Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [prep] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE OXFORD BOOK OF APHORISMS ed by John Gross Oxford , £6.99 APHORISMS in the post-Johnsonian sense of ‘ a short pithy statement containing a truth of general import ’ are verbal successes that everyone strives for and few achieve , as Thoreau said , and John Gross here quotes , ‘ A perfectly healthy sentence is extremely rare . ’ |
| 2 | Erm I 'm not gon na mention that sort of little village in the north that I come from but on page twelve I do notice that thousand pounds . |
| 3 | and there is so many people smoking where , in the pubs that I go to and I do n't have it cos I think it looks disgusting I come here and because we go around in like threes and it 's , you know , |
| 4 | I mean , I think it 's terrible and , and I mean , if Mr Lilley himself went into some of the houses that I go into and see the the existence that they live , because that 's all it is , you know , it 's just an existence . |
| 5 | That 's about the only people that I know of and then , cos later years I would say that they used to cart so much into the erm , into the other farms round here . |
| 6 | Elstree is not able to take all the aviation business that 's been displaced for weeks that I know of and , and for Hatfield I 've been notified by two people who are at present at Hatfield , one of whom is going to move to Stansted . |
| 7 | Mostly my father just gives me the money that I ask for and lets me get what I want for myself . |
| 8 | When you say that , there 's immediately a flood of records that I think about that are all so unbelievably unrelated to one another … ’ |
| 9 | His column in the Angling Times was the first thing that I turned to and what a mine of information . |
| 10 | Buyer 's guide tells you that I work for and , and that I 'm authorized to discuss 's products only . |
| 11 | Er well I keep friendly with the people that I work beside but not outside the work . |
| 12 | There 's lots of new plays being written that I look at and say ‘ Oh yes — there 's lots of opportunities there ’ . |
| 13 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 14 | Rokeya 's flat was so precisely as Lee remembered it that she felt as if no time had passed between the last time she had been inside it and the present day . |
| 15 | The relief of escaping from his company was so intense that she felt as if she 'd been wired up to an electric charge for the last few hours and someone had finally taken pity on her and turned off the power . |
| 16 | That being so , he was a joy to walk — which made it odd that she felt as if something was missing . |
| 17 | Lady Eden once remarked that she felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through her drawing room . |
| 18 | And she was so relieved to be out of that place that she ran after and even overtook him . |
| 19 | The bikini is tiny , three triangles of cotton crochet , and her ribs protrude so much that she looks as if she is made of corrugated paper . |
| 20 | ‘ You remarked that she looks as if she were asleep . |
| 21 | The ballerina here is cleverly perched on a matchbox so that she looks as if she is standing up , but you might find it easier to omit her feet and just stand her flat on the cake board . |
| 22 | iron , very important , you know you ca n't there 's ca n't be a house in the country that you go into and not find something made of iron . |
| 23 | As a practical measure , keep a full record of all jobs that you apply for and the responses that you receive to show that you have not simply sat back and waited for the money to roll in . |
| 24 | But , there 's the the main , er , hotel that you book into and you come away from there to the dining area and erm and the reception |
| 25 | Was it what was the differences that you noticed between and ? |
| 26 | Oh so and was it all sort of erm erm society do 's that you went to and cocktails and things like |
| 27 | It is , therefore , vital that you stretch before and after every run and also on the days when you do n't run . |
| 28 | Now is n't this a the sort of problem that you run into if you try and impose aid from outside ? |
| 29 | that you worrying about and it me means a bit more work for us |
| 30 | That 's our job , so you have to appreciate that that 's the job of a journalist , to enquire what is the , the worst and the best aspects of any , of any job , of any , of any interview , and so you really have to do it , and in the sense that you have to if you , you probably have to go back to square one and do maximum research on what you 're being asked about , so , therefore you have more confidence in precising down what your answer is . |