Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nobody down here seems to know that she died . |
| 2 | There could hardly be a better reminder of what they were up against : a regent in Scotland with whom they were now at war , but whose political skills they recognized , and whom they regarded with respect , acting for their sovereign in France who so far failed to rule that she got a foreign monarch to tell them off . |
| 3 | She never again wanted to feel that someone else could send her to heaven or to hell . |
| 4 | But as historians they were more concerned with the past than the present , so they only gradually came to realize that the two were in many ways inseparable : both that remembering itself could be a help to the present lives of those telling their story , and also that the memory could be profoundly shaped by subsequent experience and this needed to be known to interpret it more effectively . |
| 5 | This is because when people try to translate an APR into what a loan will actually cost them they generally still seem to assume that an APR of , say , 10 per cent on a $100 loan would mean a credit cost of $10 — regardless of the period of the loan . |
| 6 | They also generally have to establish that they understand some of the unspoken rules relating to public participation : that they do n't embarrass their sponsors by the use of direct tactics or indiscreet communications with the press or unseemly behaviour in committee situations . |
| 7 | But because they now genuinely appear to believe that we will swallow absolutely anything . |
| 8 | The EC has ruled against unfair dismissal of pregnant women — they no longer have to claim that they were treated more harshly than a sick man . |
| 9 | Is it not enough to have to endure that when one is alive ? ’ |