Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had n't occurred to her that I might take up the blackmail where Jack Mahoney had left off . |
| 2 | I thought that I would scratch out the pictures , but now that the woman has seen them they are not mine any more . |
| 3 | The fields shone a new green in the sun , and the air which for days had been hazy had been cleaned by the rain so that I could make out the shapes of sheep grazing near the old Coal Road above Cowgill as I walked down the lane . |
| 4 | Speaking more generally , I suppose that I could sum up the Prime Minister 's speech — without rancour — as timid , devoid of national purpose and lacking in inspiration . |
| 5 | Thus it was that I decided to give Edward Young a greater part to play in At Home in Thrush Green for , having burnt down the rectory in an earlier book , it seemed only right that I should hand over the job of replacing my act of arson to the architect I had created . |
| 6 | They deliberately looked for inconsistencies where they basically knew I 'd told them but two aspects of the truth , in the hope that I 'd blurt out the real truth about something else in my fright and confusion . |
| 7 | Mala chose to go first , saying that she would check out the landing area for dangerous watchers and warn me if necessary when she sent the pod back up . |
| 8 | On her way , out of shame that she would mess up the arrangements , she stopped at a small shop and got some fresh rolls and ham , some butter and some tins of Smithwicks bitter . |
| 9 | This means that she can throw out the eggs of her nest mates , but they have little chance to throw out hers . |
| 10 | What practical steps can you take to ensure that you can carry out the task you have undertaken with advantage to your parent and without damage to yourself ? |
| 11 | 2 Record the details of the request and ask for further details about the proposed story so that you can dig out the most useful in-depth material . |
| 12 | We 'll be happy to survey your home to ensure that you can pick up the necessary signals … and that you really will be able to enjoy perfect Satellite Television reception . |
| 13 | If your camcorder has manual override of the exposure control , try the effect of this at various settings ( with the camcorder picture shown on a colour television ) so that you can work out the one which gives the best balance between the highlight and shadow areas . |
| 14 | Find what is WRONG in these examples then write them out correctly so that you can work out the answers . |
| 15 | But any that have been worn flat or dug out of the applicator base are obviously such favourites that you should write down the names immediately . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought that we would go up the Television Tower and see the view , then go to the museums , especially the Pergamon , then the Palace of the Republic , then … . ’ |
| 17 | Being the only Leeds fan in a London inner city school with Alan Clarks famous speach about bring Success to Leeds in 3 Years , is causing me to go into cold shivers and giving me a pessimistic mood about the new season , I can still remember the years of telling school friends at the end of each season that we are rebuilding and that we would come up the next season . |
| 18 | To estimate the MPC t α 1 , it might be thought that we could carry out the following regression : where is an error term , and treat the value obtained for as an estimate of the MPC t α : 1 . |
| 19 | But to suggest that we should toss out the Garden of Eden story because it is not necessarily literal historical fact would be a dangerous precedent . |
| 20 | I do not say that we should pull up the anchor and take the United Kingdom somewhere else . |
| 21 | Nothing is more important than that we should take down the barriers — like National Insurance and pensions — which stand in the way of new employment and job mobility . |
| 22 | This does not mean that we should act out the ‘ dark ’ side of our nature . |
| 23 | This means that we can pass on the benefits to policy holders such as yourself by either reducing the policy charges or indeed er increasing the bonuses wherever possible . |
| 24 | I hope , though , there are fifteen hundred families in Portslade who are doing that job , not for me but for them , so that we can carry out the important educational processes that go on within the college . |
| 25 | I do not think that we can turn back the tide of secularisation altogether in the area of dying , but we can call a halt to it by giving some serious thought to practices within our society and churches . |
| 26 | .. he has shown us that we can take on the Americans and beat them . |
| 27 | ‘ However , we would like to have ours up and running much sooner so that we can iron out the teething problems before it becomes law . ’ |
| 28 | They also insisted that they would blow up the mines if Ceauşescu tried to force them back to work . |
| 29 | Both Canada and Argentina admit that it would only be by default that they would take on the task of staging the tournament . |
| 30 | Well that 's what I was wondering that 's why I said go out into fresh air , in the hopes that they might shake off the bug I do n't think it works like that , do you ? |