Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Graham and Russell , if anything more composed , made them defend that advantage , and the Chelsea defence responded with a disorder to which only Ken Monkou was an exception . |
| 2 | It 's paragraph seventeen , eighteen and the additional item added by Miss about a report to the April meeting on what action can be taken to implement the District Auditor 's recommendations , and from what we 've heard I think that report will also contain reference to today 's , the correct response to today 's Government four papers erm , on the policy with regard to the Rio summit . |
| 3 | No future governments of whatever political persuasion , erm er I I fear have let me begin that point again . |
| 4 | our age who 's saved up , er how d' ya qualify that price with today 's prices , cos every pound you save then , is er , is worth nowt today is it ? |
| 5 | Jo , where d' ya get that bag from ? |
| 6 | Well now what d' you think that name would mean ? |
| 7 | ‘ Where d' you learn that stuff ? ’ |
| 8 | I forgot er I have n't watched the television at all and I forgot to record what d' you call that thing ? with the devil in it ? |
| 9 | D' you remember that time that that fat boy said , save your seat you bloody cow , sit in it . |
| 10 | Yeah well let me change that bit over . |
| 11 | ‘ Let me telephone that policeman you work for . |
| 12 | Let me move that chest . |
| 13 | Let me do that Mum . |
| 14 | You let me read that story you wrote for your class magazine : The Dragon 's Mouth . |
| 15 | Let me put that question to the hundred women here , are you looking forward to Christmas ? |
| 16 | So let me put that vote to the hundred , do you think every woman has a right to have a child , or to try to have a child ? |
| 17 | ‘ Let me find that letter first , ’ said Vic , riffling blindly through the papers in his Pending-tray , playing for time . |
| 18 | which I shall not attempt to conceal from you , but before I come down to the details let me say that Darwinism occupies such a central position in evolutionary biology — in biology as a whole , not just in evolutionary biology but in the whole of biology — that any important , new idea in biology has to be , to some extent , judged by its compatibility with , or its contradictions of , the Darwinian position . |
| 19 | Let me try that hair band on . |
| 20 | Let me take that man 's place , please . ’ |
| 21 | Well let me see that stammer . |
| 22 | Let her drink that tea ! |
| 23 | Let her remember that night too ! |
| 24 | They let her keep that part of herself , though much else changed . |
| 25 | " Funny , being a bird-watcher , " a boy called Cosgrave had once said and Stephen had made him take that back , twisting his arm until he agreed to . |
| 26 | I let him sleep that night — and succeeding nights — with Montaine … . |
| 27 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 28 | I let him have that bike . ’ |
| 29 | Let it stay that way . ’ |
| 30 | The frequency of such bids has made it seem that stockmarket valuations are arbitrary , that bidders are stealing money from somebody else rather than creating wealth , and that American and British managers spend too much time shuffling assets and too little investing ( that is , building factories ) for the future . |