Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 The bad news is that the good news made me feel so relieved and excited that I ran out to a bar and drank a bunch of big ones .
2 I wanted to check on the landing patch that I keep there on a semi-permanent lease .
3 And indeed it 's a sign of the times that I speak not with a mitre metaphorically upon my head but perhaps the glengarry of the convenorship of the Central Council of ACTS and therefore I am in part your servant here .
4 It was only later that I came up with a theory for his reticence to stop and speak .
5 I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things .
6 Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better .
7 There were , of course , the inevitable forms to fill in and letters of condolence to answer , but I realized that I had not for a moment , since before the previous Christmas , given a thought to the prospect of life for one .
8 The café itself is so crowded with smoke that I sit outside on a bench .
9 If you do your environmental recycling I 've got a thing that I took out of a magazine that 's got all the addresses of erm of of the various thing for recycling paper
10 I 've already revealed that I started out in a donkey jacket , but I should add that it took me at least ten years to get a decent kit .
11 ‘ It was important that I moved on to a bigger stage , with a club in the top bracket of the English First Division , or Celtic and Rangers . ’
12 But on the other hand , the bibliography for the Tate catalogue required that I look back at a lot of old notices and I find that my perception was not at all valid .
13 I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door .
14 Yeah yeah yeah I had a shilling pocket money and out of that I saved up for a bike .
15 The son of a Jat farmer outside Delhi , by the age of thirteen she was already refusing to work in the fields , saying that she felt more like a woman than a man .
16 He had such a nice voice that she looked up with a smile , expecting to see a nice , kind face to match .
17 And so it was that she died alone in a mental hospital — as Eliot told Violet Schiff , one of the few who had known them both from their earliest days together , death could only have been a deliverance for her .
18 She was well aware that she purred inside like a cat if he even looked at her and the whole thing filled her with amazement .
19 In Sargent [ 1990 ] The Guardian , 3 July , Boreham J at Leeds Crown Court is reported as saying : " You were so negligent as to be reckless as to this woman 's welfare " , by pumping so much oxygen into her during an operation that she swelled up like a Michelin man .
20 One claim guaranteed to draw fire from Kylie is that she missed out on a childhood because of showbiz .
21 A driving curtain of rain blotted out everything other than the sodden turf nearest the house , the view so depressing that she turned away with a shiver , drawn like a magnet to the books on the shelves .
22 And this is of course , as if I agree with the view that you expressed yesterday in a general context , although it was made specifically then in relation to one village , any recommendation I make in relation to that village , if it is based on the general principle , must apply by analogy also to Skelton , and I would have little choice but to recommend to the councils that they may wish or indeed they should , reconsider this question of washing-over or insetting elsewhere .
23 He said : ‘ These are not 500 bananas that you pick up in a supermarket and put in your basket and take somewhere else .
24 If you have to compromise , change your mind or adapt an idea , make a new list , date it and file it so that you end up with a master check list that is a complete record of the whole procedure .
25 If you are going this route is would help if you employed an accountant with some experience in operating computerised accounting systems and your own accountants would again give you lack of expertise in this area be better to get involved in the recruitment process to ensure that you end up with a suitable individual to run your system .
26 So — we would much rather that you went out on a limb , that you did something , that you listened to the remarks of your peers and possibly to the remarks that we might make about them , take them away and think about them .
27 So that you wind up with a prioritised monthly to do list .
28 Erm how do people sort of beco when you become a member of a group , usually in some way the group changes you as you go through different stages of it , your values may change as a result of interacting with people in the group and th this process of erm somebody 's come up with how it is that you start off in a group , how it is that you become an active member of a group , how it is you may even become involved in the maintenance of the group and the leadership of it and then you sort of die away and that 's the y'know retire from the group .
29 But I simply want to make the the point of planning principle that you do n't as a matter of approach walk away from constrained sites and say , ah well we do n't like that because there 's some constraint , we 'll go and we 'll reallocate an another piece of land somewhere else , and er that 'll come forward more easily .
30 Er yes , the , the , I think the one bit of it that is not Mao 's is that , is that you do unfortunately in a sense sense have these statements from the , the various bureaux and this is a , th this absolute terror is okay .
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