Citations:that

English citations of that

Conjunction: "so, so that"

• 1810, Thomas Williams, Sermons on Important Subjects, page 28:

  to enquire what was necessary to be done, that sinners might be saved

• (Can we date this quote?), William Cullen Bryant, Christmas in 1875:

  The life-blood of the slain / Poured out where thousands die that one may reign.

Conjunction: "seeing as, inasmuch as, given that"

• 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.:

  Are God and Nature then at strife, / That Nature lends such evil dreams?

Determiner: "the indicated (one)"

• 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

  Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.

Pronoun: demonstrative pronoun, "the thing, quality, etc indicated or understood"

• 2003, Jo-Ann Mapson, Along Came Mary: A Bad Girl Creek Novel →ISBN, page 161:

  That’s lesbians for you[:] practical, no frills.

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• 1817, Trial of Andrew McKinley for administering unlawful oaths, A. D. 1817, reported by Thomas Jones Howell in A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings (1826), volume XXXIII, page 606:

  Was Simpson there? — Never that I saw.