Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] that [pron] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was when the laughter ceased altogether that one had to worry . |
| 2 | He realised suddenly that he had to go to the bathroom . |
| 3 | Leaving the clinic she realised suddenly that she wanted to go to her garden . |
| 4 | It was only as they drew nearer that he began to make out that it was the concrete skeleton of an unfinished three-storey duplex , its half-built walls , pillars and floors rising out of a sea of mud . |
| 5 | Shelley did n't mind , but it would have been polite to let her know beforehand that she had to run two clinics instead of one . |
| 6 | Senior union leaders acknowledge privately that they have to win a hearts-and-minds campaign among their members . |
| 7 | You 're nostalgic for childhood whilst it happens to you because the dreams show you the landscape you 're passing through , but you do n't know yet that you want to escape . |
| 8 | Eleanor came wearing a red suit , and he felt so turned on that he forgot to put the water in the teapot . |
| 9 | He was burrowing into responsibilities , looking for them almost , for they gave substance to that which bound Emily to him — and still the shock of jealousy pulsed occasionally making him shudder so that he blushed to seem to be shivering . |
| 10 | oh I came , came to several conclusions , erm , one , one of the problems that the article faced me with , if it had been a simple outburst , if , if the , the Daily Telegraph had simply taken an advert out as opposed to maybe editorials then I may of had less a problem , because the problem with editorials is that they are believed , companies adverts are n't believed , well they 're partially believed , but an editorial carries a lot more weight and therefore when it 's written like that it tends to strike home much harder , therefore that , my immediate thoughts were that if were going to react , if we were going to find a way of cantering the problems we felt this had created , then we would not have to follow any normal course of action , we simply could n't put an advert out because nobody would have believed it , we would have to look at it a different way of actually cantering and that 's part of the reason for the time taking to think it through . |
| 11 | But when she had asked if they could n't warm the place up a bit with some pretty colors , Dr. Briant had said sharply that they had to avoid confusing their color appreciation tests later , and she 'd have all the color she wanted then . |
| 12 | Hank decided that , in this instance , honesty was the only policy possible and had said frankly that he wanted to try to write a book . |
| 13 | She coldly snubbed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for years , and it was revealed recently that she failed to visit two cousins who had been committed to mental institutions . |
| 14 | But the 24-year-old admitted yesterday that he wants to share the scoring burden with his team-mates . |
| 15 | I then replied loftily that I wished to make ‘ a certain suggestion to him ’ . |
| 16 | I can see now that you had to test me a little . |
| 17 | The problem is that most of us are so busy rushing around that we fail to become aware of those feelings and to consider what they might be telling us . |
| 18 | It was understood that everybody became so frustrated occasionally that they tried to escape , but to desert and to fail was considered despicable in their eyes . |
| 19 | Turkish officials admitted openly that they hoped to deflect Iranian influence in the region by using television as a propaganda tool for Turkey . |
| 20 | I heard somewhere that he claimed to sleep with a different woman before every match . |
| 21 | It was in this atmosphere of craven piety that Lillian Hellman , the playwright who had carte blanche in Hollywood to write what pictures she liked , administered a cold douche to the nation 's conscience by stating unequivocally that she refused to inform on anybody else but herself . |
| 22 | I heard once that you wanted to conduct Shostakovich 's Sixth Symphony but you thought Mravinsky had done it so well you would n't touch it . |
| 23 | Camille herself — the Camille whom Camille was used to — merely noted exasperatedly that he seemed to have had plenty of time yesterday , sitting round in the cafe all morning . |
| 24 | It 's , it 's a band saw really that you want to put down |
| 25 | We all know therefore that everyone tries to get their own beliefs by methods that will maximise their chances of being true : like Pooh getting his belief about what 's in his honey pot by tasting it . |
| 26 | He points out that we need to distinguish between the contribution that research can make to policy and that which it can make to social work practice . |
| 27 | As for the second charge , that democracy , perhaps like British liberty in the nineteenth century , was parasitic upon empire , A.H.M. Jones points out that it continued to operate in the fourth century , after the loss of empire , and , indeed , was if anything more expensive then than before , since it was then that payment for attendance at the assembly was added to payment for other public duties . |
| 28 | But it points out that it has to depend on donations for its work ; and like the organisations rescuing the refugees , it is running out of money . |
| 29 | It turns out that we have to appeal in any case to something like a rational collective agency , directed towards avoiding recognized and agreed evils , and that already provides an adequate explanation — a fairly traditional one — of the incest prohibition . |
| 30 | It has been pointed out that you need to knit two straight rows after each transfer and , at first , glance , it may look as though you do n't knit the two rows after a plain arrow for this punchcard . |