Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | My postbag , and trips around the constituency , suggest to me that — in general — people are relieved that the community charge is going , and consider the council tax fair , reasonable and decent . |
| 2 | First of all , I suggest to you that communication ar is an absolutely key process . |
| 3 | My failure to even get interviewed soon demonstrated to me that , even though Goldsmiths had accepted me despite my disability , I would have to fight very hard to get any further . |
| 4 | ‘ T was to stop you becoming completely distraught , but I was afraid to look at you , afraid to come to you that night in case I saw fear or revulsion in your eyes . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He proposed to me that afternoon , ’ put in Angelina apologetically . |
| 6 | He remembered how Yuan had come to him that night , pale and frightened , woken by a terrible dream . |
| 7 | Some people probably think I take too long to decide such matters , but I can demonstrate to them that sometimes by giving people a reasonable length of time to adjust they come through with flying colours . |
| 8 | ‘ The means of accomplishing these points did not immediately present themselves : but early in 1765 it occurred to me that , if a communication were opened between a cylinder containing steam and another vessel which was exhausted of air and other fluids , would immediately rush into the empty vessel , and continue to do so until it had established an equilibrium : and if that vessel were kept cool by an injection , or otherwise , more steam would continue to enter until the whole was condensed ’ . |
| 9 | It just occurred to me that Tuesday would be another opportunity to talk to Julian , the guy who comes in and does the S U legal aid stuff . |
| 10 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 11 | occurred to me that . |
| 12 | On our last night in Vorarlberg , watching nine-month-old Elisabeth crawling round the dining room and finding a welcome at every table , it occurred to me that , right from babyhood , children instinctively know whether they 're welcome . |
| 13 | It occurred to me that , only a generation before mine , automobiles had been fuelled by gasoline . |
| 14 | It occurred to him that being on foot was probably an advantage ; a car drawing up on the gravel would be heard from the house . |
| 15 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 16 | I do n't think we need to type an enquiry , I think that the people who realise that , the fact that you had got there is meant to indicate to you that name of the firm was Mallard , and therefore by using by using Mallards , sausage skins , they 're expecting you to use apostrophe s . |
| 17 | Well what a lot of people say on the course is I know it 's my responsibility , but I always , I do n't always have the time to train because there 's a lot of backlog , there 's a lot of pressure , it 's and we all say to them that training is like a catch twenty two situation . |
| 18 | At one point we read Pip 's story and what actually happens to him that day and then the older Pip reflects on the younger Pip 's actions . |
| 19 | I says to her that 's what I want , you know I want mine doing like that |
| 20 | and I says to him that 's one thing you never get at that , that one at Top Shop |
| 21 | It came to her that being bewitched was like drowning , dark and easy . |
| 22 | Most of the good songs which I heard about came to me that way . |
| 23 | ’ , ‘ Comfortable woman needed , good with children … ’ , when the thought came to me that , with a roof over my head and just about enough money to live on , there was no real need for me to work at all . |
| 24 | ‘ There is one I 'd strongly tip for the future who came to me that way , though . |
| 25 | Which just came to me that moment . |
| 26 | Yes , more have came to me that 's right |
| 27 | Mr. Wadsworth submits to us that contempt of court is an offence of a criminal character , albeit it is a civil proceeding . |
| 28 | Not when you speak to me that way . ’ |
| 29 | I see a man up on the hill , but when as the minutes pass he does not move it occurs to me that what I am looking at must be a stone . |
| 30 | It occurs to me that ‘ mail order coffin supply ’ might be a suitable avenue to explore . ’ |