Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb base] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I would like to close by saying that erm I just thought it would be just a nice idea that I would invite any of you members of the Council and wives who have n't got anything else to do on Christmas morning , if you fancy popping up to my house for a glass of sherry or whatever , just on a casual basis as a little thank you for what you 've done over the erm over the last twelve months , I extend that invitation to you all and District Councillors if they wish to come and I would like to say , on behalf of the Council , that I hope you all have a , this is the last full meeting , and to everybody here I hope you have a very nice happy peaceful Christmas and I hope we all go into the new year with renewed vigour . |
| 2 | The monitoring process , until eventually I work out that I get my two sales . |
| 3 | ‘ I would not for a moment have it supposed that I mean anything derogatory to Dr. Yeats … but human nature is fallible . |
| 4 | If I had , if I had room I 'd have nothing , toaster and that I hate it all |
| 5 | I never forget a face — ( He looks into the SPY 's face ) … not that I know yours that is . |
| 6 | But er I ca n't say that I know anything more about it actually . |
| 7 | I do n't know that I like it all that much . |
| 8 | That I break his miserable china duck . |
| 9 | It is with some trepidation that I mention our feathered friends — LARUS CANUS — the common gull . |
| 10 | Let's just say that I deem it wiser to get a head start on them . ’ |
| 11 | The staff all know what 's got to be done and they go off and do it ; it 's just when jobs are different that I give them any guidance . |
| 12 | It would have been so easy and commonplace to move into some bushes ; but my partner insisted that I light my second candle . |
| 13 | And these words , that I command thee this day , shall be upon thy heart ; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children , and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house , and when thou walkest by the way , and when thou liest down , and when thou riseth up . |
| 14 | It is as a stranger that I greet my own self , and see it as an unknown fellow traveller through time . |
| 15 | I get fan mail , I even get marriage proposals , and I have to confess that I love it all and appreciate it , too . |
| 16 | Joan while I remember in my car I 've got some things that I want your professional advice about . |
| 17 | They also insisted that I sue their front door — and not my own — so that people had to go through their gallery . |
| 18 | ‘ Would you prefer that I do what some man should have done years ago ? |
| 19 | In any case , my point is that it was during the course of this interview , when I raised the question of the difficulty of recruiting suitable staff in these times , that Mr Farraday , after a moment 's reflection , made his request of me ; that I do my best to draw up a staff plan — ‘ some sort of servants ' rota ’ as he put it — by which this house might be run on the present staff of four — that is to say , Mrs Clements , the two young girls , and myself . |
| 20 | The right hon. Gentleman said : ’ That is a firm commitment , costed and clear that I pledge our Labour Government will carry out . ’ |
| 21 | She changed my entire perspective of the infection and it is to her , I believe , that I owe my current good health . |
| 22 | He rubbed at his jaw and the back of his neck with the towel and said , ‘ I 'm not drunk , I was dog-tired , not that I owe you any explanation . |
| 23 | Well , I have been following this mailing list and have yet to post a message , but am sad to see that it is under these circumstances that I post my first … |
| 24 | His correspondent had lately left the academic world for military service ; and with his own bookish situation , so detrimental to " independent thought " , Nietzsche contrasted and , in part , commended his friend 's active life : " … not that I applaud your present profession as such , bud only insofar as it is the negation of your previous life … |
| 25 | I ca n't put it easily out of my mind , and the gentle tone nags at me , so that I find myself worrying , asking my friends in a roundabout way : by the way , what do you weigh ? |
| 26 | It is with much concern that I find myself unable to comply with a request from you and Mr. Browne , but indeed you pay me too great a compliment in supposing me capable of writing upon any subject that is proposed to me . |
| 27 | ‘ Not that I find it easy to deny what everyone else in Europe apparently finds truthful . |
| 28 | There are so many ‘ explanations ’ that I find it helpful to subdivide them into categories . |
| 29 | You are angry , vulnerable , gentle , fierce , with such bewildering speed that I find it fascinating . |
| 30 | Although hard to buy beyond specialist shops , kaffir lime leaf offers such a depth of flavour that I find it hard not to reach for it whenever I cook . |