Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The toy that I remember lasting for quite a long time was a beautifully made wooden engine with its tender and two trucks . |
| 2 | I said that I feared going down the road of different regional governments having different tax rates . |
| 3 | I could not believe my eyes as every film , one after the other , that I lifted dripping from the hypo , was totally and absolutely blank . |
| 4 | It was just that I dislike going off half-cocked , talking too much about a project before I can see where it 's leading . ’ |
| 5 | Well there 's that green and grey thing that I keep passing onto |
| 6 | Another reason is that I thought writing in it might be like having someone to talk to , and if I read it back later it would be like someone talking to me . |
| 7 | ‘ Now Marguerite will think that I came running to you to beg to go home . |
| 8 | It was a gradual thing , assisted by the fact that I went training on Sunday mornings . |
| 9 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 10 | I must have mentioned how expensive my activities were becoming , because Suzy suggested that I tried applying for a grant . |
| 11 | I stopped going to school when I was thirteen getting on fourteen , and it was then that I started getting into trouble , running away from home and thieving . |
| 12 | It was after Mother left that I started thinking like that . " |
| 13 | It was about then [ three years ago ] that I started going with some of my mates like Kevin(10) and Eddie(6) … and Eddie and me we got into a lot of fights and that … and the fucking coppers — they always grab either him or me when there 's any bother or that . |
| 14 | It 's generally agreed that I need looking after . |
| 15 | The union then supported me further when I got another job and was a steward there , a branch secretary a district committee member and then on the regional committee and they also helped to put me through polytechnic and into the job that I did looking at mergers at the University of Warwick . |
| 16 | I told my GP that I intended going to Bristol as soon as I was well enough . |
| 17 | And when I had put these into a plastic bag that I found lying beside them under the dressing-table , I put my hand on her shoulder , about to shake her . |
| 18 | First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child . |
| 19 | As I sat there , I realized that I disliked sitting beside this girl very much indeed . |
| 20 | The women 's stories and miseries haunted her , filled her dreams ; the desperation of their situations made Carolyn herself feel trapped and frantic , so that she dreaded going to the Refuge and was tongue-tied when her help was most needed . |
| 21 | Only gradually did it emerge that she was rather a miniature whirlwind , perhaps an inch shorter even than Charlotte , but so slender that she escaped looking like a pocket edition . |
| 22 | She was carrying a bag of shopping that she kept moving from one hand to the other . |
| 23 | The only thing he knew for certain was that the law forbade the Trunchbull to hit him with the riding-crop that she kept smacking against her thigh . |
| 24 | Jinny was so amazed that she stopped speaking in the middle of a sentence and let him say goodbye and make their apologies all over again . |
| 25 | It was only when she was deprived of her and was frantic with worry that she started behaving in an irresponsible way towards society . |
| 26 | With no food and only a couple of bottles of Lucozade in the car , she knew that if the delay lasted much longer , her blood glucose could fall to such a dangerously low level , that she risked slipping into a diabetic coma . |
| 27 | And viewers will be pleased to know that she intends returning to our screens after a short spell of maternity leave . |
| 28 | All that happens is that you keep bouncing off it , and in the end you just get hurt ! ’ |
| 29 | During the week , we suggest that you go shopping after breakfast or lunch , or perhaps after your evening meal . |
| 30 | Mummy anyway , you know that you enjoyed looking at The Bounty ? |