Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know if I told you that we have acquired another cat ? |
| 2 | You say as I understand it that er the possible er use of this land as a strategic reserve is not the main reason er for excluding it from the greenbelt . |
| 3 | I realised that I needed something that was a bit more active and fairly creative , preferably something that included both sexes . |
| 4 | But it is precisely the possibility of being wrong in believing that someone loves us that makes it appropriate to talk in this context of trust . |
| 5 | It was what he would do if he caught her that worried her , Maria reflected drily . |
| 6 | I think its because erm I do n't , I 'm not happy with mine because it it shows signs of ageing and it reminds me that I 'm getting older and I do n't like that |
| 7 | What does it matter if it implies something that is n't quite true ? |
| 8 | We went on listening as she informed us that she had progressed from the easy-peasies such as Keats and Dickens to the Russian heavy brigade . |
| 9 | ‘ Privacy is a luxury you forsook when you took something that did n't belong to you . |
| 10 | ‘ She wanted to know where we all met and I told her that it was through the vibe . |
| 11 | She realised at once that he could be forgiven if he reminded her that she had n't been too sugary herself during that phone call : but he did nothing of the kind , though he did allow himself a small smirk before all trace of a smile went from him . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm old enough to be forgiven if I tell you that the news did n't sadden me . |
| 13 | Edward seemed pleased to see her , however , and as he accepted Helen 's offer of coffee , he said , ‘ Sophie — you do n't mind if I call you that , do you ? — I was going to seek you in your surgery . |
| 14 | She was the most efficient secretary he had ever had and it irked him that she had made it clear that , if and when he moved , she would wish to stay at Larksoken . |
| 15 | you know if you do something that 's twenty pages , they 'll think , bloody hell . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , after the first six or seven freebies things got a little hazy and I understand that I told everyone that Singh and his brothers ( no relation ) were indeed going to build a superstore on ‘ The Tip ’ , but that they were also going to spend £2,000,000 on a new stadium for Athletico to be built on top of Mitchley cemetery . |
| 17 | Will he take this opportunity to confirm that it is the three strands that will form the basis of any future talks , and that against that background there will always be the Anglo-Irish Agreement , until the two Governments feel that they have something that transcends it ? |
| 18 | ‘ At parties , if people ask what you 've been doing and you tell them that you 've just been around the world , it stops the conversationd ead . ’ |
| 19 | The Minister should realise that it says everything that the Government should put in no financial support for the Devon and Cornwall development company . |
| 20 | I thought if I told him that he 'd be bound to make a proper search — not in the house , I do n't mean , I 've looked in the house — but among other solicitors she might have gone to . |
| 21 | But her anger changed to fear when I told her that I was going after Duke Michael . |
| 22 | He may well have imagined when he met me that he was acquiring the means of escape from the kingdom of the past . |
| 23 | ‘ Of course I 'll come back to the Dordogne to see you , ’ Jenna promised , knowing as she said it that she could never face Alain again . |
| 24 | He silently toasted Dowd as he talked , knowing as he sipped it that there 'd be bloodshed before Christmas Day dawned . |
| 25 | Her credibility increased when she advised me that it did not really matter whether I believed in homeopathy or not . |
| 26 | I 'll do anything that you do and you do anything that I do . ’ ’ |
| 27 | In practice if you are back checking files and such like , if you find something that is current word which should comply and you find something that has n't been appropriately signed or whatever , if it 's easy to get it done yes do it yes , if it 's not easy to get it done erm , it may be , you 've got to use your judgement because I do n't want you to go into a lot of work , but it may make sense to make a final note we are aware that this was n't done correctly this person has been reminded , or |
| 28 | She saw his face changing as he remembered everything that had happened . |
| 29 | Her voice was shaking as she told me that on returning from the cinema a couple of weeks earlier she had been grabbed from behind , dragged into an alley and viciously raped at knifepoint . |
| 30 | I now turn to the adoption minutes of city hall and now it is a process of in that city hall did not endorse a recommendation from the finance panel , the budget that came from finance panel erm so we are in the slightly unusual position of having to debate the proposals of finance panel as we were recommended to do by city hall , erm that means as I understand it that er the chair of city hall will now present the annual budget statement erm and since he is going to do that in a form of an amendment er that seven other unusual features about the way in which we would normally do it which would mean that there would be er a budget statement and where there would then be the the formal proposals and amendments themself , erm so what I would propose is to try and make sure that everybody has , has maximum opportunity to have their say erm because no two amendments can be on the floor at one time er to take what the leader of the council said first of all erm then to allow the other two leaders to present their budget alternatives as it were , without it be , this is just not did n't take it at that point if they do n't want to . |