Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] to [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , you 've had all you 're getting , my sweet little stepsister , and that 's the reason I 'm here today — to assure you that I intend to finally put an end to your grubby manoeuvres to extract money from my family ! ’ |
| 2 | It is with some reluctance that I have to strongly disagree with one of my fellow presidents , but some of the impressions that her article creates are very misleading and , in some cases , offensive . |
| 3 | It was then that she began to really drift from University life . |
| 4 | She appeared to have forgotten about my not going to the funeral but that was before she started to lose the steps to the attic , so to speak , so it just meant that she chose to not mention it . |
| 5 | Do you find that you tend to generally eat more , or crave sweet food more when you are feeling tired or have gone without food for a long time ? |
| 6 | that you want to really help them and you feel dead sorry for them |
| 7 | Sometimes he 's so determined he 's not going to go that we have to forcibly put him out of the door and get him into the car and get him there somehow . |
| 8 | Erm , the irony of the sort of split responsibility is that er one of the things that we have to obviously bear in mind with any future in erm extension of residents ' parking schemes is the cost , and er it 's interesting that the district council 's off-street er parking account erm for the area is , has got a reasonable surplus , and er well we as an authority 're responsible for , for off-street parking as well . |
| 9 | Obese people tend to have higher levels of insulin than those of normal weight , and the disadvantage of insulin is that it tends to further encourage the body to deposit rather than burn up fat . |
| 10 | I found out later it was the weekend that he decided to definitely make a run for the presidency . |
| 11 | By now they are probably nerves of iron because , you know , you have to co-exist with an army like that he has to really take it fairly easy because they can be quite rude and , you know , shove you around get whatever they want and very harmful methods . |