Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See that no-one gets any further than the hall . |
| 2 | I 'm taking steps to make sure that I last as long as possible . |
| 3 | His way of praising me was to say that I wrote as naturally as a hen laying eggs , or to remark , after he had destroyed a work with his criticisms , ‘ Everything I have not marked seems to me either good or excellent . |
| 4 | not that I perceived any longer if the had n't gone . |
| 5 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 6 | He remarked that I looked neither well nor happy . |
| 7 | I suspect , then , that I paused rather abruptly and looked a little awkward . |
| 8 | I was so physically tired that I slept as soundly as the corpses outside the window but , unlike them , awoke refreshed and went downstairs to a good breakfast . |
| 9 | Ted might decide he does n't like me any more , that I laugh too loudly or drink too much of his beer , and then we 'd have to get a tent . |
| 10 | It turns out that fragments of each of my three files are dotted around , interleaved with each other and with fragments of old , dead files that I erased long ago and had forgotten . |
| 11 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 12 | And we 're insisting that you stay here just as long as you like , ’ she told them . |
| 13 | If people can see that you know your job , that you work probably harder than they do , that you communicate with them and tell them what you 're doing , they will respect you . |
| 14 | You will probably find that you perform very badly and feel dreadful for the first few minutes . |
| 15 | At some point the size of the enterprise may dictate that you think commercially rather than in terms of self-reliance . |
| 16 | And this is what distinguishes the reading of literature from the reading of philosophy which requires that one understands as fully as possible what is meant , and where it is assumed that the writing will illustrate the meaning in a direct and immediate way . |
| 17 | I have forgotten the ins and outs of it : all I remember is that we argued as passionately as if the national survival was at stake . |
| 18 | It was definitely a case of two points lost , but I am more disappointed that we played so well and did not win . ’ |
| 19 | And that 's why your idea that I think it does have to be a very gradual process where we learn to trust each other , we learn to live by our decisions that we make together rather than separate decisions . |
| 20 | ‘ I am determined that we build solidly rather than build fast . ’ |
| 21 | She has insisted that we look as discerningly and sympathetically at their world as at the more spectacular street cultures of their brothers and more militant sisters , and recognize ( as the painting on the cover of the book does ) the complexity and subtlety of feminine strategies of survival . |
| 22 | We have someone always there for those who have er , society those who are poor er , women er , many of the issues that we feel very strongly and here , here She had no sort of cultural historic resonance with the nation of Wales but I 'm sure her and the way she approaches her whole ministry would mean that she 'd have a lot of than those of us here in the URC in Wales . |
| 23 | and this gave you an opportunity to see yourself to see others and to take part in some coaching something that we did again yesterday and we shall be doing again today We then talked about the the design aspect first of all we talked about er the way the brain is involved in this communication and some of the aspects of the brain . |
| 24 | I think these proposals not only are a way forward but also in light of what is actually happening in the area of Highfields with er the high numbers of unemployment , with the high rate of people underachieving in education I think for the last two and a half years there has been no clear guidelines or structure that has systematically brought about any results in the two centres to move forward where people have lost out by this issue being bureaucratic and a political football that 's being kicked about and I think it 's about time where we now have cross party consensus that we move positively forward and work towards these proposals . |
| 25 | It is further intended to change people 's attitudes so that they drive more smoothly and are aware of the kind of roads that they are using and drive at speeds tailored to fit the environment . |
| 26 | Even if , at first reading , you find them formidable , when you come to answer them you will be surprised that they become much easier than you had imagined . |
| 27 | The advantages of these are that they last much longer and cost much less to run ( the saving well outweighs the higher asking price ) ; their disadvantages are that the light they give is not quite so ‘ warm ’ and does not come on instantly . |
| 28 | They treat their women like mules and they fornicate with animals ; indeed in this respect they are so jealous that they go so far as to attach chastity belts to their mares and mules . |
| 29 | She watched the keys fall , noting that they fell more slowly than they would have done on the Earth . |
| 30 | The questions are themselves tentative ( and surely incomplete ) but they are questions of a different order in that they look forward rather than backward . |