Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [pron] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lines of his short-cropped ruthless hair were disturbed , as though he had forgotten to comb it that morning or else , having combed , had continually run his fingers through it since then . |
| 2 | We therefore propose to introduce legislation which will give individual employees the right to join the union of their choice , free from interference from any arrangement between trade union bosses which is designed to deny them that choice . |
| 3 | Cara realized she had enjoyed telling him that . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've come to tell you that . |
| 5 | His eye was watching the barley while he was thinking about the outing he had decided to give himself that evening . |
| 6 | The modern films are scientifically more respectable and probably better films , but every word of commentary trembles with piety and no chance is ever missed to remind us that man is the intruder , the destroyer , the only sinful animal in the biosphere . |
| 7 | reckon if you 're seen carrying a knife again , then there 's only one clear alternative for you and you 've got to know what that is . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a wonderful opportunity , Christian , and I 'm grateful for your trust in me but you 've already agreed to sell me that fifty acres of new land . |
| 9 | I think it is very sad they 've had to do it that way . |
| 10 | If he had thought to subdue her that way , he was disappointed . |
| 11 | Leo had promised to ring me that evening in case there had been any news from the hospital ; and I told him my own news . |
| 12 | We , the G M B , have got to offer them that support . |
| 13 | The appellant , if he believed that Mr. Occhi , knowing that £7 was far in excess of the legal fare , had nevertheless agreed to pay him that sum , could not be said to have acted dishonestly in taking it . |
| 14 | Got to get you that erm leotard today , I must do that . |
| 15 | You 've got to tell me that . ’ |
| 16 | If you say if you do n't think this is for you you 've got to tell me that . |
| 17 | Since considerations of probability are to the fore in one part of actual scientific practice bearing on causation , and there is little attempt to go beyond them , and there is to hand the Probability Calculus , we are invited to take it that causation can come to no more than probability . |
| 18 | Then last night the police called to tell me that Mum , Dad , Pet and Wee Charlie were missing , but that you were safe . |
| 19 | She had a pretty shrewd idea that Desmond had only the haziest notion of how much could be expected from the various books , and she had intended to keep it that way . |
| 20 | He might have gone to see her that Saturday night . |
| 21 | She 'd ignored the warning , and gone to see him that very afternoon , in the studio off the Edgware Road . |
| 22 | Sure , I could adapt any song and get away with it , but I ca n't say I 'd be as satisfied doing it that way , and I certainly would n't choose to interpret those things on one guitar . ’ |
| 23 | Someone had tried to kill her that very morning . |
| 24 | Todays visit from Labour Energy spokesman , Frank Dobson , was meant to reassure them that British mined coal would take preference under a Labour Government . |
| 25 | Had he meant to give them that special significance ? |
| 26 | I have tried to convince you that problem solving is important and that it can be taught and learned by means of guided problem solving . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've tried to tell her that . |
| 28 | She had n't meant to tell him that . |
| 29 | He would have liked to know who that ‘ client of Harvey Gough & partners ’ had been-Amold Tatham himself , perhaps , using the pension contributions he had withdrawn on his resignation . |
| 30 | The irony is even though the travellers have now been evicted from this field in Enstone … it will stay unused … the landowers are being paid to keep it that way as part of the Ministry of Agriculture 's Set Aside policy |