Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] [adv] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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1 | I feel so glad that I 've finally found something that works and am not confined to a life of bingeing/vomiting , etc . |
2 | It 's just that I 've never met anyone as nice as you talk . |
3 | So I can honestly say that I 've never known anyone who 's ever played for Leeds . |
4 | So I can honestly say that I 've never known anyone who 's ever played for Leeds . |
5 | ‘ Not that I 've personally got anything against your legs . ’ |
6 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
7 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |
8 | No , I think that I had better take one from the Scottish National party . |
9 | I felt that I had never seen anyone so old . |
10 | I said that I had never heard anything more extraordinary . |
11 | ‘ However , ’ Herbie continued , ‘ I will concede that I have never seen one as far upstream as this before . ’ |
12 | Readers may be surprised to learn that I have never owned anything larger than a 48″ × 18″ × 18″ , though at one point many years ago a 72″ × 18″ ( angle iron , with a divided front like the windscreen in very old Morris Minors ) nearly came to live with me . |
13 | I could tell by her voice that she had just said something which she believed , and I was surprised , because I had somehow thought her too clever really to believe anything . |
14 | But it was n't until Ellen came to pick him up that he discovered that she had already bought everything for a picnic lunch . |
15 | It was the first time that she had ever told anyone of what had happened . |
16 | I am still dreaming of the white cotton lace bedspread that I have always promised to knit for my ‘ best friend ’ because I know that she had always wanted one . |
17 | The boat too affected her profoundly ; she had never been on a boat before , except for a rowing boat in the park , and she stood up on the top deck in the bitter grey April wind , and watched the foam and the emptiness and the receding bar of Folkestone , and she thought that she had never seen anything so wonderful in her life . |
18 | She said afterwards that she had never experienced anything like it , but that it was not unpleasant or fearful . |
19 | She had never been to Ireland and said that she had never read anything about that country , and yet she was able to supply an abundance of detail about the way of life in that place at an earlier time . |
20 | This was n't how she had planned it — not that she had really planned anything , but she had pictured herself , cold and ferocious , confronting him , shocking him with the knowledge that he had virtually killed her brother . |
21 | Nothing happened — not that she 'd really thought anything would — although there was a nervous tingle in her fingers . |
22 | We made mention that we 've already submitted something in writing . |
23 | Now I 'm wondering how easy or whether there 's any mileage in actually having a report coming to our next committee , to actually build on that so that we 've actually got something to pull on figures to consider erm , and if , and it , it is going to detrimentally impact upon us to a greater or lesser extent , then , then obviously it 's helpful to me . |
24 | Well , I suggest someone nips over next door to see if we can borrow a room — that is , if it is felt that we need actually to discuss anything more . " |
25 | Those not giving evidence that I spoke to found watching the trials a useful experience and felt that they had either learned something from the process or at least , if they were already experienced in giving evidence , received helpful confirmation on points of technique . |
26 | Some owners of OTC-traded warrants claimed that they had never received anything written about exercising them at all . |
27 | With cries of delight , the ladies of the theatre gathered round Hari , exclaiming loudly that they had never seen anything so pretty . |
28 | She had never even asked if there was a photograph of her father , and she supposed they had been so careful not to upset her that they had never offered one . |
29 | He realized that he had just murmured something under his breath . |
30 | Tommaso said , quickly , that he could not stay , that he had just had something to drink , anyway , in town . |