Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die .
2 Do you want me to stop that mum ?
3 Do you want me to open that tin of fruit ?
4 No ! he would shout , and make it clear that we would not discuss it … he used an expletive that I have not used , indicating that he did not want me to raise that subject with him . ’
5 Bernard Whim , technical marketing manager in the solvents marketing department at ICI Chlor-Chemicals , said that ‘ we are encouraging them to understand that carbon tet is being withdrawn and that their customers should find alternatives .
6 How you start your day could even depend on how Dickens causes you to feel that morning in that particular part of the book .
7 Today I want you to turn that corner and change from a feeling of ‘ I 'm never going to do it ’ to ‘ I will do it ’ .
8 The difficulty we have with both this scheme and the others that er you 'll come to in a moment is that there are always people who want you to go that bit further .
9 ‘ I want you to take that money from Bella 's house . ’
10 Then he said , we wou want you to do that work he said , because you 've got a good reputation .
11 ‘ I want you to feel that way about me .
12 In fact what we 'll do is , we 'll stop after we 've done this and then your books , I want you to get that diagram down and spirograph down .
13 I want you to have that money as much as you do .
14 Now I want you to place that rock of yours in the centre of my circle . ’
15 Sadly he rejected this dual instruction and was lost on a low-level marking attack that , had Cochrane been aware that Gibson was not checked out at Warboys , his AOC would have forbidden him to fly that night .
16 I want him to investigate that vent for any sign that someone might have used it to escape . ’
17 I want her to park that car over there .
18 I urge her to recognise that union without further delay .
19 Her face went blank , but this time Guy saw the effort it cost her to regain that air of remote calm , and her eyes still held a mute appeal that stabbed him to the heart .
20 ‘ And you want it to remain that way ? ’
21 And I want it to stay that way .
22 You were his victim ; he wants it to stay that way .
23 He rang the hospital and told them to stop that man sending letters .
24 Ethics do have a place in the boardroom , and our employees , er employees in I B M , would expect them to have that place .
25 The field ‘ Split-type working ’ allows you to specify that Primary and Secondary copies must be stored on different media types .
26 The field ‘ Simultaneous media copies ’ allows you to specify that Primary and Secondary copies may not be mounted simultaneously .
27 Consciousness you raise through your sexuality allows you to enter that non-reality and use it .
28 The attorney agreed with Haydon about the injustice of the proceedings , and told him to return that evening to settle the matter finally .
29 Then something , a movement to her right , caused her to turn that way .
30 What on earth had possessed her to volunteer that information ? she wondered numbly .
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