Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cancer has taught me that life is n't a dress rehearsal , this is it and you only get the one chance . |
| 2 | I am glad that my hon. Friend has given us that opportunity . |
| 3 | They might be the nicest person , but prison has made me that way . |
| 4 | The car has made it that way and it would be almost impossible for public transport to knit it together in the way that the railways did in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | This trip up country has been most valuable , and has convinced me that reconstruction must be our theme more than politics . |
| 6 | It has surprised me that Monsieur has not spoken out before now . ’ |
| 7 | Ms Hurst , who works at Unilever 's environmental engineering department in Port Sunlight , Wirral , said : ‘ The family has told me that Berend is making great strides towards a full recovery . |
| 8 | A Saga Holidays spokeswoman has told us that Saga contracted rooms with the Roman Hotel a year ago for this season . |
| 9 | And now the stroke has affected him that way . |
| 10 | Can I announce that the C E C has informed me that motion eighty four Lancashire Region due for debate on Wednesday afternoon has been withdrawn . |
| 11 | Ever since he 'd given her that power of attorney she 'd been getting above herself . |
| 12 | Well he thought your dad was buying that mould from Jim so he did say that , he , he 'd lent him that book on how to actually build them , but that 's |
| 13 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 14 | I mean if if you 'd told you that dad was coming down which |
| 15 | His voice was deep and soft with memories , so that she felt her heart dip , then beat crazily as she remembered the last time she 'd been involved in his research , when he 'd kissed her that morning . |
| 16 | I was pleased as punch when yer farvver came 'ome an' told me Joe Maitland 'ad offered 'im that job . |
| 17 | ‘ Goodness , Mother , ’ said Margaret Seymour-Strachey , ‘ what can have given you that idea ? ’ |
| 18 | Having , having booked it that morning |
| 19 | In the social dialectology carried out in Belfast , however , quantification was necessary : if it had been possible to do the work without quantifying , we would have done it that way ! |
| 20 | And probably he would have found the Whistler more understandable than the pop star whose gyrations would surely have convinced him that man was in the grip of his final , manic St Vitus 's dance . |
| 21 | Who could ever have told her that love could be this good ? |
| 22 | Reason should have told me that instant acceptance was too much to ask , but I was overwhelmed by my emotional need for an endorsement , however small , of my situation . |
| 23 | I should have told you that snot comes out of your nose ? ’ |
| 24 | And this is a , should have drawn it that way round , |
| 25 | He would n't have had it that way . |
| 26 | ’ You might at least have sold them that information , ’ I snarled . |
| 27 | A little foresight might have shown them that spending less on early hospitality and a bit more on the venue would have saved them time , money and trouble overall . |
| 28 | He gave vent to his anger and lambasted the shipping manager for not having alerted him that Clarion Call was overdue . |
| 29 | I thought the maid must have left it that way . |
| 30 | ‘ You should never have sent him that valentine . ’ |