Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] [verb] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John , of Pontypridd , Mid Glamorgan , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't until I came to pay for a car at the auction that I realised what I 'd done . |
| 2 | Retrenchment will be the order of the day , with the result that we achieve what we have planned for . |
| 3 | So if you work on the presumption then that that position is the preferable one , bearing in mind that you know what you 're doing but you do n't know what other people are doing . |
| 4 | But dozens of representatives shouted ‘ Yes ’ when he recalled the European election campaign and asked them : ‘ Can any of us say in all honesty that we did everything we could ? ’ |
| 5 | But at the time I was so excited by my good luck that I forgot what I owed to Joe . |
| 6 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
| 7 | But quite often Quigley will keep his audience in such a state of suspense that he forgets what it was he intended to say . |
| 8 | It was not until the middle of May that I discovered what it was that had so stimulated my friend . |
| 9 | He wrote : ‘ But it is when we examine the zoology of these countries that we find what we most require — evidence of a very striking character that these great islands must once have formed a part of the continent , and could only have been separated at a very recent geological epoch . |
| 10 | He was a Syrian and there is no question that he knew what he was about . |
| 11 | And it is with every confidence that I tell you I am sure that this young couple will have a very happy marriage , and I would ask you to join me in wishing them both a long , happy , and prosperous future together . |
| 12 | He starts by remarking that scientists and ( at that time ; he was writing in the 1950s ) philosophers usually take science as the understanding of an independent reality , with the presumptions that they know what it is for something to be ‘ real ’ and for someone to ‘ understand ’ it . |
| 13 | There was no doubting that he meant what he said , and she glared at him , realising that she was beaten . |
| 14 | It was in the second of the rooms behind a damp stack of spare mattresses that he found what he 'd been hoping for . |
| 15 | Ale ale was one of the things that they ate they they drank they put ale on their porridge . |
| 16 | Before she had time to think , she 'd raised her own glass in response and it was only after she 'd sipped her drink that she realised what she 'd done . |
| 17 | ‘ There is a common belief that you get what you pay for . |
| 18 | ‘ There is a common belief that you get what you pay for . |
| 19 | Why did she have the feeling that he knew something she did n't ? |
| 20 | The strangest part of the adventure was the feeling that she knew what it was about when , in fact , she did not know . |
| 21 | In these moments of gilded sensuality she had the wonderful feeling that she knew everything she needed to know , right here , and right now , right beneath her fingertips . |
| 22 | I believe it was on this ride that I sensed something I had not felt since the time I took my French classes in London : a sort of exhilarating separateness . |
| 23 | But it seems that , I mean , redressing a paper that you know what it says is one thing erm so something like Hillman 's Guardian , he knows what words they are going to use in those headlines and he provides them with a new look for saying those words in , but in many ways his redesign of that paper was erm it was an undynamic one in the sense that he was still providing them with elements which they could bolt together to make a page in a classic broadsheet newspaper way . |
| 24 | Yes I know that fifty pee that I owe you I have n't forgotten about it . |
| 25 | Political and economic considerations regarding England seem to be an important part of Amanda 's critique , but surely our heritage , culture and lifestyle should give every English person cause for some degree of contentment , and to praise God that we have what we have . |
| 26 | You do as you are told and hope to God that someone knows what they are doing . |
| 27 | If we go back to the criterion of incompetence described at the outset , their actions are incompetent in the sense that they produce what they do not intend , and they do so repeatedly , even though no one is forcing them to do so . |
| 28 | Similarly , it is as a participant in the Hindu way of life that he understands what it means to talk of Religion ; he understands the meaning of the term Religion from its use in his own form of life . |
| 29 | The truism that you get what you pay for was ably demonstrated by the decision in 1981 to replace ageing first-generation DMU fleets on non-electrified outer suburban lines and remote branches with low-cost bus-type bodies on four-wheeled underframes . |
| 30 | Technical yeah the technical people but you have to ensure do n't you that with with your audience that you understand who they are but if you do n't then you have to keep it to a common denominator . |