Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Boniface wrote to other bishops , he had a way of invariably reminding them that Christian authority meant service . |
| 2 | She had come north , summoned by a War Office telegram to see me that first time . |
| 3 | Sir George Askwith , the Board of Trade 's Chief Industrial Commissioner , quickly persuaded Devonport to meet Harry Gosling and Harry Orbell , an influential official of the London Dockers , who were representative of both the executive of the Transport Workers ' Federation and the workers ' side of the Port of London Authority and to assure them that existing agreements would be maintained . |
| 4 | But do n't tell me he is a United player , the kind who can win them that coveted crown . |
| 5 | If we send them that well-known telegram ‘ Send reinforcements . |
| 6 | ‘ She never promised me that first time , so she 's never broken her promise to me yet . |
| 7 | Three loose hounds were in there ; one , she was sure when she got a good look , was a bitch , Wrathful , who had impressed her that memorable day last February . |
| 8 | Did n't realize we 'd won it that many . |
| 9 | The story has it that young de Malleray , a second-lieutenant in the same regiment , having heard the first news but not the sequel , was himself on the way up to the line that evening , and encountered his father 's Colonel . |
| 10 | Popular myth has it that poor peasants and casual workers in the Third World do not pay tax . |
| 11 | Do n't worry about some Strangelove of a character turning your innocent little toy into a satellite vaporiser , theory has it that military research is second rate because you can not do good research behind screens of secrecy and away from the cut and thrust of peer review . |
| 12 | Rumour has it that last season their manager dressed a dozen tailor 's dummies in Aston Villa strips for his team to practise their passing and dribbling sills . |
| 13 | One estimate has it that British ELT materials are available in more than 100 countries . |
| 14 | I mean what it needs it that random pixel degradation across the page to give you back the letterpress look . |
| 15 | The letter continued : ’ The answers to your specific questions to the Minister , are , therefore , that we have seen a certain amount of information on the cost of the King 's Cross project ’ — we should like to know what that certain amount of information is — ’ and the projected revenues before giving consent to the deposit of the Bill . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And do you happen to know what that particular type of poetry is called ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Forget what that foolish frog told you . |
| 18 | Earth Mysteries researcher , Brian Larkman , has reminded us that contemporary physics envisages ‘ virtual particles ’ which come into existence for almost infinitely small periods of time before disappearing . |
| 19 | He advised me that normal meningitis , the kind that affects young kids , is much worse . |
| 20 | The time may yet come when we shall have to face the bullets of our fellow workers in warning them that armed force is no remedy , whether in the hands of the capitalist or the worker . |
| 21 | It was very , very close , the difference was two or three big points , he just played them that little bit better . ’ |
| 22 | One of the girls at school assured me that unbaptised infants were sent not to hell , but to limbo . |
| 23 | Dr M M Muthiah , consultant physician , told me that existing good relations with social services and other disciplines should ensure a smooth transition to the new style of community care . |
| 24 | Even in the nuclear family , women told me that certain jobs should never be done by a man , they were not Izzat wali kam ( i.e. jobs of honour ) or they were not manly , and predictably these tasks included almost all household chores . |
| 25 | I was advised to speak initially to the region 's director of public health , who told me that geographical limitations and the pastoral duties of a vicar 's wife were not a good enough reason to train part time , and he would not support my application . |
| 26 | They told me that sexual examination is a routine part of the entry certificate procedure at British Diplomatic missions in the Indian subcontinent . |
| 27 | Tony Ruffell , chief executive of Nottinghamshire FHSA , told me that preliminary research in the county suggested that each general practitioner would encounter only a few such difficult decisions a year — perhaps five or six . |
| 28 | One , living in Newcastle on Tyne 's Salvation Army Men 's palace , told me that homeless men lost basic citizen 's rights because " laws apply to them but never for them " . |
| 29 | Inside , the elderly English upper-class proprietor told me that true Communism only survives in Albania . |
| 30 | He told me that same as you . |