Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when I was in secondary school and took notice of the relationship of children of my age were with their parents and families , that I realised how other people behaved . |
| 2 | If we have the same amount of cold weather this winter as we had last winter , we will more or less double the coverage of the benefit as a result of the changes that I announced earlier this year . |
| 3 | It was for a number of reasons , apart from a wish to escape from teaching , that I set out some weeks later for Libya , then a country almost entirely unknown . |
| 4 | It was only long after her death that I realized how much anger lay under my acceptance of that responsibility and how much energy I had used holding that down . |
| 5 | I realised that I get far more excitement than my heart and head can stand just from seeing my favourite sportsmen or women or teams fight their good fights and win magnificently , or lose unluckily ( always unluckily ) and my blood pressure would be much better off without even that vicarious sort of excitement . |
| 6 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
| 7 | It will not even pass through their minds that I spent so much trouble and thought on choosing the right disease or the most just punishment for my fictional character . |
| 8 | the er children 's television show they they occasionally show a Newfoundland pulling a boat , well now that 's the film that I made about ten years ago and this Newfoundland pulled in the boat . |
| 9 | My only rather weighty problem is the fact that I speak very little French though I am learning , both at French lessons and at my Medau classes . |
| 10 | Thank goodness that I came back this morning . ’ |
| 11 | We never came to any agreement , but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matter during the course of such discussions , and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today . |
| 12 | I have always made it clear that I take seriously any allegations of misbehaviour in any children 's home in Wales . |
| 13 | ‘ Azadi said that I had just twenty-four hours to provide him with the exact location of the ship — or else I would be executed . |
| 14 | ‘ But I found that I had n't any money with me , so I came along here instead . ’ |
| 15 | I replied rather coldly that I had not drunk alcohol since 1939 , and that it had been my hope that we should stop somewhere where I could wash up generally , relieve myself and have a little rest . |
| 16 | I found that I had far more anger in me than I ever realized . |
| 17 | ‘ I think my trouble was that I had too much help and felt as if my boobs were all anyone was interested in . |
| 18 | The fact that I had so little self-control seemed to be irritating him ever so slightly . |
| 19 | I have a small , immediate family and up until my cancer I would say that I had very few friends . |
| 20 | Certainly Americans see it as being very different from their home-grown shows and for some reason they all seem to think that I ask rather cheeky questions , which I 'll take as a compliment . |
| 21 | exerting , that I carry too much weight and I know that and its like the lady said its not the chocolate biscuits but it is erm self erm |
| 22 | Not that I had a bad opinion of his character , ( I do n't know him ) , it is just that I feel most other clubs would not have even responded to you . |
| 23 | Gentlemen : It is with great regret that I see so many students labouring day after day in the Academy , as if they imagined that a liberal art , such as ours , was to be acquired like a mechanical trade , by dint of labour , or I may add the absurdity of supposing that it could be acquired by any means whatever . |
| 24 | Solanki had told the Lok Sabha on March 30 that " I now regret that I handed over this note " but that " neither I nor my ministry instructed the Swiss authorities to stop or impede investigations into the Bofors case " . |
| 25 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 26 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 27 | Such research would be all the more effective if it were done in conjunction with the European and British institutes for tropical research that I discussed earlier this year ( 3 and 20 January , pp 106 and 183 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Rohan will tell you , mademoiselle , that I spend too much time on my researches . |
| 29 | I need to say , lest this sounds too one-sided , that I leave more positive comments to the conclusion , in which I describe more specifically how we will be attempting to take advantage of those aspects of the National Curriculum which offer hope of progress . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've really enjoyed the whole experience , ’ said Helen , ‘ and have learned to adapt my existing routine so that I look more polished overall . |