Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm , and erm , I do n't know that I ever did this , but I never heard anybody heard anybody walking the street , whistling the National Anthem . |
| 2 | ‘ It upsets me that I still have this ‘ enfant terrible ’ reputation . |
| 3 | ‘ It is not true that I only play this game for money . |
| 4 | That I correctly interpreted this is strongly suggested by the fact that she was not surprised by my answer which was to stop what I was doing , go out with her , and set about trying to free the cat . |
| 5 | That I correctly interpreted this is strongly suggested by the fact that she was not surprised by my answer — which was to stop what I was doing , go out with her , and set about trying to free the cat . |
| 6 | Being a mere composite from charnel houses , I fear that I alone undergo this sorrow behind the eyebrows . |
| 7 | I unashamedly admit that I sometimes use this song as a form of social control . |
| 8 | Helen amused herself with the pretence that she always lived this way . |
| 9 | Naturally she pointed out that she never sought this adulation , quite the opposite , and was frankly horrified by media attention . |
| 10 | The SLORC had repeatedly offered her freedom on condition that she went into exile , but Aris said that she never discussed this " because she says that it is not negotiable " . |
| 11 | Erm , but I think that we also think this is in an in the state of philosophy nowadays . |
| 12 | Vanity and a nod towards Alan Meale compel that we also include this : A short-sighted scribbler called Amos ; Recorded the gaffes of the famous ; And if ever his column ; Becomes faintly solemn ; He 'll be sacked on the spot ( who would blame us ) ? |
| 13 | The most curious thing is that we actually esteem this sort of thinking and consider it clever instead of facile . |
| 14 | Erm and these are the fairly brief er Chairman I think , I am sorry for disappointing Mr because because erm I main properties but erm we are basically I think sort of more or less agreed parties that we actually want this . |
| 15 | What organizing principles must the cells have so that they reliably give this pattern , even when the cells are rearranged and the length of the line varies ? |
| 16 | Horses like to be caressed , stroked , and scratched ; to the extent that they frequently provide this mutual scratching service for each other . |
| 17 | Leaving aside the question of how such a perfect and whole symbiotic relationship could have ever evolved , Darwinian-style and piecemeal , out of ‘ random fluctuations in the DNA of wasp and orchid ’ , we are left with the interesting observation that the mind structure , or instinct , of the wasp is organized in such a way that it instinctively seeks this particular shape , for the purposes of fulfilling its urge to mate . |
| 18 | It has to be said that he also invoked this oath against his barons when it suited him to do so , as in 1301 : it served against the laity no less than against the clergy . |
| 19 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 20 | To have asked him to be a godfather had crossed my mind ; but I knew that he already held this office in plurality . |
| 21 | THE STUDENT The student must make sure he understands what is required of him at every point — what the tone marks mean , what basic attitude the tone group reflects — and it is important that he always keeps this in mind . |
| 22 | I know that he recently considered this matter at a meeting with the northern TECs , but will he further consider the plight of some regions where costs are slightly higher than in , say , the south-east ? |
| 23 | I thought that Basil appreciated more than most the essential magic of the child 's experience of the world and the expression of this in art — not that he ever said this , but his own manner as a teacher always implied that this was a special , essentially elevated kind of activity — but one in which everyone had the capacity to join . |
| 24 | It is possible that the subject retained a single letter in the form of a visual representation of the acoustic stimulus and that he subsequently matched this representation against the visually presented probe stimulus . |
| 25 | But I am not convinced that he truly stays this extra five furlongs , and BURGOYNE will stretch his stamina to the limit . |