Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time that I heard that argument so brazenly presented was by Mr. Neville Chamberlain 's spokesman before the war . |
| 2 | The L N E R and L M S. And er I could see then that I knew that superintendent in the private days of the railways . |
| 3 | Oh I did n't notice that I saw that thing in the car but I did n't notice a bracket . |
| 4 | you know the big spread that I saw that time |
| 5 | Then that I got that book back when I became a full time official it was still in the still in the office . |
| 6 | It 's just that I hate that expression , that 's all . ’ |
| 7 | I ca n't say that I hate that shop , it stinks . |
| 8 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 9 | I , , be having been elected to the office of Vice Chair , declare that I take that office upon myself and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it according to the best of my judgement and ability . |
| 10 | I confess that I felt that way at the time : the track was , despite the massive pile-up , clear . |
| 11 | I used to tell myself that it was because I wanted so much to believe it that I felt that way . |
| 12 | It must have been for myself as much as any other that I issued that warning : It might be all too easy to take a wrong path ! |
| 13 | And that I say that picture has appeared on everything , even on china , I think you can buy some at erm ca n't you even with that on it . |
| 14 | It is for this reason therefore that I think that sector six is more likely to threaten coalescence with existing communities than sectors one or two . |
| 15 | The only point is that I want that foreigner not to undersell my labour and I want him to be as competent to do the work as well as I would do it myself . |
| 16 | ‘ Look , ’ he said , deciding , for the moment , to keep a safe distance between them , ‘ I know you think I nicked them keys , that I did that kiosk and Madge 's house — ‘ |
| 17 | I 'm sorry I told ya and not only that I bought that camera the other week did n't I ? |
| 18 | The answer to the second is that I agree that Crime Concern , which enjoys all-party support in the House , does excellent work . |
| 19 | I was hoping they would find my curling stone , the one that I lost that night that Stewart Candless 's Metalurjic or whatever it was went into the loch . |
| 20 | I was n't aware that I gave that impression . |
| 21 | And she was so hooked in to him that she sensed that changing of mood almost immediately , and the façade split open a little wider . |
| 22 | It is possible to approximate the time that she left that job . |
| 23 | If you paid by cheque or credit card , again you would have some evidence that you spent that money . |
| 24 | what we 'll say to you is that you got that parcel on Tuesday |
| 25 | ‘ I knew from the very start that you sent that poison pen letter , Eleanor . |
| 26 | It means accepting , as one grieving woman put it , ‘ that there was something alive in you , and that you ended that process ’ . |
| 27 | ( Suggest that you read that poem as a background . ) |
| 28 | Erm , and he said , you know , I really resent the fact that you treat me like a village idiot , and I said , well you know , I 'm sorry that you feel that way , but my experience is of a group of fourteen people , erm , is that somebody always gets it wrong . |
| 29 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 30 | It 's not been for us to tell people what they should or should n't eat or do anything with , because the , in , in one respect that 's a nann nannying attitude from er , whether it 's the legislators saying we 're not going to approve the right legislation so that you have that information , but on the other hand by manufacturers and others saying you trust us . |