Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] that [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ask him to meet me that evening at the Three Pigeons . |
| 2 | She had an idea and asked him to meet her that evening at a time which allowed her to see Shildon first . |
| 3 | Apparently Robert went to see you that morning after that operation you did with Dawn to help you . |
| 4 | A lot of it is a matter of hearing : you just start to hear it that way after a while , especially if you listen to a lot of Coltrane and people who really developed that part of the language . ’ |
| 5 | I was n't proposing to do it that way for anyone 's work but my own ! |
| 6 | It was more diplomatic to put it that way for Mr Multhrop 's chef . ’ |
| 7 | I mean the point would be to give it that kind of pzazz that the young kids love so much . |
| 8 | The irony is even though the travellers have now been evicted from this field in Enstone … it will stay unused … the landowers are being paid to keep it that way as part of the Ministry of Agriculture 's Set Aside policy |
| 9 | In this leaflet we want to explain the low risks that lesbians face from HIV and how to keep it that way by practising safer sex and safer drug use . |
| 10 | The majority verdict is that Seve 's handiwork is difficult but fair , and tournament director , Andy McFee , aims to keep it that way by utilising a variety of tees , including some of the ladies ' , to strike the right balance . |
| 11 | And the slick export companies and landowners are anxious to keep it that way in order to retain total flexibility in hiring , firing and wage levels . |
| 12 | Leo had promised to ring me that evening in case there had been any news from the hospital ; and I told him my own news . |
| 13 | ‘ And was it part of my father 's plan that you make love to me to convince me that marriage to Jonathan was the wrong thing ? ’ she said angrily . |
| 14 | So please will you consider for three months out of our funds which has to be the to pay her that amount of money or else we can not cope . |
| 15 | Now , am I to take it that sort of appeal will have a very low priority , I mean , how about Oxfam for example ? |
| 16 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |
| 17 | In anomie theory the impetus that pushes people into crime is that the ambitions for status and pecuniary success that they share with everyone else are thwarted by the restrictions on the opportunities to achieve them that result from low socio-economic status . |
| 18 | You want me to go jumping out of Dorniers again at five thousand feet in the dark like last time over Ireland and you try to hand me that kind of bollocks . ’ |
| 19 | Would it not have been kinder had she pretended to be glad — since it was Christmas time , after all — when Odette had come rushing to show her that letter from her father ? |
| 20 | The following day , Dr John Greg of the Medical Research Council tried to tell us that contact with small quantities of dioxins was harmless when he stated in The Independent that 5,000 ppt is a safe level for bleached paper products . |