Example sentences of "that [pron] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But the important thing was that I just wanted to be free . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then there was this thing that I constantly talked to the press . |
| 6 | I think perhaps that I actually needed to be able to think the worst of you , however personally unpalatable that worst was to me , as some sort of a defence , so that I could despise you even if it meant despising myself as well . |
| 7 | Not that I ever wanted to . |
| 8 | The funny thing is that I never expected to be an artist . |
| 9 | She dedicated her song to all the boys who had really regretted doing it , all the men who have ever said , naming no names , it took ten years of my life , and now I can truly say that I never want to even talk to him again , never to see him . |
| 10 | Another poem that I have dated in the typescript ‘ December , 1957 , Plaza de Anaya , Salamanca ’ , is one I was able to write for myself , and that I never showed to Dana . |
| 11 | It would not be whimsical to suggest that I still go to Arsenal now because of what Swindon did to me then : like a gambler who keeps playing because it is the only way to win back what he has lost , I still feel , somewhere in me , that I am owed for what Ian Ure and Jon Sammels and Bobby Gould put me through that afternoon . |
| 12 | The reason I want to learn ISL is that I often go to Dublin and feel ashamed of my inability to communicate . |
| 13 | Nozick wants to show us that we can suppose this ; but I am not sure that I really want to ( or ought to want to ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Please take notice that I sometimes need to be the real me ’ , is what she seems to be really saying through the way she 's portrayed herself . ’ |
| 15 | Most writers of whatever kind know what it is to write and to discover in the process that someone else seems to be standing by . |
| 16 | Clarissa pointed out that nobody else seemed to be making a fuss . |
| 17 | Part of the secret of any success we 've had so far can be found in the fact that nobody really expected to us . |
| 18 | The long-established Manx cat is certainly as abnormal as any of them , with its strangely abbreviated backbone and the problems this causes , but its presence at cat shows was accepted so long ago that nobody now objects to its inclusion . |
| 19 | First , she contended that her husband put her under undue pressure to sign and that she finally succumbed to the pressure . |
| 20 | It was not until the next to last day of the visit that she finally formulated to herself her secret desire , which was to see Montmartre at night . |
| 21 | ‘ She 's been so conditioned by her husband that she instinctively kowtows to any man who says ‘ boo ’ to her . ’ |
| 22 | Like the other women , Barbara Lipscombe was asked if she had ‘ particular ways of doing things ’ that she regularly kept to in housework : |
| 23 | Perhaps it was more that she just wanted to be somewhere else . |
| 24 | It was shortly after this that her mother approached her and in a voice that she rarely used to her , she said , ‘ Agnes , I … |
| 25 | She could remember his amazement on learning what she did to earn her living ; there had even been a hint of surprise that she actually needed to . |
| 26 | When he released her it was with such force that she almost fell to the floor . |
| 27 | She was pipped by reluctant newcomer Jane Lester of Basildon Savacentre who was so doubtful of her abilities that she virtually had to be carried up to the oche . |
| 28 | We knew she would n't go near the road because she was so frightened of people and movement that she always stuck to the security and space of the golf course . |
| 29 | That she now belonged to the man lying with her . |
| 30 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |