| 18 | The things I said may have been unjustified , and the fact that I just happened to be bloody tired and bad-tempered was no excuse . |
| 19 | This is my do it yourself manual , that I just learned by trial and error . |
| 20 | I was so astonished by the sudden question that I just gaped at him . |
| 21 | This seemed to me a poor reason for making the announcement and I told him that I strongly disapproved of his breach of trust . |
| 22 | The rod that I eventually settled with was made from an AFTM 10 reservoir fly rod blank , after an interesting morning inspecting blanks at the Horizon factory at Redditch . |
| 23 | There is a misunderstanding abroad that I also suffer from this unpleasant ailment . |
| 24 | Now the relevant point about briefing this is a you 've mentioned Glasgow and Birmingham that I already knew about , that we 're tendering against . |
| 25 | you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem . |
| 26 | Nor that I thereby hope for immortality : |
| 27 | There were plenty of filing cabinets , with half-full bottles , and an empty water cooler that I evidently kept as an excuse to have a tower of paper cups . |
| 28 | I mused on Toby 's story as I walked towards the clubhouse and so intent was I on my thoughts that I nearly knocked over Sally Drayton as I passed the PGA hut . |
| 29 | It happened so fast and so drastically that I nearly slid after him , managing only instinctively to pivot on one foot and throw myself headlong back onto the boards still remaining solid behind the hole . |
| 30 | The bolt was on the door and the top was off the bottle of Old Bedwetter that I generally reserve for moments such as these . |