Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you made everything into a joke , people thought that nothing mattered to you , that you took nothing seriously . |
| 2 | It seemed that nothing mattered to her now . |
| 3 | The management ref refused to talk all the time and after a while it just got depressing , the fact that nothing seemed to be happening . |
| 4 | 1991 , 27 , 145 ) that nothing seems to be known about Clara Taylor during the years 1921–26 , when she was headmistress of the Northampton School for Girls . |
| 5 | ‘ My friends are concerned that nothing seems to be happening . ’ |
| 6 | They want to see the elimination of the use of knives in crimes of violence , but their approach is that the law is adequate to deal with the problem and that nothing needs to be changed . |
| 7 | It is an issue that everyone relates to , and it has never been done . |
| 8 | No time is given to setting clear objectives that everyone subscribes to . |
| 9 | It seemed that everyone had to be classified according to height and weight so that they would compete against boys of roughly the same size in the school sports at the end of the year . |
| 10 | I think that everyone had to be rescued by a motor boat as we drifted helplessly around , vainly splashing at the water with these pieces of wood . |
| 11 | At team meetings anyone was welcome to have his say , thereby building cohesion and a feeling that everyone belonged to the unit . |
| 12 | Taking a summer holiday used to be regarded as a luxury that everyone owed to themselves . |
| 13 | In order to ensure that everyone keeps to the laws there are specific penalties , such as fines or imprisonment , for those found guilty of breaking the law . |
| 14 | This was just as well because the federal structure of the royal family means that everyone keeps to their own province . |
| 15 | There will be two sittings for tea and to avoid chaos we must ensure that everyone goes to tea at their allotted time . |
| 16 | This I now of course understand , that everyone has to be careful of any drug smugglers . |
| 17 | During his reign there were no murders , no wars , no robberies , and gold rings lay untouched in the open , so that everyone referred to his age as the Frótha-frith , the ‘ peace of Fróthi ’ . |
| 18 | Alexander said that everyone wants to be right but no one stops to think whether their idea of right is in fact right . |
| 19 | The natural justification of my choice between the fruit would be something like ‘ The peach looked delicious ’ , which conveys the full information that I expected to be responding in accord with ‘ Be aware ’ until the last trace of the flavour faded from my mouth . |
| 20 | In effect , all my mother 's female paternal kin are called by the same term that I apply to my ‘ mother ’ ; and all her male paternal kin are designated ‘ mother 's brother ’ without reference to their generational position . |
| 21 | If , for example , I call my mother' brother 's son by the same term that I apply to my mother 's brother , the implication is that I share a common relationship with both . |
| 22 | The alternative vision is the one that I subscribe to , and along with me , most historians in this country and in America , and indeed increasingly erm a young generation of German historians , and this is that things began to go wrong well before nineteen fourteen , and that the Germans in fact deliberately started the First World War as the Treaty of Versailles said they did , that nineteen eighteen was not therefore the beginning of the evil , but merely a hiccup in erm a German attempt to conquer Europe , erm as it were , a play with two acts , the first act being nineteen fourteen to eighteen , and then the second act being nineteen thirty-nine to forty-five , two attempts to dominate the continent of Europe by military force . |
| 23 | Axelrod had already begun to think in ESS terms , but I felt that this tendency was so important that I wrote to him suggesting that he should get in touch with W. D. Hamilton , who was then , though Axelrod did n't know it , in a different department of the same university , the University of Michigan . |
| 24 | Before I left , I expressed the hope that he could pay another visit to Oxford , though this time a purely private one , and I see that I wrote to him repeating this towards the end of term — the final term — because on 17 June he replied to my home address : |
| 25 | ‘ And ‘ t was not for the hand of a child that I wrote to your father a year later . ’ |
| 26 | You will recall that I wrote to you in June requesting that this work be carried out , and I was given a job number ( which I do not have to hand ) , but no date for the work to be done . |
| 27 | It was Joan who told me of her death , and it was probably then that I wrote to your father and we started to exchange Christmas cards . |
| 28 | With hindsight , it was inevitable my application to continue full-time study would be refused , for in their eyes I had wandered long enough in the margins and so my hierarchy now ordered that I return to the basics of uniform police duties . |
| 29 | When I refused him , he reluctantly — on the evidence of my bank account — wrote me out permission for four weeks , with the proviso that I return to his office every four weeks … . |
| 30 | It is against that background that I return to the conclusion of the majority of the Court of Appeal that the mere fact that Wickes might be able to advance such an argument founded upon article 30 , which was at least not a groundless argument , compelled the Court of Appeal to require an undertaking in damages from the council . |