Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [pers pn] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had suddenly occurred to her that he probably had a family , a wife . |
| 2 | My failure to even get interviewed soon demonstrated to me that , even though Goldsmiths had accepted me despite my disability , I would have to fight very hard to get any further . |
| 3 | It just occurred to me that Tuesday would be another opportunity to talk to Julian , the guy who comes in and does the S U legal aid stuff . |
| 4 | He had already seen to it that fodder had been stored in stone-built barns situated at strategic points on lower pastures . |
| 5 | Which just came to me that moment . |
| 6 | I 've just seen to it that . |
| 7 | Erm , I 'll have some brochures going around , some leaflets going round just advertizing what we do but if , I 'd like to just mention to you that erm , there are other , other treatments that we do , of course , at the salon . |
| 8 | I would like , Chairman , to know , because er , it always seems to me that unnecessary money is spent in , in the American lead , so it 's difficult to get any money . |
| 9 | An American once said to me that British Midland 's habit of giving out boiled sweets before take off was a ‘ quaint gesture ’ . |
| 10 | Only if it had been clearly demonstrated to me that trust status would involve a positive move in that direction would I allow such status to be assumed . |
| 11 | It was also indicated to them that while on the grade they would perform a limited range of duties as defined in a list which was published at that time . |
| 12 | But they also prove to me that television is capable of handling myth and that , in confining the medium largely to information and ephemeral diversion , we underestimate its aesthetic potential.M.B . |
| 13 | And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions . |
| 14 | To Arnold the term philistine implied the idea of something stiff-necked and perverse in its resistance to light — ‘ and therein it specially suits our middle class , who not only do not pursue sweetness and light , but who even prefer to them that sort of machinery of business , chapels , tea-meetings and addresses from Mr Murphy , which makes up the dismal and illiberal life on which I have so often touched ’ . |
| 15 | It sometimes seemed to me that animal rights must always prevail over every other claim , however strong , including claims from the environment . |
| 16 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 17 | At one point we read Pip 's story and what actually happens to him that day and then the older Pip reflects on the younger Pip 's actions . |