Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The creative use of leisure ’ sociologists called it and it worried them badly that fret-work and bird-watching might be all there was to fulfil people after pressing the buttons at the fully-automatic , atom-powered , closed-circuit-TV-monitored , computer-directed plant for a couple of four-hour shifts a week . |
| 2 | Yeah that 's a big and my and that stuck out the bucket like that , well going over the top we had a hood over the top tumbler to stop the flashing , so my father stopped , thinking that was a bit of wood and were gon na break the top of the tumbler , so he stop and out and scrubbed it and found that was this bone and I think if my memory serve me right that 's in the , the Fleet Museum now . |
| 3 | Or I could just stuff them down that wrinkled old gullet . |
| 4 | She , she did n't mind because she 's winking and I thought ah is n't that nice of her , it is really because she organised it all and she do n't know me so that was very kind of her did n't you think so Bet ? |
| 5 | I told them only that , after attending Lowood school , I became a governess in a wealthy family , where an unfortunate event , not in any way my fault , caused me to run away . |
| 6 | Yeah , but then you 've got to put the containers inside them so that 's another few quid , yeah , right , wait and see what he says . |
| 7 | Rodney Lines , editor of the Newsletter , and Baron Wright taught me much that was new to me about a favourite poet . |
| 8 | Anyway , I 'm goin' fer a job now , but I tell yer , Annie , if they turn me down that 's me lot . |
| 9 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 10 | I 'm not letting the bugger get me down that 's for sure . |
| 11 | Yeah I so that does n't count . |
| 12 | ‘ I less that will do , ’ Daffodil said , shrugging off someone else 's problem . |
| 13 | Oh , oh I did n't know that , I , I perhaps that was , perhaps that was |
| 14 | Do n't worry I just that |
| 15 | But do I just that is I do n't think it makes any bloody difference , as far as that is . |
| 16 | I know I just that election , you know in eighty seven |
| 17 | You 're going that way Michael , put yours up that way one . |
| 18 | At times Tim 's speed and intelligence is quite breathtaking and I sure that with a couple of years experience he will become a very fine craftsman . |
| 19 | I though that about the poll tax anyhow . |
| 20 | I though that |
| 21 | And they have been very much but I though that Swatch cost that much no there are |
| 22 | So I , I , I mean I , I Well that 's where the propaganda comes in is n't it ? |
| 23 | If I can understand people after twenty five thirty years in sales and marketing listening to people on the phone and knowing how important it is in this then I then that 's fine . |
| 24 | Of course it 's Yours Truly that 's got to dust the whole kit and caboodle ! |
| 25 | Twenty-four hours , Zack , give me just that … ’ |
| 26 | Sporting teams , you all look a sporting bunch to me specially that chubby chap there in the middle er I 've got contacts with not only all the local football , rugby , cricket clubs etcetera , but also the teams that sort of how do I put this represent people in er the city on , on a , a good sporting level , I E Mosely Rugby Club , Aston Villa Football Club , so whatever your standard is in any sport come and see me and I shall sort out exactly what you want . |
| 27 | They took me home that night in Gillian 's rebarbatively quotidian motor-car . |
| 28 | ‘ He drove me home that night . |
| 29 | ‘ I was going to propose to you properly that weekend , ’ he went on after a long , blissful interval . |
| 30 | ‘ Well ! ’ he said , ‘ I hope you 'll forgive me for having knocked you down that day . ’ |