Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [adv] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mostly , I feel so inadequate that I think almost anyone could do the job better than I. I mean , Karen 's trained and Edna s had a lifetime s experience . |
| 2 | She thought she knew herself very well , but faced with God she realized that she knew virtually nothing . |
| 3 | When they did converse , she said little and mostly listened ; it had only recently struck Angelica that she knew almost nothing more about Alina now than she had at the end of that first day . |
| 4 | But , go back here , it 's interesting that you point out something I had n't really thought about , which is why I tend to use typefaces that are sort of garden variety — printer 's types , as opposed to the sweller Berthold revivals or whatever . |
| 5 | The resort itself is a tremendously friendly place , where you really get to feel that you know almost everybody by the end of the first week . |
| 6 | The everyday school uniform , now useless , meant that one had hardly anything to wear ! |
| 7 | The ceilings were so low that one wonders how anyone could get at the carding machines to clean them . |
| 8 | but if you can think of some way to say that and put it down so that we put down something like four sentences on paper and a few examples . |
| 9 | It is a staggering compliment to their historical reliability that we find almost nothing of the major concerns which engaged the primitive Church written back into the Gospels . |
| 10 | They have established , to their mutual relief , that they know absolutely nobody in common . |
| 11 | Not necessarily : ‘ I do n't think I meant that even the people who have no caveats attached implied that they knew absolutely everything in the box . |
| 12 | The head of each household , which includes people who are in charge of residential homes , hotels , etc. , is required by law to fill in the questionnaire on behalf of everybody in the household , or at least to ensure that they fill in one for themselves . |
| 13 | Chief among them , and born of the group 's increasing feeling that they stood far something , embattled against a hostile world , was their tendency not only to see merit where none existed ( in the poetry of Fox , for example ) , but actually to think that belonging to the group — which began at around this period to be known as the Inklings — was in itself a sort of merit . |
| 14 | At one extreme were those so inert , so withdrawn into themselves , that they gave out nothing to the young . |
| 15 | The one-room system encouraged children to be sexually precocious , so that they found out everything about physical matters from their home experience . |
| 16 | But the trouble with the picture is that it does absolutely nothing with its various prognostications except play the fool with them . |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman must also know that it depends how one selects one 's facts and which surveys one looks at . |
| 18 | While I suspect that it has absolutely nothing to do with tennis matters , ( although I will seek to justify its inclusion in this column in a moment ) , one thing I have never understood is why long haul flights in airlines are often so much cheaper than those for far shorter journeys . |
| 19 | Yet I knew a Wiltshire man who said that he burned hardly anything else ; and it was very fine , he said , when well seasoned . |
| 20 | Since he believed that he personified Iran , it was not surprising that he saw almost everything in terms of personal betrayal . |
| 21 | By the time Louise returned to the kitchen to tell him that his mother was ready to go home Constance felt that he knew absolutely everything about her , but had revealed nothing of himself . |
| 22 | The fact that he knew absolutely nothing about the airline business was neither here nor there . |
| 23 | You know he 'd far prefer to have the cheap workforce that you could tell exactly and appear to know what he 's talking about , whereas the older men knew that he knew absolutely nothing . |
| 24 | ‘ There are things in there — paintings — that he 'd sooner no-one saw ? ’ |
| 25 | It was only then that he found out something was wrong . |
| 26 | No did he say no did you say that he phoned up anyone else ? |