Example sentences of "on [pers pn] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I began to become very worried about it and it just happened by chance that one Friday morning I heard a programme on Radio Brighton , and it was Doctor Wisbey speaking about dyslexia , and it dawned on me immediately that my son was dyslexia . |
| 2 | It 's just dawning on me now that I 'm not rea I mean you know having had a conversation , proper conversation with my dad this weekend just me |
| 3 | ‘ And keep an eye on me so that I wo n't escape , ’ she bit out before biting into her toast . |
| 4 | The tiles have grooves and ridges on them so that they do not fall out . |
| 5 | Note that this claim would not be undermined by showing that infants ‘ mindlessly ’ master the communicative content of structured sentences before it dawns on them gradually that assertions express beliefs and that deceit is possible . |
| 6 | It usually dawns on you slowly that all is not as it would appear on the surface . |
| 7 | We need to know the effect the injury has had on you so that we can determine what type of medical evidence we need and when . |
| 8 | She twirled slowly , feeling his eyes on her so that it was as though she was receiving an injection of adrenalin . |
| 9 | In another sexual adventure , Is My Palm Read ? , a palm-reader turns out the lights on her so that he can leer through her see-through skirt and blouse . |
| 10 | His heart was set on her so that he could never relax — this love was so strong . |
| 11 | She had turned on him again that remarkable glance in which for the first time he had detected to his discomfiture a brief flash of intelligence and of calculation . |
| 12 | Very few people at all would ever ever ever ever say that and we look at the , when we look at the , the erm format you 'll find called it a sadist because chains on him from because on him so that we . |
| 13 | Philip had n't set eyes on him before that he was aware of . |
| 14 | Although he can not escape from the linearity of language ( see 7.2 , 7.5.3 ) , James does the next best thing , which is to fasten our attention initially on the most immediate feature of Pemberton 's predicament : his uncomfortable sense of indecision , and then to expatiate on it so that by the time we have threaded our way through two paragraphs , we have built up a sensitive grasp of the coexisting intricacies and ironies of that predicament ( the ironies will concern us in section C below ) . |
| 15 | A state of this task consists of a chess board , with up to eight pieces on it so that no two pieces are on a common row or file or diagonal . |
| 16 | It was important to be at once on it so that she could n't be followed . |
| 17 | For with ‘ grossing up ’ he is deemed to have given away both the gift and the tax on it so that his total giving reaches quickly to astronomic heights . |
| 18 | You you keep your eye on it so that when your tra tram programme comes on we can watch it . |
| 19 | Well leaning on it like that it 's putting pressure on it . |