Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His control of all those long-arched phrases is also most praiseworthy so that nothing overheats too soon , although the peaks of phrases blossom affectionately . |
| 2 | She is amazed at the attitude of the people she meets : ‘ I thought people would be cold and uninterested , and I ca n't believe that everyone cares so much about us . ’ |
| 3 | See that no-one gets any further than the hall . |
| 4 | It was n't until I 'd bought one and used it that I realised how much it speeded up knitting . |
| 5 | Maybe I would never be able to return to the present — not that I cared just then . |
| 6 | I had about five barges to look after and you could n't see everyone — not that I cared so very much , to tell the truth . |
| 7 | I 'm taking steps to make sure that I last as long as possible . |
| 8 | Did I tell you about that song that I heard just once . |
| 9 | I apologise for the fact that I heard only about 40 minutes of the Minister of Agriculture 's speech . |
| 10 | His way of praising me was to say that I wrote as naturally as a hen laying eggs , or to remark , after he had destroyed a work with his criticisms , ‘ Everything I have not marked seems to me either good or excellent . |
| 11 | So you had to choose that er , you have to do that and the fifth thing that I wrote down here which I had to do , a sequence er , of work . |
| 12 | It is winter evenings at Eton that I remember most vividly : talking and arguing about anything and everything with friends in front of a coal fire ; sitting in my armchair with my feet up , reading a story by Buchan , Kipling or Conrad , or something by one of the African big-game hunters whose books I was already collecting . |
| 13 | The three things that I remember most clearly about Basil were , firstly , his great interest in the development of children 's powers of observation , to help them with their aesthetic expression . |
| 14 | That I remember very distinctly . |
| 15 | not that I perceived any longer if the had n't gone . |
| 16 | So it was that I set out laboriously to catalogue the very schema of my own sanity , to list exhaustively the full range of my personal habits . |
| 17 | Sir , i having listened to the discussion nearly two two days , two and a half days , it seems to me that I come very firmly with the conclusion that the A f A fifty nine , the A nineteen north and B one three six corridors are simply not practical . |
| 18 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 19 | It is an autumnal sign and one in which the ‘ balance ’ might be tipped one way or another , and in sexuality could hover between male and female , with one sexual scale dipping then the other rising obediently and almost passively , distantly , independently , in an alternation of identities and desires that I knew so well . |
| 20 | The nose and beard also seemed to imply , to produce , to secrete constantly a certain kind of mind which had nothing to do with the intelligence diffused throughout the books , books that I knew so intimately , and which were permeated by a gentle and God-like wisdom . ’ |
| 21 | Irina had the idea that I knew certainly as much of the truth behind the events as anyone and possibly more . |
| 22 | I 've been , I 've been through them all and er there 's only one or two that I 've not actually had any contact with actually one way or another . |
| 23 | ‘ It could be that I 've simply never felt strongly enough about anyone , ’ she cut in , instantly wishing the words unsaid as she realised how much they revealed about her feelings for him . |
| 24 | Doreen rose to the occasion by smiling radiantly as she said , ‘ I doubt that I 've ever really been far away from Silas — at least I know I 've always been in his thoughts . ’ |
| 25 | You know I 've got a straight navy coat that I 've hardly ever wore , I 've discovered that it 'll only cost eleven pounds fifty to have it shortened at Sketchley 's , and it 's all done . |
| 26 | It 's just that I 've never seriously thought about it before . |
| 27 | Now that I 've never ever come across that before ! |
| 28 | Cos there 's only a few that I get on really well with . |
| 29 | My understanding of the case was that I 'd not yet found a remedy to cover the fibroid as well as everything else so I chose Phosphorus LM1 from the rubric bleeding fibroids since it covered her fears and complemented the Arsenicum . |
| 30 | To test it 's authenticity I chose a dozen snails in garlic butter to start a dish that I 'd only ever eaten in Paris before . |