Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For you must really endeavour to get ahead with your composition , and that you can do if you have in readiness copies of symphonies and divertimenti to present to a Prince or to some other patron … the divertimenti can be copied very quickly , even though it is true that yours have a number of parts and are rather long … |
| 2 | I would begin Spanish now just to reassure myself that I expected a future in which I could pick up past threads . |
| 3 | It was then that I experienced a side of Max that I had not known before : he was most caring and attentive , almost maternal , getting doctors and nurses , staying with me and looking after me in every way . |
| 4 | I know that I laughed a lot , and that Will said it was a stupid play , with not a word of poetry in it . |
| 5 | When I went to the Royal Courts of Justice , the judge knew what he was going to give me , and I got three years ' probation , on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year and that I attend a day centre . |
| 6 | But it was not until three mornings later that I spotted a horse and cart arrive . |
| 7 | Er I mean , you will know that I wrote a book called No time for Ostriches in when I was on the back benches , in favour of work fare . |
| 8 | It was at about that time that I wrote a paper entitled — I hoped provocatively — ‘ What should a biochemistry of learning and memory be about ? ’ |
| 9 | The weather then turned very cold , so cold in fact , that I installed a heater to warm the water up . |
| 10 | ‘ I ca n't say that I remember a case . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I suppose now that you 've dragged it out of Edna , I shall have to say that I remember a man and my mother in a yellow frock looking unusually pretty and being angry that they would n't take any notice of me when I tried to get their attention . |
| 12 | If I said to John and Joanne erm that I saw a boy running up the ginnel no you understand ? |
| 13 | I thought once or twice that I saw a glint of sardonic amusement in Conchis 's eyes , but I could n't be sure . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought , ’ Phillis said , ‘ that I saw a shadow . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And that I bring a friend . ’ |
| 16 | It was in this splendid fifteenth-century monument to the high architectural taste of the Catholic sovereigns that I read a message written by a fifteenth-century schoolboy on his classroom wall : Aquí supo lo que es bueno , y lo que es malo , / Lo que es dulce , y lo que es amaro ( Here I had knowledge of what is good , and of what is bad , / Of what is sweet , and of what is bitter ) . |
| 17 | Alec Reid picked me up sharp at six , and gave an approving glance at my clean shirt , spotless white trousers ( bought off the peg in Sydney ) and the fact that I wore a tie . |
| 18 | Perhaps you know that I married a man who was very cruel to me . |
| 19 | Erm the only reason this is an issue that I get a cooking for as Research Process Manager anyway , as Audit Manager I need to have other booking forms , and the only booking forms and additional booking forms I need are all jobs which then got to Mrs which are the so I ask please make amendment to put Audit Manager in and I do n't think we need to specify . |
| 20 | Course Helena Mrs Hold My Drink , not that I get a hangover every single time or anything . |
| 21 | Well I understand that I mean a lot of people do that . |
| 22 | Well thing is that I mean a lot of these jobs , I mean er yeah they recognize that , I mean a lot of them yo they think you 're as thick as shit and treat you like you 're as thick as shit just because you 're doing a thick as shit job but you know they ca n't necessarily give you more |
| 23 | I just recall that I got a bit of a shock when I heard they found him on MOD property . |
| 24 | It turned out that on stage I would wear a loin-cloth and brown make-up , so that I resembled a turd in a bikini-bottom . |
| 25 | I ca n't say that I keep a distance , because I do n't . |
| 26 | The point is that I made a mistake — oh , I do have a feeling for him , that helped to confuse the issue , we do like one another — what I have come to see is that my falling for Lewis was not what I took it to be . ’ |
| 27 | I 've spent the night thinking about everything that happened , and I now realise that I made a mistake about you being involved with Harry Martin . ’ |
| 28 | Erm the other parts that I made a note of , you did n't ac well you Steve said the wife will be back in an hour and a half erm you did n't pick up Bill any , anything on that at that stage as to whether she ought to be involved although when he started talking or when he could n't remember the , the names of the or dates of birth of the children , he remembered the names , the dates of birth of the children , you mentioned the fact then that the wife would be back in a in an hour |
| 29 | And it was in me thoughts that I bred a bunch of punch-drunk pansies who could n't use their heads or , for that matter , any other part of their make-up , 'cept their fists . |
| 30 | Since I refused to acknowledge that I understood a word of Czech or German , I just shrugged my shoulders as they droned on . |