Example sentences of "that [pron] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Workshops are generally conducted with the participants sitting round in a circle of rocking chairs , which dismiss the idea of ‘ teachers and taught , ’ and stresses instead that everyone there brings knowledge to share . |
| 2 | Not that I ever drank beer . |
| 3 | Presumably because I was too young , and because life was so full in other ways that I never had time or any real reason to question it . |
| 4 | You will notice that I never include rice and pasta in the menus on the last day of the week to avoid causing an artificial weight gain — the last thing we want for tomorrow morning . |
| 5 | I have already stated that I discovered death at the age of six , and also that I never considered suicide as a possible course of action . |
| 6 | I once visited a pensioner in my village and mentioned that I occasionally like jam but never make it myself because I do not eat it often enough . |
| 7 | The day flew by so quickly that I hardly noticed evening stealing in on crimson wings . |
| 8 | The football stable must be cleansed and further breakages of the law regarding payments will be dealt with in such a severe manner that I now give warning that clubs and players must not expect the slightest leniency … |
| 9 | Apart from the ( very ) occasional disagreement with the teachers I think that I quite like school as I am here for my own benefit . |
| 10 | Your filter is fairly powerful and should be up to the job , but I must admit that I personally prefer undergravel filtration for almost all purposes . |
| 11 | A rifleman hit two men crouching near the Colonel , who later wrote that ‘ this was the first time in warfare that I truly felt fear . |
| 12 | We did n't take any action because I take the fact that someone else uses part of your song as a compliment really . |
| 13 | Take the Singles ' Society , which seemed to exist solely so that its smartly dressed president could chat up pretty girls ; or the Alice Society : ‘ You did n't sign up for that did you , ’ said one newcomer to his friend as they left . |
| 14 | Marje now admits that her carefully nurtured image has been torn apart by revelations from a new biography . |
| 15 | Knowing that there was nothing for it but to go and apologise and , if possible , explain that her regularly serviced car was misbehaving , Fabia had her hand on the door-handle when she realised that she had no need to move . |
| 16 | She almost ran from the room , as if afraid that her newly found resolve would melt away if she did not immediately put it into practice . |
| 17 | Early on , someone said to me that nobody really took AIDS seriously until someone they knew died through it and when the first ex-volunteer died , many of us felt the shock waves . |
| 18 | In the long run , Cabernet will probably improve Rioja , if only by persuading traditionalists to make better wines from Tempranillo , just to prove that nobody really needs Cabernet . |
| 19 | He took her virginity with care , giving her so much ecstatic joy in the taking that she scarcely noticed pain . |
| 20 | ACTRESS Siobhan Redmond has revealed that she nearly quit showbusiness to run a mobile massage parlour . |
| 21 | ACTRESS Siobhan Redmond has revealed that she nearly quit showbusiness to run a mobile massage parlour . |
| 22 | She felt guilty , but she could say with a clear conscience that her business was so demanding that she hardly had time to think of Northumberland although , in truth , as her successes and problems in Italy had increased , there seemed less and less reason to return to Nora . |
| 23 | She was so absorbed in the task that she hardly noticed time passing . |
| 24 | In place of these two extremes , we need to be like Mary , Jesus ' mother , who received the word within her , so that she actually gave birth to the Word of God . |
| 25 | He kissed her with suppressed violence , then let her go so abruptly that she almost lost balance . |
| 26 | Her passion leapt to meet his , and she clung to him , her mouth dragging on his in a meeting so inflamed that she almost lost consciousness as dizziness swept through her brain . |
| 27 | But Kay has admitted ( in her charming Ivy and Stevie ) that she sometimes had difficulty in deciphering her notes , and that Ivy was often mysterious and contradictious . |
| 28 | She was single-minded and uncompromising in her work , so that she sometimes provoked exasperation among her colleagues , a feeling immediately tempered by the admiration they felt . |
| 29 | As she approached , Clara thought that she still looked cross , but she could see that whatever annoyance was there was not directed against herself . |
| 30 | When she looked up the mountainside , as if searching for help there , I realized that she still had fear of me , little knowing the true state of affairs , and felt herself like an animal in a trap . |