Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was suffering as he must have suffered ; and if he knew her pain might he not come to her , as she had so often come to him , gently reminding her that despair was an unavoidable but essential ordeal , of the quest ? |
| 2 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 3 | we 've , we 've only seen her that , we 've only spoke to her once |
| 4 | He did n't have to scream at people to get his way ; he just told them and he knew that they knew they had better do it that way or there was gon na be trouble ! ’ |
| 5 | The Judge said that he had stolen Lady Margaret 's ring , and that she had only bought it that day and the ring was a very expensive diamond . |
| 6 | He served his time at sea , is quite capable of looking after himself , and apparently prefers it that way . |
| 7 | On the other hand though I was really drunk so maybe I only remember it that way John turned round to me at the end and said , I ca n't understand you All the people I know , when they get pissed , they start fights , whereas you just seem really happy |
| 8 | And they will actually keep your deeds , erm work out if it is cheap enough to do it that way . |
| 9 | He lacked a driving force , though Constance was not sophisticated enough to put it that way . |
| 10 | Even if only one peg in a hundred pegger is good enough to give them that chance . |
| 11 | It should not perhaps surprise us that trade unions appear to have made less bargaining headway on the issues of job design than on the question of equipment design . |
| 12 | So it 's more than a little interesting to note that today , they 're all doing it that way . |
| 13 | So it 's more than a little interesting to note that today , they 're all doing it that way . |
| 14 | Hon. Members from the Democratic Unionist party are constantly asking me that question . |
| 15 | I 'm honest , I 'd better tell you that . |
| 16 | Your ankle 's improving , so keep it that way . ’ |
| 17 | On that day , various poptastic things happened all over the world , all to convince you that AIDS is a terrible thing , that safe sex does n't mean no sex and that we must all love one another and usher in a new era of positivity etc etc . |
| 18 | And so do I. That 's what it was all about . ’ |
| 19 | So do I. That 's why we can talk . ’ |
| 20 | This obsession — and one can , I think , rightly call it that — involved me in probably the most embarrassing event of my professional life . |
| 21 | Ernest Long summarised the change snappily in his note to the Authority 's accountant when they were working out the implications in 1954 : ‘ instead of being messed about by the long-haired boys at the Treasury we are now dealt with by the Finance boys — and we much prefer it that way ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ My pleasure , ’ he murmured suavely , and from then until Mrs Novakova came in to tell them that dinner was ready he engaged her in surface conversation that had nothing whatsoever to do with the reason for why she was there . |
| 23 | Only veteran Phil Carrick has been around long enough to tell them that 45-year-old Robinson was one of the hardest working and most likeable players ever to wear a Yorkshire cap . |
| 24 | In fact , we would rather do it that way . |
| 25 | ‘ The conventional way would be to see this movie as the rise and fall of a rock star ; I have chosen not to see it that way . |
| 26 | ‘ Just bring me that chip , Marco , ’ she said . |
| 27 | It 's just proving it that 's going to be difficult . |
| 28 | That 's correct , it 's erm the winter day just given us that little bit more of a cushion , and so obviously we 're delighted to get the result . |
| 29 | Ackroyd put the signals to red , rang the station down the line to tell them that he had a problem and then rang the next station above to alert them that he still had a train in his section . |
| 30 | A little later he crooked her in the shelter of his arms and said , ‘ You 've no idea what it took for me to come over to see you that first time . ’ |