Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally I did n't think for a minute that my life and spirit could stimulate her . |
| 2 | I do n't think for a minute that I can work them out in movies . |
| 3 | I did n't think for a minute that if we ever met again you would so bitterly slap it back in my face with no regard for my feelings . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ When I got back and found your note I did n't think for a minute that it was because you thought I was the father of the child . |
| 5 | It 's a frustrating affair though — do n't think for a second that you can breeze through this game ; think yourself lucky if you get past the first few levels ! |
| 6 | The effect is to make you think for a second that the church is only half there , that there must once have been a second side to it , to the right of the tower . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , now that we 've decided that nothing is going to happen tonight that does n't happen every Saturday night in Pepe 's Bar , tell me — why on earth can you even think for a second that Miguel is falling for me ? ’ |
| 8 | But do n't think for a moment that I 'm duped by my own little lies . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd love to help her , and I know every one of us would ; but I do n't think for a moment that Miss Miggs would let us pay her fare , even if we could raise so much money . ’ |
| 10 | And I do n't think for a moment that I 'm alone in feeling this way . |
| 11 | Do n't think for a moment that the women are all on the creative side of the business . |
| 12 | He could feel the vibrations in his bones ; juddering the cradle he was strapped into , making him think for a moment that the tiny vehicle was going to shake itself to pieces . |
| 13 | I do not think for a moment that the Letter of Aristeas should be taken as a Festal Scroll , something like the Book of Esther , to be read in the Alexandrian synagogues every year on the day on which ( as we know from Philo ) the Alexandrian Jews commemorated the translation ( De vita Mosis 2.41 ) . |
| 14 | Aung San got through a message that he was ready to come over to the Allies while the Japanese understood that he would be fighting for them . |
| 15 | Within six days , on 3 May 1862 , the young boy died , Benjamin declaring as he applied for a certificate that he had been present at the death . |
| 16 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 17 | You 've got to go for a ball that 's on the table . |
| 18 | I would be grateful if you would sign the attached copy of this letter and return it to me , with the payment and contract and any other additions you would normally make as an indication that you agree to these conditions . |
| 19 | It is found along with fossils of planktonic organisms and it is possible to explain the change in growth between coil and trumpet as a change that happened when the larval shell settled on the bottom . |
| 20 | I am not suggesting for a moment that this kind of problem can be resolved merely by putting more resources in , but at the same time there is need to spend more money , perhaps . |
| 21 | Having laid the groundwork of his interest , the politician had to be ready when election time rolled around again , and at that point an incumbent who could re-apply to constituents whom he had frequent occasion to meet , and ask them for a continuation of their friendship , without suggesting for a moment that any of them had a duty to support him in recognition of an implied bargain for past favours , was in a far stronger position than a man whose only contacts with his constituents took the form of patronage letters . |
| 22 | So deeply ingrained is our instinct to search for a pattern that we refuse to accept any input as genuinely random . |
| 23 | There is no point in engaging in scaremongering about a matter that is well in hand . |
| 24 | I think we also need to recognise that there has also been a er , high level of er , commitment from er , officers employed by this council to achieving the changes that we have asked in terms of financial management , now I 'm not going to pretend for a moment that er , we 've gone all the way there yet . |
| 25 | The tiger-stripe silk velvet seats on Queen Anne walnut chairs , the leopard carpet , and the monumental tusks of elephants Winston bagged before the war and which now dominate the hall all combine for an effect that is whimsical rather than opulent . |
| 26 | One peasant walked 15 versts to get Yakovlev to act on a building designated for a school that was still occupied by an influential peasant . |
| 27 | It represents an instinctive knowledge ( a " kynde knowynge " ) acquired by trial and error of how to maintain an inner balance , and reason 's active initiative ends here , giving way to a new kind of knowledge of God experienced as a gift that discretion enables man to receive . |
| 28 | My mother argued for a while that the dry heat was known to be bracing , but Lili went on to speak of rumours of a cholera epidemic in the rural districts and disaffection among the fellahin and I said I would rather go to Bournemouth , which was a black lie but efficacious since we had gone there for our holidays and my mother seemed gratified that I should wish to return . |
| 29 | Herodotus , the Greek , claimed that the Etruscans who held the centre of Italy had migrated from the Middle East , while another Greek , Dionysius of Halicarnassus , argued for a lineage that was home-spun , the Etruscan having evolved from tribes that were contemporaries of the Golasecca people . |
| 30 | Lori seemed to shudder right through to her very bones ; then it was as if she had shaken off a darkness that had possessed her for too long . |