Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not very good at them Mum gave me that one it 's been in quite good condition but |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , my husband called him that . |
| 3 | My guvnor told me that . |
| 4 | I like him in that jumper and my friend gave him that . |
| 5 | They felt very alone — my father tells me that . |
| 6 | My doctor tells me that leg of his must still be hurting like the devil . |
| 7 | My mother told me that Dad was on one of his frequent business trips to America and would be home in a couple of days . |
| 8 | My name is Lori Adams , but only my mother calls me that . |
| 9 | ‘ My mother taught me that . |
| 10 | Her ladyship told me that what kept her going throughout the service was a beautiful letter from Prince Charles that she carried in her handbag . |
| 11 | She heard her grandmother informing her that out there , in that Mongolian vastness , was ‘ The Dragon 's Tomb ’ where her own great-grandfather had gone to find the dinosaur eggs . |
| 12 | Their hope has been realized , by rather than for miscreants ; their rhetoric reminds us that Victorian values did not produce an orderly society . |
| 13 | Their closely cropped hair and the drawn pale look of hunger in their faces gave them that terrifying animal uniformity which falls over all human beings in permanent physical distress . |
| 14 | She hated to use the word ‘ common ’ , only common people called other people ‘ common ’ ; her mother taught her that . |
| 15 | She said her mother gave him that photograph . ’ |
| 16 | He did say something Christopher told me that |
| 17 | What a wonderful Christmas gesture by Nigel Havers to donate £300 to a woman whose plumber charged her that amount for unblocking a toilet . |
| 18 | The identifiable failures of school science — the anti-science anti-technologists who can see science only as domination rather than that science as domination is itself a historical product , and the mass of people whose schooling teaches them that science is a specialized activity over which they neither have nor could have any control . |
| 19 | Managers whose consciences tell them that service users ought to have a voice often choose just one articulate , recovered , temporary recipient of the service as a token single voice of the mental health planning committee , where this lone individual often feels at a serious disadvantage , confused by professional jargon and out of his or her depth in the complex and confusing world of statutory agency planning . |
| 20 | ‘ His books taught me that poetry can be pure and profound , and at the same time popular . ’ |
| 21 | His attitude showed her that quite clearly . |
| 22 | His father told him that story : his father looked at him through a glass : he had a hairy face . |
| 23 | ‘ He nevaire told you that . |
| 24 | Or was it architects convincing us that 's what we wanted , in order to make building cheaper ? |
| 25 | ‘ Me dad told me that story abaht Bobby Peel as a lesson . |
| 26 | so mm Win and Caroline are moving once again , has me mum told you that saga ? |
| 27 | The fact that we are commanded to love even our enemies tells us that love is more of a decision than a feeling . |
| 28 | The office procedures , she said , is simple anyway , and yet , ethics and etiquette is a , she said , and your teacher works you that hard and it just drills in anyway ! |
| 29 | Only when the children feel less threatened will they be able to relax , and it 's up to you and your husband to give them that security . |
| 30 | Let our enterprise keep it that way , ’ a group of institute members has hired ad agency J Walter Thompson for a three-day campaign in the newspapers . |