Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb base] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | It is only after listening again to my tape-recording of our meeting that I hear him eventually say in his educated , upper-class Dublin accent : ‘ Well , over 90 per cent of people who get raped are not injured in that rape . ’ |
2 | True faith in God means that I distrust myself in order to trust in God . |
3 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
4 | Charles , her husband , jokes all the time about what I 'm wearing , insists that I join them for formal dinners late at night , and then teases me throughout them because I 've never eaten squid before , and I do n't know what haggis is made of . |
5 | This contrasts greatly with another professional publication that I receive which is stodgy and insists on corresponding via an employer 's address . |
6 | If I needed any proof that I bore you , that you do n't care about me — ’ |
7 | I recall vividly one member of the aristocracy who was in such a state about being interviewed on TV that he insisted that I help him go through a half bottle of whisky first . |
8 | One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour . |
9 | What happens when ‘ he ’ moves in and I ca n't work at all hours , ca n't eat when I like , ca n't take a bath any time I like , when he insists that I visit his relatives ? |
10 | Be pleased to tell them that I remember them with great kindness and great respect . |
11 | But in those rare flashes when one can shed the present self and all it is in command of I realise that there were really only two occasions when I did personally feel the times on my pulse in such a way that I remember them , and not what I have since reconstructed of them . |
12 | It was not so much by what Basil said that I remember him but by what he did . |
13 | However , during our visit to India he had been constantly with us , and in Jaipur I had experienced a gratifying sense of shared adventure ; but it was perhaps in the camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly . |
14 | I 'd like to say that I remember something about the rest of that walk but I do n't , only that it rained , then it rained some more , and when it got fed up with that , it rained again . |
15 | ‘ Trying to ensure that I remember you 're now my husband ? ’ she enquired sweetly . |
16 | The point of this is not the trivial name involved , but the fact that I remember it so clearly . |
17 | As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness . |
18 | I think it 's the nearest we 'll get to it , and it 's in the White Paper and it can be used in exactly the sense that I gather you would like it to be used , in the discussions we have on the results of the scrutiny , and that would be the starting point there . |
19 | But he said er , and I said that I gather you 're seeing Lynda the weekend if you do find anything perhaps you could pass it on to her . |
20 | It 's not so much that , it 's that I prefer my cooking to your cooking . |
21 | And the truth that I insist I have discovered about the animal world is that it is never , ever boring . |
22 | I thought to myself when it was erm , advertised on television , I thought I 'll tape that I bet I know well you 'll be interested in that . |
23 | And therefore it is only because I believe this particular phrase is quite literally to do with the very crux , the very cross , of our Christian understanding that I bring it before the general assembly . |
24 | ‘ It is unusual ’ , he wrote , ‘ for a bishop to confirm his own father — but it is as a great Nonconformist that I revere him . ’ |
25 | Certainly I can not deduce which goals to pursue from the facts to be faced ; but will it not be a causally necessary condition of obeying ‘ Face facts ’ that I let myself be moved , at least incipiently , in the direction in which the facing of the facts would cause me to move ? |
26 | To the extent that I let myself be moved spontaneously in and out of perceptual and emotional awareness , it is likely to be my own ends , and those of persons whom I love or hate , which determine most of my choices of ends . |
27 | I ca n't believe that I was really that desperate , that I let myself go that completely . |
28 | I can not paint it as beautifully as that , but it absorbs me so much that I let myself go , never thinking of a single rule … |
29 | ‘ I said I was subject to them , not that I let them rule me ! ’ |
30 | Sometimes I feel so lonely , so sick of my own thoughts , that I let him . |