Example sentences of "[that] [subord] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look Katie , your job is your business , I admit that until I met you I did n't have a lot of time for the police . |
| 2 | He looked at my work and said I had talent , but that I needed " earnest practice in drawing " , to which I wholly agree : He also said he would be glad to take me as his " chela " but that my name and work must go before the council of professors of the Academy , which meets next Thursday , 17th inst. and that if they accepted me I could start work on the following Monday , 21st inst . |
| 3 | This meant that they would n't be back before the pubs closed , but I also knew that if they knew who I was going out with they would have locked me in . |
| 4 | Barth thought that if we knew what we meant by the word ‘ God ’ , then God must exist . |
| 5 | As the benefit money came in we sent a lot of it out to Suzie 's parents — we thought that if we found something we wanted to buy out there and did choose to emigrate , having the money out there in the first place would make it all that much easier . |
| 6 | She shone so brightly she could have been freshly painted ; you were afraid that if you touched her you 'd smudge something . |
| 7 | She had kept silent because ‘ my understanding was that if I told anyone I would die . |
| 8 | I was terrified that if I criticized him he would take offence and leave me , if not permanently , then for a few days , without giving me a sign of life , and so leaving me in anguish . |
| 9 | Something seemed to open or to expand in her brain , releasing a cold voice which she had never heard there before , telling her that if he cheated her she might just as well kill him . |
| 10 | Anyway , Michael said that if he had one he 'd settle for peeling off the Carlsson stickers and the other red flashes down the sides and leave it at that . |
| 11 | Stephen perceived that he had no torch , or that if he had one he was n't bothering to use it , which meant he must know the moor well , as well perhaps as Stephen himself did . |
| 12 | Then she stepped away from him , fearful of her own weakness and afraid that if he kissed her she would dissolve into a quivering jelly that would melt from sheer ecstasy . |
| 13 | For a moment she was worried that if he recognized her he might discover her story . |
| 14 | But when she came to the end of them , and stood there trembling , she realised that if he remembered her he would certainly report her to Mr Carson . |
| 15 | My mother used to say that if anyone told her she was looking tired , she knew it meant that she was not looking very attractive either . |
| 16 | He had no doubt that his mother was in her bedroom and that if she heard him she would come into his room and it would start , he knew it would : the upbraiding of Martin , and he would n't be able to stand it without checking her . |
| 17 | Which explanation , she was sure , had deceived neither Mama nor Papa , for both of them had written saying that if she needed them they would come at once after all . |
| 18 | Are you telling me that because you recognised him you had to put on that charade ? |
| 19 | Joanne was impressed with their ability to formulate the rule for themselves and felt that since they understood what they were doing there was a better chance of retention . |
| 20 | Do you not realise that since I met you I — ? ’ |
| 21 | There 's so many things that after we recorded them we never played again . |
| 22 | You will understand that when we knew what we were coming into we made some discreet enquiries . |
| 23 | So that when we galloped them they did n't know , see , mm , years ago they were very particular an another man did n't li , say I had horses and you had horses , I would n't like my horses galloping with yours . |
| 24 | ‘ The fact that Simon worshipped the ground you walked on means you must have been one hundred per cent certain that when you told him he 'd insist on marrying you — which he did — so what difference did that one day make to you ? ’ |
| 25 | N well I , I , I had , why I was so positive about it , I had an uncle who had it very badly and as a child I was very aware of his hands , they were quite inhuman looking , they were that shape , and you know everything he did he , he had to that and that 's remained in my mind that when I got it I though I wo n't have the hands like that so I r I w I go , I went to sleep , I still do it , every night , spread my hands , the last thing I think about , spread the hands . |
| 26 | ‘ She was so hell-bent on them that when I told her I could n't get them anywhere she said ‘ Well , we 'd better make them . ’ |
| 27 | Moistening dry lips , she began , ‘ You 'll remember that when I told you I intended leaving you said I might go immediately ? |
| 28 | I think I 'd almost convinced myself that when I saw you I 'd be cured . |
| 29 | What did I start with there so that when I differentiated it I got X squared . |
| 30 | Brilliant okay now here I started off with something I do n't know what it was but I know that when I differentiated it I finished up with X |