Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I saw death coming towards me I began to think it had been a bad business for me to kill that guy . ’ |
| 2 | There were an awful lot of tedious hours for me to kill that evening . |
| 3 | In any case , there was not enough time left for me to go that way to look for him . |
| 4 | Do you know what it did to me to see that animal on top of you , about to … ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ To allow me to see that woman in the land . |
| 6 | It did not take long for the two of them to agree that cost-cutting and restructuring were required . |
| 7 | And you would like me to provide that management ? ’ |
| 8 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 9 | ‘ The dear soul wishes to be in the theatre , ’ he told me , ‘ and her legs are good enough to allow me to encourage that ambition , though doubtless at the risk of slipping a disc or two in my back . |
| 10 | Chairman to that question are rather caused forgive me if I to answer that question . |
| 11 | Hmm I must go to Croydon must n't I to change that bra . |
| 12 | Were I to tell that story to my own son and tell him too of the subsequent shame and guilt that haunted me for months and is still so deeply etched in my memory , he would laugh and wonder what it was all about . |
| 13 | And higher still we ascended , by thinking inwardly and speaking and marvelling at your works , and we came to our minds and transcended them to reach that region of unfailing abundance where you feed Israel forever on the food of truth . |
| 14 | Do you want me to open that tin of fruit ? |
| 15 | We picked two poems on which it 's very easy for me to answer that kind of question because of course I did go back to the town where I was born , and erm wrote actually quite a lot of poems — well a lot , a lot for me would be four or five in that situation — of which this is probably the most successful and this one I 've put in a book . |
| 16 | Yes that seems to me to fit that sort of bill , erm to be quite honest I would prefer that we base the promises on a previous paper that T six six one , er you know , sort of er typical success of the fact looking forward cos at least erm that 's not so erm , you know , sort of difficult to erm you know achieve as erm sort of repairing potholes within , when you consider that the reason that the potholes do n't get mended is because government legislation has it that we have to actually erm have lines painted all round them , so that they can be part of the package of er road mending in many cases , I mean urgently erm difficult ones are not that common er so I think that perhaps some of these promises are so difficult because it gives with one hand and takes back with the other , you know , it says we promise , but , I , I would say that 's not much of a promise , you say I promise to erm , you know , erm merge , I forgot about , but if it said but , you know , if it rains I wo n't tell you , er it would be very sad |
| 17 | If erm things should start to go wrong and the chap on the floor erm was to make any movement or s sudden movement towards either P C or any other piece of equipment in the room which may cause injury or damage to ourselves or himself , it would be down to me to challenge that man er and allow P C to get back behind er the ballistic shield . |
| 18 | The difficulty we have with both this scheme and the others that er you 'll come to in a moment is that there are always people who want you to go that bit further . |
| 19 | If she expects you to treat that bitch politely , then you 'll do it . ’ |
| 20 | I did n't plan for you to lose that job , whatever you may think . " |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps I should leave you to answer that question , ’ she whispered . |
| 22 | How long did it take you to dredge that length ? |
| 23 | In Berkshire , on the M four , junction eleven to junction twelve , the A thirty three and Theale , it 's roadworks causing a ten mile tailback there in both directions and police ask you to avoid that area . |
| 24 | So in fact there 's still an endowment policy on you to cover that mortgage ? |
| 25 | ‘ It may surprise you to hear that typing is the last thing on my mind , ’ he said softly , sitting down beside her . |
| 26 | ‘ It was wrong of you to steal that money ’ is of this latter kind . |
| 27 | ‘ Nobody forced you to buy that house . ’ |
| 28 | You know where it says now try this , I 'd like you to do that exercise , putting in all the punctuation . |
| 29 | Then he said , we wou want you to do that work he said , because you 've got a good reputation . |
| 30 | Does listening to this conversation lead you to reinforce that conclusion ? |