Example sentences of "[verb] that what [pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had once heard an Englishman say that what he knew of nuclear physics could be written on the back of a blackcurrant . |
| 2 | While recognizing that poor local economic management was partly to blame for the region 's debt crisis , the report argued that what it described as the banks ' irresponsible lending practices meant they should also share responsibility and assume greater losses . |
| 3 | And though Douglas on the surface was more generous , more giving than his sometimes taciturn elder son , Shiona recognised that what they shared in common was that fierce individuality and sense of purpose that had brought Douglas , through his own efforts , from rags to great riches . |
| 4 | ‘ I have decided that what I believed in most of my life was wrong , ’ says the famous Mr Winmill . |
| 5 | And I ca n't see that what she said to me is any of your business . ’ |
| 6 | I was told that what I did in my bedroom was a private matter . |
| 7 | Although , she reasoned realistically , if he had been fooling around behind her back it indicated that what he felt for her fell very far short of love , in which case he would probably have cancelled the wedding if she had n't . |
| 8 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that the majority of my constituents believe that what they voted for in the referendum on Europe was a single market , not a single currency ? |
| 9 | She simply did not know , although deep in her heart she feared that what she felt for Nicky Scott Wilson was not true love . |
| 10 | Innocent , virginal and as strictly moral as she was , she knew that what she felt for Lucenzo was so powerful and primeval that she would never resist him . |
| 11 | Which of course he could not — not the physical thing ; she knew that what she felt as a warmth of affection was experienced by him as a demand for that . |
| 12 | I always thought that what he lacked in defensive qualities he made up for in attacking qualities . |
| 13 | Yet , when I was seven years old , I should have thought him a very silly little boy indeed not to have understood about metaphorically speaking , even if he had never heard of it , and it does seem that what he possessed in the way of scientific approach he lacked in common sense . |
| 14 | I recognized that what I liked in Dad and Charlie was their insistence on standing apart . |