Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not saying that nothing belongs any more — like those pictures , this . ’ |
| 2 | Miles of sugar cane , followed by miles of flat desert country , all seen through a damp haze so that nothing seemed real . |
| 3 | Gandalf 's harshness represents denial of Utopias and insistence that nothing comes free . |
| 4 | After years of abusing students , minsters are clearly now hoping that nothing washes whiter than a government 's attempt to get re-elected . |
| 5 | I 'm not sure whether it 's a good thing that everyone does that . |
| 6 | Training all technicians throughout the country was an onerous task , but Sandra Hannington , Caroline Mytton and Anthony Dracott ensured that everyone received personal tuition , and the day that the various branches ‘ went live ’ the skills were all put to use . |
| 7 | She had occasional epileptic fits after the first , and they so frightened Rose and her family that everyone became over-protective of her . |
| 8 | So , in the meantime , I 'll just see how dreadful a time I can have , so that everyone feels sorry for me and I can avoid taking responsibility for my life ! ’ |
| 9 | Am I so negligible , she asked herself indignantly , that everyone feels this compulsion to speak for me ? |
| 10 | The problem is , however , that it is of little help in producing a list of user needs : the temptation would be to say either that everyone requires the same information or that everyone requires different information ; the former would make the exercise redundant and the latter would make it impossible to handle . |
| 11 | This meant that everyone lived near to one another , and they copied each other exactly . |
| 12 | Remember , though , that everyone makes more mistakes in copying than in original writing , so you may end up with more errors in the rewritten piece than in the original . |
| 13 | The job that everyone considered bad was in the workroom , which was my absolute dread . |
| 14 | Patients in and around Exeter can use the cards to present to doctors , dentists and hospitals so that everyone has easy access to their medical history . |
| 15 | Traditional building materials such as mud will have a role to play only when the national objective is to ensure that everyone has better housing now . |
| 16 | For example , all that is physically necessary as regards food is to make sure that everyone has enough of the right sort . |
| 17 | May the Lord use us to ensure that everyone has enough to eat . |
| 18 | Yet we now know that everyone has promiscuous sexual fantasies all the time . |
| 19 | The chairman will also have to organize the panel during the interview , making sure that everyone has sufficient time to ask their questions but without allowing the process to get out of hand and overrun . |
| 20 | Did you know that everyone dies young ? |
| 21 | She knew nothing of the future other than that it was an inhospitable fog that no-one had any choice but to enter , but she was certain that there was a scene all laid-out and waiting for her where she brought in the name of the man — or woman — who 'd first talked to Chrissie and then run her down . |
| 22 | I take it that no-one claims exclusive rights in this field . |
| 23 | It was only when I was 26 that I realised that was possible |
| 24 | ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped . |
| 25 | Not that I expected any . |
| 26 | ‘ I said that I liked to give the islanders the impression that I lived alone . ’ |
| 27 | Nibbles is an interesting one that I played one night and I was going cor ! |
| 28 | It was at Seto More 's house on Jervis Street that I experienced Chinese hospitality at first hand . |
| 29 | I had to share Miss Miller 's , but I was so tired that I fell asleep immediately . |
| 30 | One night I was so tired that I fell asleep when he was still pushing in and out of me . |