Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And it is some of those shared beliefs and concerns that I intend to address this evening :
2 I declare here and now that I intend to follow that same path .
3 It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off .
4 It was so terrible that I began to feel ill .
5 It was perhaps because of this , and because I tried to foster the whole idea of positive thinking , that I began to concentrate more and more on visualization .
6 The one that I tend to use most of the time is this one not least , because it only three pounds , and it 's quite affordable but a , again , it 's got a loud sound to it , and I found that if you carry one of these with you and somebody does approach you , you 've always got this in your pocket and you can actually aim it them , cos they do n't know what you 've got in your hand .
7 This does not mean that I do not believe there are issues where principle is paramount ; but there are great many issues where principle is misguided or even hypocritical , and it is a fair accusation that I tend to suspect this more often than most people .
8 It was at this point that I left to seek medical help for fear I would split my sides .
9 I mean people do n't always agree on what evidence means ; they do n't always agree on what is the best thing to do , erm and I 've developed the idea that it 's possible to do an evaluation that I like to call divergent in the sense that there might be several different things that one might do as a result of it .
10 I says I want to listen to it , you know , I said I 've heard it with C D going through it with about four sets of speakers , but I want to listen to it through eight sets of speakers with cassette , a cassette that I like to make sure , to my type , he says I guarantee you now you will like it , he says you will like he says , he says we do a ten day er return thing , he says you buy something , he says you bring it back within ten days undamaged we 'll give you money back if you do n't like the quality of the sound , for whatever reason we 'll give you your money back .
11 No it 's just that I like to get all this out of the way .
12 I mean I I went in there yesterday , I think it was , or this morning erm he put wet shirts into the wardrobe admittedly with the doors open but that bedroom is not a bedroom that I like to get any dampness in at all , Brenda .
13 It was only it was only that erm you know erm when you said the sixty pen pence it was the one that was the only one that I seemed to get stuck on .
14 ‘ It was for you that I had to leave that hotel suite and not return until daylight . ’
15 And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course .
16 Something of the casual innocence of the picture may be lost when I tell you that I had to hunt this particular combination of light for two days before obtaining the shot I wanted !
17 When I reached Ostend at midday on 16th there was no ticket but only a message to the effect that I had to buy another one .
18 While I sympathize with the caller from West Calder , I feel we pay poll tax as well to cover all these things but when I bought my house , my solicitor had me in for two hours and went through all my obligations under the title deeds part of was , that I had to pay one three hundredths of keeping the open areas clean and tidy plus grass cutting .
19 The amounts of exercise I did meant that I had to eat more than my father !
20 I felt that I had to make some sort of social effort so I swung my legs off the bed and sat sheepishly on the edge .
21 It was ironic in retrospect that I had to travel half way round the globe to get to know working class men from my own back yard .
22 My contract said very clearly that I had to have complete control of the making of the film , so I asked Darryl Zanuck if he would please replace me and I would give him the necessary time to find someone else .
23 I had two , and then Gabriel was an accident , and somehow the thought that he was an accident was so insulting to me that I had to have some more , to prove that he was n't .
24 ‘ It was something that I had to experience all by myself . ’
25 So , as my array of new brushes was getting rather low , it was with interest and eagerness that I accepted to test some new brushes developed and manufactured by Pro Arte .
26 Erm , this is something that I started to use last year .
27 ‘ It 's probably only the past two or three years that I started to feel comfortable with myself .
28 I replied that I wanted a detector , not a wand to wave around , but after visiting the shop and seeing a demonstration I must admit that I started to become interested .
29 We had no Balls as such in those days , we would have a dance , and when I was entertaining any of my theatrical friends from the West End it was always Tommy that I selected to do some special entertaining — well within the reach of the station commander 's entertaining fund .
30 When I was chided by someone for seeming oblivious of ‘ the magnitude of the accounting operation ’ I said that it was because of my consciousness of the magnitude of all other operations that I dared to make these demands of Mr Whalley , who perfectly understands in any case .
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