Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother would often phone up around 5 am when I lived near her , and demand that I come over and cook her dinner . |
| 2 | For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time . |
| 3 | He asks that I go secretly and after dark — near the eleventh hour , he says — thus to evade the guards who are wont to fall asleep at that time ! ’ |
| 4 | It 's , certainly erm well attended , there 's , you know thousands of people attend and basically it centres around erm , a fire , Beltane means erm , sacred fire and erm a procession of drummers leads me to top of a path and along Carlfa , Carlton Hill and erm fire sculptures are lit around me and I unfo ha have this great costume that I unfold in and erm process round the hill and round hill are different performers erm painted in different colours to represent different elements of nature , and finally we come to this big fire where which I light with hands , which have been sculpted and bannocks are given to the people to eat , and erm the tradition that you 're supposed to cross the fire as a sort of a erm purification ceremony or or through the ashes of the fire . |
| 5 | I was so surprised to see Ken , so relieved , that I rushed over and gave him a kiss . |
| 6 | Well , see these are the ones that I sent in and I did n't think they would , they would agree with because they were duplicates unless they found the original . |
| 7 | It was after I had been deep in thought for a long time , stooped forward , that I looked up and saw Adrar , like the celestial city , its towers and palms floating on the mirage of a lake . |
| 8 | But the prospect of even more income from the delivery , made it all the more imperative that I got on and off Fraxilly safely . |
| 9 | That had changed tremendously , so easy it was to get into the country , that I went in and out of the border about three times , because having got into Yugoslavia , I realized I had some Italian currency , so I drove out again , spent my Italian currency , and drove back again . |
| 10 | I mean there are certain things like , the general conditioners to benefit , which erm , are alright , but there are other things that I know about and that I will pass on to people to look out for that I would n't want eh , that you would n't want eh , erm , outsiders to know . |
| 11 | Erm , I have children of my own , that I had naturally and I said yes , but with reservation because erm I I 've often wondered in the case of a handicapped baby er , that was born to a surrogate mother and the surrogate mother wanted to keep it simply because it was handicapped , or if she knew she was gon na have a handicapped baby the amniocentesis test and if she wanted to abort the baby but the mother-in-waiting did n't who would decide ? |
| 12 | I was so exhausted that I lay down and went to sleep . |
| 13 | I 've just asked him about the collaborative review the focus is apparently on national curriculum so that means maths , English and , but they want to look ge more general issues and because they 're in on a Wens Tuesday and a Wednesday he said that they would go in a look at , three of them would go in a look at taught tutorial lessons they will want to talk to me about the tutorial programme I would hope that that would involve somebody else cos I 've got the bit of the fence that I sit on and ask one or two of you to give your opinion if , if you 're available . |
| 14 | He 's got the hearing aid out and unfortunately he did n't hear the President call motion three eight one , and in view of that I jumped in and formally moved it to erm save the motion falling and I would ask you with your indulgence , if John could come along and move motion three eight one . |
| 15 | She looked so utterly pathetic that I bent down and comforted her silently , stroking her hair , kissing her face . |
| 16 | Nonetheless I am pleased that I did so and grateful to the SOED-sponsored grant scheme for assistance . |
| 17 | It pumps me so full of adrenalin that I pace in and out of duty-free shops , toilets , coffee shops , anything . |
| 18 | I mean I 've no doubt that my health suffered as a result of the the conditions that I worked under and I think |
| 19 | I never work because it was a small workshop that I worked in and in the south side where I belonged , there was an awful lot of Polish people and Jews and they had all these wee furniture places and they made up There was quite a community you know , they were had wee workshops and cabinet makers and my boss was a Latvian . |
| 20 | The story , of course , was a happy ending , that she struggled on and she did it . |
| 21 | And the little old girl he says , you got ta bear in mind , he said she 's only nine he said so she ca n't do none of that she come up and she could get her leg up , she went like this ! |
| 22 | He hesitated , then grabbed her wrist and twisted it so that she screamed again and the knife dropped . |
| 23 | They were singing ‘ Forty Years On ’ as a duet , which surprised her so much that she stepped backwards and trod on the toe of the cross young man with whom she had collided that afternoon . |
| 24 | One night she dreamed that she got up and went to the lavatory , where she found a new , neatly typed notice fixed over the bowl . |
| 25 | Once she tells us that she woke up and then that she prepared breakfast , we assume certain facts : that she got out of bed , for example . |
| 26 | No , she said that she came up and asked you if you wan na go out with Emma |
| 27 | She ambled down roads and along paths that she knew well and she failed to record what she saw . |
| 28 | Theodora leant back in her chair and stretched , the confines of her office dictating that she extended up and not backwards . |
| 29 | She led Midnight to a clear patch and then let him walk on the long rein , so that she stayed still and he walked round her in a circle at the end of the rein . |
| 30 | On all points we found that she tracked accurately and remained beautifully balanced . |