Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet with its residual gentility , its variegated forest of a garden where we had practical botany lessons , and the original Victorian mansion building with its labyrinth of poky rooms and winding staircases , it must have seemed that the convent was an accidental inheritance , never really meant for us , and thereby reminding us that we had come into our own ; we had by right something more than had once been intended for us . |
| 2 | In 1537 Ralph Sadler complained to Cromwell about the probable consequences of an enforced withdrawal : ‘ My absence from the court will so much hinder me that I shall never be able to recover . ’ |
| 3 | And it more or less made it that we 'd got to go back for the ten and thruppence . |
| 4 | On his wedding night the sight of his wife 's pubic hair so appalled him that he was shocked into sexual abstinence for the rest of his life — not that he lost the urge . |
| 5 | Oh , and you 'd better reassure her that I did n't bash in his head for him . |
| 6 | Only got it that there 's news . |
| 7 | ‘ By sending love for hatred you will so neutralise it that it will not only have no effect upon you , but will not be able even to reach you . ’ |
| 8 | and so divided it that the remainder went to the husband to take up the one thousand one hundred and sixty five . |
| 9 | he was right at the height of his Anthony Newley hang-up , so one problem was constantly reminding him that he sounded like Anthony Newley and trying to ‘ de-Newleyfy ’ him if you could . |
| 10 | The 7th Earl decided in the early part of the twentieth century to install in the two rooms the panelling and so designed it that there were recesses for pictures . |
| 11 | Love and attention being the rewards of infantile behaviour , it only amazes me that I did not think of the idea sooner . |
| 12 | It did not take them long to inform us that we had arrived with their traditional enemies , the Bugis . |
| 13 | Well , the immunologist from the clinic went in and evaluated Ron and basically told him that he had … that he was not going to live more than the most a few weeks , and he could have control over the time of his death if he wished , and that was his decision to make , and he should think about it and talk it over with me . |
| 14 | The discussion was opened by Chris Swinson , chairman of the Financial Reporting and Auditing Group , who basically told us that it was a foregone conclusion and after hearing views of those present , told us all to stop whingeing about the matter and to accept the situation . |
| 15 | We all have people in our churches who have this sunny disposition , who can chat unselfconsciously with the shy and defensive newcomer , and so relax them that quickly and imperceptibly he takes them from small talk on to more serious matters . |
| 16 | I suddenly told them that I had to push , the urge was absolutely OVERPOWERING , quite unbelievable . |
| 17 | ‘ So I suddenly told him that I wished I had a son . |
| 18 | The book reached King Charles I in captivity , and its permissiveness so displeased him that he asked another of his chaplains , Dr Hammond , to refute it . |
| 19 | She merely told him that the book bore a crest , an embossed crest of a hawk . |
| 20 | That alone told her that she was far from being in love with Dick . |
| 21 | And they sat numb and silent in a small hospital office , as a doctor gently told them that Danny was dead . |
| 22 | Excitement had for days so filled her that she could not sleep , and now at last she had embarked upon it ; thoughts of loss and martyrdom paled before the facts . |
| 23 | No , she only told me that the other day yeah she is |
| 24 | Even Geoffrey Winbush 's statement only told them that Louise had been on the Woodham Road . |
| 25 | Beth had been surprised to know that Cissie herself had been thinking along those very same lines , and it only told her that she was right about Maisie 's children — they were growing up fast . |
| 26 | But something deep inside told him that Bernice had been right . |
| 27 | The hon. Member for Carlisle ( Mr. Martlew ) rightly told us that it would be impossible for a county council to run housing strategy . |
| 28 | Here otherwise close associates like Bridgeman and F. E. Smith distanced themselves from Maxse , while another committed tariff reformer , his fellow editor and friend H. A. Gwynne , pointedly told him that ‘ for good or evil ’ , the Conservative party was ‘ the only weapon we have with which to achieve our purpose and help on the causes which both you and I have strongly at heart … and anything that tends to disorganize it or to destroy the efficiency of that weapon seems to me to postpone the fulfilment of our desires … |
| 29 | Paul did n't have a very high opinion of Waafs and constantly told us that his Diedre would n't dream of joining up and that no girls looked their best in uniform . |
| 30 | The right hon. Member for Blaby will be remembered as the Chancellor who dismissed rising inflation as a temporary blip and who , having put up interest rates to 15 per cent. , none the less assured us that the economy would have , to use his phrase , a soft landing . |