Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Boniface wrote to other bishops , he had a way of invariably reminding them that Christian authority meant service . |
| 2 | Someone will reach for a tin of fish-paste only to be brought up short by another member of the party reminding them that fish-paste is unclean , while someone else may get as far as the checkout with a year 's supply of baked beans , when , across the crowded shelves of the supermarket , comes a voice reminding them of the danger they are facing . |
| 3 | You did n't need to hit me that hard . ’ |
| 4 | My mother had taught me that , just as she had taught me to change my underclothes daily and not blow my nose in public . |
| 5 | Coming home 's taught me that . |
| 6 | Cancer has taught me that life is n't a dress rehearsal , this is it and you only get the one chance . |
| 7 | Ackroyd put the signals to red , rang the station down the line to tell them that he had a problem and then rang the next station above to alert them that he still had a train in his section . |
| 8 | Erm , actually on reflection , having seen the bit of disaster that occurred because erm unfortunately Freda did n't get the phone call until early Christmas day morning off her daughter , to say that instead of them coming up to here to see them that something had happened in London , could they go down to her , so she was prepared to do us a half an hour at half past one and then she was going to drive to London ! |
| 9 | She had come north , summoned by a War Office telegram to see me that first time . |
| 10 | So I mean , John was right , she did come to see me that time . |
| 11 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , we the wise , to quote Erving Goffman ( 1963 ) are allowed increasing manpower to pursue the cannabis/hallucinogenic using folk devil and to present the incompetent and the inept from the hippie element to the courts and the public for their solace ; and to assure them that drug taking is being stamped out . |
| 13 | Sir George Askwith , the Board of Trade 's Chief Industrial Commissioner , quickly persuaded Devonport to meet Harry Gosling and Harry Orbell , an influential official of the London Dockers , who were representative of both the executive of the Transport Workers ' Federation and the workers ' side of the Port of London Authority and to assure them that existing agreements would be maintained . |
| 14 | you do n't want them that 's good erm , that 's a good win away from home . |
| 15 | To-day , the world 's great athletes in almost every sport have the opportunity to earn large sums of money as a result of their skill and dedication , and no-one begrudges them that , but the Olympians compete in the Olympic Games solely for the glory and the chance of winning a gold , silver , or bronze medal . |
| 16 | Always fascinates me that , a little person driving a big car . |
| 17 | Subtract them that way round . |
| 18 | The dank smell of the water was not unpleasant , and for years the scent of la Sologne that enveloped me that night would pierce my memory : a combination of stagnant water , slime , wild mushrooms , wispy dry grasses , sand and well-hung game . |
| 19 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 20 | ‘ Mrs McDougall asked me that , ’ I said . |
| 21 | ‘ Ernest asked me that . |
| 22 | ‘ You asked me that . |
| 23 | ‘ The police asked me that , too , and honestly , I just ca n't remember . |
| 24 | I am so glad that the hon. Member for Derby , North asked me that question — |
| 25 | The police asked me that as well . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm glad you asked me that . ’ |
| 27 | I , he asked me the one , you know , we were on about this morning , the only one we looked at , fifty miles an hour and he asked me that one and I knew it . |
| 28 | ‘ Just bring me that chip , Marco , ’ she said . |
| 29 | Erm Anthony Anthony got me that . |
| 30 | It had further taught them that bomb casualties in Protestant districts frequently included a substantial proportion of Roman Catholics . |