Example sentences of "that [pron] [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said that nothing so concentrates a man 's mind as the knowledge that he is to be hanged in the morning . |
| 2 | It seems to me that nothing really turns on the difference . |
| 3 | Please have an article on this situation , not in London , not in Manchester , but a small town where people believe , rightly or wrongly , that nothing ever happens . |
| 4 | You know that everyone here does the job of at least two people . |
| 5 | Erm , and that is the whole question of conflict about parental investment in general , and er , she put it very well and , and , and , and very clearly , and I 'm sure she understood it , but let's make sure that everyone else does . |
| 6 | ‘ My job means having to give up a lot of things that everyone else takes for granted in their life , and you 've always known that , Annabel , ’ Scott again reminded her . |
| 7 | Since she has pushed the decade for almost her entire career , one can only wonder what she 'll do now that everyone else has followed suit . |
| 8 | Anyway , Lesley-Jane jumped to the conclusion that everyone else has since jumped to — that you shot Micky — and screamed . |
| 9 | And I do n't care now that everyone else knows . |
| 10 | We all think that everyone else lives in fortresses , in fastnesses : behind moats , behind sheer walls studded with spikes and broken glass . |
| 11 | I think that everyone probably goes through fights with their parents during their early teens but I certainly did n't know what it was like to run away from home and to have constant dealings with the police and welfare organisations . |
| 12 | I felt once again like a child , like a child who walks into a room and is aware that everyone there knows something about him that he does not . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One has the sense that everyone now thinks well of Bakhtin , whether a Marxist like Terry Eagleton , a historical scholar such as Jerome J. McGann , or a practising novelist and critic of fiction , David Lodge . |
| 15 | He 'd once walked out , in a sixteen-year-old child 's sulk , on a family dinner-party , and his father had always chided him about it — it had become one of those family memories that everyone always laughs at , always shares . |
| 16 | Well I 'm afraid it 's now time for me to send one of those boring sending off messages that everyone usually skips straight past . |
| 17 | The normal interpretation of ( 165 ) does not imply that everyone actually pays his taxes : the sentence simply evokes a state of obligation in which every individual finds himself by virtue of the law . |
| 18 | It must not be assumed that everyone initially agrees about the implications . |
| 19 | Try and make sure that no-one else uses your works and dispose of used works safely or through your syringe exchange . |
| 20 | I have n't got anything that no-one else has . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You feel that no-one really cares , that if they can do that to you then they can do other things . |
| 22 | It could conceivably even damage the electronic information industry by overloading its customers with a glittering array of sophisticated new features that no-one actually wants or needs . |
| 23 | So , in effect , we turn adversity to profit : we parade our infirmities and at the same time make quite sure that someone else suffers also . |
| 24 | We did n't take any action because I take the fact that someone else uses part of your song as a compliment really . |
| 25 | An effective stress-reduction technique is one that works , not one that someone else says ought to work . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | If you leave your gear on stage , you may find that someone else has moved it for you , and they wo n't be as careful as you . |
| 28 | If you are the victim of a burglary , the value of the property that has been stolen might be large or small , but the emotional upset and the feeling that someone else has been in your home can live with you for a long time . |
| 29 | ‘ I hope my getting it does n't mean that someone else has been disappointed . |
| 30 | I did want to , once , yet … now that someone else has done it , I feel nothing but pity . |