Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of people that I hear saying things such as I do n't remember stepping over people in the street five years ago and it 's true , in this city I do n't actually remember doing that , not with the frequency with which it happens today and your government and your party has no record to shout about , absolutely none . |
| 2 | I have placed in the Library a copy of the letter that I wrote explaining the issues in great detail . |
| 3 | The toy that I remember lasting for quite a long time was a beautifully made wooden engine with its tender and two trucks . |
| 4 | He argued that I can not know that my diary is in the ( closed ) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable ; we can suppose , perhaps , that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since , together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the experienced world . |
| 5 | She did n't go out drinking or dancing ; she did n't do as one mother she 'd known ( in a story of maternal neglect that I remember feeling was over the top at the time ) and tie a piece of string round my big toe , dangle it through the window and down the front of the house , so that the drunken mother , returning from her carousing , could tug at it , wake the child , get the front door opened and send it down the shop for a basin of pie and peas . |
| 6 | T trying to simplify multiplication because that I remember starting multiplication , |
| 7 | Beginning by a fantastic attempt to construct pedigrees where sons were their own fathers , I became gradually so involved that I remember wondering if God the Father were in truth only the child that grew up into Jesus Christ . |
| 8 | There 's the firstly that of young children , and it 's something that I remember putting a motion to in the last administration about a creche or whatever or looking into this facility , in the fact of erm , trying to encourage more people with young families to erm , actually get involved in local government and politics . |
| 9 | Those were the first guitars that I remember going : ‘ Wow , that 's a guitar ! ’ |
| 10 | You seem to be under the misapprehension that I intend making love to you . ’ |
| 11 | It was her face chiefly that I saw brightening and fading away in my mind 's eye . |
| 12 | Well okay , I need to say that when it 's long reports I have no problem , I mean since I 've lost Doreen and come under Tracey the quality and speed that I get typing back is much improved . |
| 13 | I said that I feared going down the road of different regional governments having different tax rates . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was just that I dislike going off half-cocked , talking too much about a project before I can see where it 's leading . ’ |
| 16 | Though the voice was larded with the tones owed to ‘ land in the family ’ , the man himself was decent , polite , unpretentious , and unpatronising throughout the half hour or so that I spent photographing him . |
| 17 | It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw . |
| 18 | You paying me in 'and , and Dennis is paying me in 'and and I 'll a er , thousand pound a week , the way that I keep getting these job offers . |
| 19 | Normally , I would n't care two hoots , but having come home unexpectedly , and with the thought of our marriage dazzling me , I 'm so happy that I keep expecting some obstacle to turn up . |
| 20 | Well there 's that green and grey thing that I keep passing onto |
| 21 | So today I 'm going to talk about notions of structure or about sentence structure and logical form , so point one a reminder something that I keep saying , knowledge of language is knowledge of a bod a body of rules that assign phonological , syntactic and semantic properties to words and sentences . |
| 22 | You see there 's a general principle there is quite a lot of information in that cupboard that I keep saying 's there , have a look and as we get stuff |
| 23 | I think regarding the number of people who are in prison , whether on remand or otherwise , erm , reminds me of something that that I keep noticing , either hear it on the radio or in the paper . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Now Marguerite will think that I came running to you to beg to go home . |
| 26 | It was a gradual thing , assisted by the fact that I went training on Sunday mornings . |
| 27 | One has to try and explain what it is we are about and why we 're doing it and , if necessary , perhaps point out a few distinctions that may exist , for instance , between the professional and the amateur scene , not that I like using those words because I think they 're fraught with all sort of potential misunderstandings . |
| 28 | That 's why I 'm so thankful that I 'm on the reading and that I like sewing , I like walking and I 've made some very nice friends within easy walking distance , I can go out and have a coffee with them , because I , while I 'm recovering from the agony 's of from the finance |
| 29 | Not that I like walking around with music blasting anyway , I 'd rather listen to the birds . |
| 30 | But it got to the stage that I dreaded seeing Mr B 's smiling face in the press box at Blues games , as it was sure to mean another gloom and doom match report in the ‘ Ulster ’ that night . |