Example sentences of "[pron] that [pron] [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing that they sought eluded them , no matter the price . |
| 2 | Younis told me that they 'd taken my picture because I 'd hidden it . |
| 3 | I would never punish any child who did n't agree with me that they had done something … |
| 4 | Work-place acquaintance can safely be assumed to explain most of these weddings — though as it happens , two of the surviving women compositors , one who married a compositor from another printing office , and one whose husband worked at Bartholomew 's the map-printers , told me that they had met their future husbands at social gatherings unconnected with work . |
| 5 | It was clear to me that they had spared him in order to groom him for their own uses . |
| 6 | It seemed to me that I had become what my parents had wanted me to be , and I was getting no thanks from either of them for my efforts . |
| 7 | It took ages to dawn on me that I had to find something else to do with my time other than music . |
| 8 | The first few hundred hours of thought made me regret my bet ; but the second couple of thousand convinced me that I 'd played it right . |
| 9 | It was important to me that I did tell them individually because on their own I felt I could get their attention and having to explain why I felt like this , but more than that , I wanted them to fully understand that all of a sudden I was n't a lesbian whose name was Carla — I was still Carla , except that I just had different feelings . |
| 10 | Clare 's never told me that she 'd done anything with Stuart . |
| 11 | Afterwards he told me that he 'd thought I was going to start a revolution there and then . |
| 12 | The Chief-Corporal to whom I had given my sisters ' addresses at Canjuers was there , and he told me that he had sent my oldest sister a photograph of himself in a tank and one of his apartment in La Rochelle . |
| 13 | She stopped and bit her lip , then , seeing Sophie 's colour rising , she added , ‘ Edward told me that he had seen you and Robert kissing out on the balcony . ’ |
| 14 | When I phoned Kagan he told me that he had instructed his trustees in Israel to make the payment , but by some terrible misunderstanding they had paid it into the wrong charity . ’ |
| 15 | Some months later it dawned on me that he had put his hands on my head and what this implied ! |
| 16 | ‘ But my father told me that he had sold his interest in the business ! |
| 17 | The next year we were at Muirfield and I also did the Canada Cup with Peter the following year , 1960 , and here he broke the news to me that he wanted to use his regular St Andrews caddie Wal Gillespie for the 1960 Open . |
| 18 | ‘ I invited you because your mother told me that you 'd realised there were more things in life than work — at long last , ’ Simon said pithily , ‘ and were in the market for some socialising . ’ |
| 19 | Oh it were your mam , I think your mam told me that you 'd got it out . |
| 20 | A few people sat on the floor ( no chairs in the drama studio ) and jumped straight to their feet again as an outbreak of jeering laughter told them that they 'd got it wrong . |
| 21 | Then one night he came home to inform them that he had lost his job . |
| 22 | He was so fond of them that he 'd stuck them together with Sellotape . |
| 23 | I would tell them that I wanted to record their accents for a research project . |
| 24 | It was not with any encouragement from himself that she began to address him as Vic , but he was obliged to concede the point . |
| 25 | He tried to persuade himself that he 'd locked it but he knew he had n't . |
| 26 | He tried to tell himself that he had dreamt it . |
| 27 | Maybe he had proved to himself that he had recovered his nerve but he had had to hold on very tight at that moment when she had broken . |
| 28 | Okay well do n't worry do n't worry he ca n't you know just think of something though having said that if you look at the role that you played in the group moving towards the chairman 's style , taking over the group perhaps becoming and you were n't a person that sort of took over and forced your views on everybody but you were certainly up there at the front with and listening to people taking information and manipulating everything that you had to fit what was coming in from everybody so that does show Chairman 's skills , Chairman tendencies |
| 29 | A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights . |
| 30 | That was the er , last one that she 'd seen they said that . |