Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [adv] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It is not true that I only play this game for money . |
2 | Being a mere composite from charnel houses , I fear that I alone undergo this sorrow behind the eyebrows . |
3 | I unashamedly admit that I sometimes use this song as a form of social control . |
4 | Helen amused herself with the pretence that she always lived this way . |
5 | Naturally she pointed out that she never sought this adulation , quite the opposite , and was frankly horrified by media attention . |
6 | The most curious thing is that we actually esteem this sort of thinking and consider it clever instead of facile . |
7 | What organizing principles must the cells have so that they reliably give this pattern , even when the cells are rearranged and the length of the line varies ? |
8 | It has to be said that he also invoked this oath against his barons when it suited him to do so , as in 1301 : it served against the laity no less than against the clergy . |
9 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
10 | To have asked him to be a godfather had crossed my mind ; but I knew that he already held this office in plurality . |
11 | I know that he recently considered this matter at a meeting with the northern TECs , but will he further consider the plight of some regions where costs are slightly higher than in , say , the south-east ? |
12 | It is possible that the subject retained a single letter in the form of a visual representation of the acoustic stimulus and that he subsequently matched this representation against the visually presented probe stimulus . |