Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're too embarrassed to actually part with them and so you have this very difficult decision as to whether to insist that you have their laundry or whether you allow them to go on doing that , causing them to live in a smelly environment . |
| 2 | You would expect them to carry on doing that . |
| 3 | How on earth d' you expect me to sit there watching that woman being forced to humiliate herself like that ? ’ |
| 4 | No-one has ever said that about us before . |
| 5 | You see I 've just taped that . |
| 6 | there you see I 've just cured that one look , that one with |
| 7 | Okay , I mean just ignore that one , forget I wrote it . |
| 8 | I mean just thinking that ? |
| 9 | Now if I 'm presenting my centre line to Tony and speaking to him that feels fine yeah , but if I talk to you Dave over my shoulder like that I mean how does that feel ? |
| 10 | Erm I do n't know I do n't yo I , I think possibly having that foot up on the stool was perhaps a mistake . |
| 11 | Oh I quite agree because I think that there people that have , I 'm a car driver , but if I 'm in inner city I tend not to use that , I use public transport |
| 12 | I reckon hed kick someones bollox if someone came up to do that to him . |
| 13 | It would be good to see old England again and even if I did n't find her I could tell myself I 'd just tried that little bit . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , I 'd just got that out when you rang the bell . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd nearly forgotten that . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought I 'd already done that . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You see , the fare 's the same as the date and the date as the year — I 'd already noticed that , of course . |
| 18 | But I 'd already decided that journalism was the perfect career for me . |
| 19 | Er , I hoped I 'd made clear that if the profits of Pearsons erm er not only if they went down but even if er , there was only a small erm , increase in earnings per share er next year that the the directors ' salaries would be very considerably reduced and I thought I 'd already made that erm , er , directors ' erm remuneration total take home pay would be considerably reduced thought I 'd already made that point . |
| 20 | Er , I hoped I 'd made clear that if the profits of Pearsons erm er not only if they went down but even if er , there was only a small erm , increase in earnings per share er next year that the the directors ' salaries would be very considerably reduced and I thought I 'd already made that erm , er , directors ' erm remuneration total take home pay would be considerably reduced thought I 'd already made that point . |
| 21 | I 'd already gone that way twice . |
| 22 | No I 'd already thought that . |
| 23 | I 'd already thought that through Sue . |
| 24 | I 'd never felt that tired in my life . |
| 25 | I 'd never felt that before with anyone . |
| 26 | I said I pretend I 'd never heard that question David , because if I answer it I said there 's a lot more |
| 27 | I wished I 'd never known that |
| 28 | I tell you something I wish I 'd never had that cat round my back door . |
| 29 | really , oh no I 'd never thought that would work cos I thought that would |
| 30 | I 'd always understood that land should only go into the greenbelt if it was necessary to be kept permanently open , by reason of it performing one of the five purposes . |