Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] [vb past] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Benedict ! ’ she cried , and did not know that she stretched out her arms to him . |
| 2 | She thought she knew herself very well , but faced with God she realized that she knew virtually nothing . |
| 3 | ‘ He did n't realize he 'd dropped a brick when he admitted that he knew where we were going . |
| 4 | But might not be the best thing because if for any reason the buyer says that they did n't they 're not going to pay |
| 5 | It seemed so quick and easy when the time came that she wondered why she had waited so long . |
| 6 | But now as she stood looking at herself in a full length looking glass , she could see that she had indeed what the magazines described as the perfect figure , firm round breasts , a narrow flat waist , good hips , a small posterior , and long slender legs which were greatly enhanced by the silk stockings the assistant had carefully rolled on to them . |
| 7 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 8 | She replied that she knew where he was but she did n't want to discuss it . |
| 9 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
| 10 | ‘ She will entertain us every evening after supper , ’ said Goibniu and Floy nearly abandoned the entire thing there and then , because there had been something so meaningful in the way that Goibniu had said entertain that he wondered how they could ever have considered leaving her here alone . |
| 11 | Beating the bounds , when the parishioners walked round the parish boundaries to ensure that everyone knew where they were in case of dispute , was associated with the Rogationtide crop blessing . |
| 12 | Not necessarily : ‘ I do n't think I meant that even the people who have no caveats attached implied that they knew absolutely everything in the box . |
| 13 | The everyday school uniform , now useless , meant that one had hardly anything to wear ! |
| 14 | In his memoirs , ‘ My Web of Time ’ , the Reverend R H Gallagher notes that he gave up his car in 1939 on the outbreak of war and never had another afterwards . |
| 15 | In the case of Molla Sayyid Muhammad al-Nakib ( Yavuz Celebi ) , on the other hand , Ata'i merely notes that he started off his career as a kasabat kadi , then turned to the medrese system in which he was given a 40-akce medrese and subsequently worked his way up to the Suleymaniye Darulhadis — probably by this time the premier medrese in the empire to which he was appointed in 1012/1604 : he later became kadi of Eyup and then nakibulesraf . |
| 16 | By the time Louise returned to the kitchen to tell him that his mother was ready to go home Constance felt that he knew absolutely everything about her , but had revealed nothing of himself . |
| 17 | If the accused falls below that standard , it seems strange to inquire whether he knew that he fell below it . |
| 18 | You know he 'd far prefer to have the cheap workforce that you could tell exactly and appear to know what he 's talking about , whereas the older men knew that he knew absolutely nothing . |
| 19 | At one meeting , Branson became so exasperated that he walked off his own boat and paced up and down the towpath outside to cool down . |
| 20 | For those who find Sue 's perfect BBC voice refined and soothing , it is a shock to learn that she ironed out her Black Country accent while studying modern languages at Bristol University . |
| 21 | Fabia , not wanting him to think that she hung on his every word , turned away . |
| 22 | Yet I knew a Wiltshire man who said that he burned hardly anything else ; and it was very fine , he said , when well seasoned . |
| 23 | In some ways , he was so sleepy and relaxed that you wondered how he ever got the adrenalin up to race . |
| 24 | In the Hawthorne experiments that we discussed earlier it was group pressure that determined the appropriate behaviour of individuals rather than formal guidelines , and informal sanctions were imposed if the individual did not conform to the group norms and expectations . |
| 25 | People are told that Mr Zhang was so dedicated that he cut short his honeymoon to return to work , telling his new wife : ‘ One day without hearing the sound of the drill , my heart is heavy . |
| 26 | No did he say no did you say that he phoned up anyone else ? |
| 27 | How many of the rest of you would say that you got where you are today , in your area of expertise , with trial and error . |
| 28 | There were those , of course , who 'd say that she 'd only herself to blame . |
| 29 | She began to feel that she knew where she was , a little : and after a while she too began to talk . |