Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] to that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Cabinet system simply does not lend itself to that sort of Novices ' Handicap . |
| 2 | For one has to recognize that if one had their desires one would not accept principles which rode roughshod over their satisfaction , and this implies that one should not accept them at all , since one can not universalise them to that hypothetical situation in which one would be forced to reject them . |
| 3 | Um so erm I did have some I did have some references on this which erm unfortunately I I put to one side and I 've succeeded in losing so erm I did n't get the chance to put them on the handout but erm I 'm just alerting you to that area of debate and that area of enquiry . |
| 4 | There are little tricks , for example , if it 's a time clause , when you think to yourself oh God it 's one of those lists , you sit down and calm yourself , take a Valium or whatever it is and just apply yourselves to that , right , what the next point is so the first thing I want you to do is stop at this time clause , when you realize it 's a time clause I want you to go trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot trot to the main verb , alright ? |
| 5 | And what and surely you did n't just say nothing to that ? |
| 6 | By 1960 , the American space programme had launched a number of ‘ Mercury ’ spacecraft , and the first of their manned spacecrafts was launched in the early part of 1961 , once again with the Russians just beating them to that objective . |
| 7 | A lot of people will probably relate it to that commercial I think , or they 'll think of the little bunny rabbits in Duracell , that 's what I thought |
| 8 | well not posters , the horsewatch is a prime example where I wanted to look at setting a format in a particular way , and to sit at the side of either Alf or Tracey well now alter it to that or to that I 'm sure they 'd do it , but nevertheless it 's putting them off their work . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I 'll say this , ’ said one elderly notable : ‘ We did n't think owt to that Machin when he were alive , and I doubt we 'll change our minds thirty years after he 's gone . ’ |
| 10 | At a guess I 'd say he 's probably been dead five or six hours but do n't hold me to that . |
| 11 | A lot of people wo n't commit themselves to that kind of thing . |
| 12 | ‘ I could n't put you to that trouble . |
| 13 | What happens if you issue one to , you manage to get it to this department today but ca n't get it to that department 'til tomorrow and . |
| 14 | If she had n't subjected her to that late-night journey , with all the upheavals that had accompanied it , perhaps the poor child would not have fallen ill . |
| 15 | Erm , one reason why ca n't help himself to that is because that would be a history of change , that would be a history of the body , and that is not intrinsic to us . |
| 16 | That I have much more of this world 's goods than Garry will ever have could n't help you to that decision , could it ? ’ he said , and her heart sank at the cynical twist to his mouth and his bitter tone . |
| 17 | I could n't say anything to that which would not have been construed as offensive . |
| 18 | She did n't say anything to that , just drank more beer and then came back with : ‘ So why the interest ? |
| 19 | Her eyes stayed on her coffee and she did n't say anything to that . |
| 20 | Ca n't say anything to that ! |
| 21 | I loathe the plots hatched by the Spanish government to slip ‘ Guernica ’ surreptitiously into Spain with the promise that it would be put on show at the whorehouse they call the Prado and then moved it to that pigsty , the Reina Sofia . |
| 22 | But why shackle yourself to that horror ? |
| 23 | I understand your concern an and were that the case show your reluctance to go with the the amendment but there is no such implication that the three point six five one million er er thereby becomes committed in any sense and the big this is an additional provision which may lead er may gone up to er over and above that but it does n't actually admit it to that . |
| 24 | ‘ You never took her to that hole , Vic ? ’ |
| 25 | Douglas Hurd 's announcement on Friday that he will try to tighten up the law relating to the licensing of these parties should certainly address itself to that aspect of the problem . |