Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly you have been influenced by the examples of masochism in the book , a term I coined to define that particular perversion . |
| 2 | No wonder he liked to joke that ‘ oil , Jews , and Germans ’ were ‘ Romania 's best exports ’ . |
| 3 | It 's a pity it had to happen that way . |
| 4 | Adams ' simple philosophy is also applied to the equipment he uses to get that gritty , hard edged sound . |
| 5 | And Madam , I 'd also ask you to say that to him to pay compensation for the minor injuries she 's suf she 's suffered and of course you have to consider that 's a point in a case involving assault , would be to add insult to injury , and would not assist the parties in coming to terms with their relationship and hopefully attempting a reconciliation . |
| 6 | [ There was discrimination ] not directly , but in subtle ways , like when you 're choosing your options , no matter what you 're doing there 's always a group where you can do cookery or needlework , but if you 're doing physics you have to put that down , and that means that you ca n't do something else that you might want to do , like history or something ; you 've got to make a positive choice to do science whereas it 's quite easy to drift into doing history and things like that . |
| 7 | Right what we want to find is how steep is the the hill we want to find that angle . |
| 8 | Anyway , for the moment we have to make that assumption . |
| 9 | As I said , spring ninety four is gon na be the latest date for the site we want to start that phase as early as possible so that we can then get onto to the other phase as early as possible because we obviously do n't particularly want to wait until nineteen ninety five ninety six to , to finish the whole thing . |
| 10 | If there 's a story behind the picture we want to know that too . |
| 11 | There was something of importance he wished to say that would affect them all . |
| 12 | ‘ There was this group unity we had to have that I felt lost in and I did n't really relate to . |
| 13 | ‘ When I phone to speak to a person I like to hear that person at the other end . |
| 14 | ‘ You certainly know how to charm a girl , ’ she bounced back at him , and caught his laughing expression full-on , and while her heart danced a merry jig she had to accept that , for the moment , she could forget all about the barely started upon list of questions she had lined up . |
| 15 | This is legitimate if we are tracing the evolution of contemporary attitudes to religion , or studying the history of ideas ; but if we wish to regain an impression of eighteenth century people as a whole we need to recall that , even among educated men ( themselves a very small minority ) , intellects cast in the mould of David Hume and Tom Paine were exceedingly rare , however great their later influence may have been . |
| 16 | Looking back on the scant evidence we have to assume that , along with the guilty , some innocent men and women went to their deaths , despite their confessions . |
| 17 | The 1979 Conservative election manifesto claimed : ‘ The balance of our society has been increasingly tilted in favour of the state at the expense of individual freedom … this election may be the last chance we have to reverse that process . ’ |
| 18 | A few years ago I saw a couple of Eastenders stars come in erm and Ross whatever his name forget his name there were two young girls standing in front of me scraping pennies out of their purse to get in though we loved that character they wanted to come that night we 've got to get girls like that youngsters like that interested to come on other nights and then come again that 's what needs doing . . |
| 19 | ‘ On the rare occasion he bothers to leave that damn hotel — sorry , but you know what I mean — he just wants to drink himself into a stupor . |
| 20 | But after a while he began to accept that what I told him must be true . |
| 21 | The first one came back : ‘ Did the police inspector you talked to confirm that ? ’ |
| 22 | But we if we used a tin of bully beef we had to supply that tin of bully beef out of our own seven and six pence . |
| 23 | I 'm sure you 'll be surprised to discover that the man you tried to shoot that night at Meltham House was n't Mr Churchill . ’ |
| 24 | As a human being I had to respect that . |
| 25 | In this book I hope to show that behaviour scientists interested in what people say can talk to those observers who prefer the voyeurism of much contemporary human study . |
| 26 | With a glimmer of self-preservation I began to reason that to be a martyr to an unwanted marriage was one thing , whereas to look like a fool in the eyes of all the world was another . |
| 27 | By an ‘ ethical a priori ’ position I mean to indicate that certain principles are held to be an a priori and not subject to qualification . |
| 28 | ‘ For the past five years we have been working hard to turn the London International Book Fair into a major event in the publishing calendar , rather than just another exhibition , and I think this year we managed to achieve that aim , ’ reflected LIBF director Brian Bradford at the end of the 22nd fair . |
| 29 | Studio 81 manageress Lynne Brereton said : ’ Last year we took over 500 portraits and this year we hope to exceed that total . ’ |
| 30 | Mr Clark 's job is to cut the government 's £50 billion deficit and one way he plans to do that is to spread VAT around more widely . |