Example sentences of "that [pron] [adv] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , when I made this suggestion to St John and his sisters , they protested strongly , and it was with great difficulty that I finally managed to convince them of my firm intention to carry out this plan . |
| 2 | I thought he looked so lost and unhappy that I just wanted to comfort him at first , and Chris says he just thought I was kind . |
| 3 | Well I 've got lots of acquaintances but I do n't know that I necessarily want to put them on the erm |
| 4 | I asked her to come to see me on the day after her arrival and at the hour of sunset , the best time for the wonderful view that I then had to offer her . |
| 5 | ‘ Sometimes I feel that I never want to see it again . ’ |
| 6 | The only disappointment was that I never did see them feeding , for I could have learned such a lot in those short but interesting hours . |
| 7 | He was in such a state that I literally had to drag him back to the main road . |
| 8 | Rachel turned in the cramped space and saw that someone else had joined them on the jig . |
| 9 | If he had been aware that she 'd gone , he would probably have assumed that someone else had taken her home . |
| 10 | I did want to , once , yet … now that someone else has done it , I feel nothing but pity . |
| 11 | This is purported to walk the grave yard at certain times of the year , but firm evidence of this I 've not been able to find ; you always hear that someone else has seen it but never first hand . |
| 12 | If you leave your gear on stage , you may find that someone else has moved it for you , and they wo n't be as careful as you . |
| 13 | Mars was merely a sad story that somebody else had told her , but leaving the meanings was worse than unrequited love . |
| 14 | In fact I 'm not sure that she even attempted to understand them . |
| 15 | ‘ Antonia told me she had been watching Mellor on TV in the run up to the General Election and said she had suddenly been taken over by this incredible desire for him and that she badly wanted to meet him . |
| 16 | With the awful feeling in her bones that she really had blown it , Fabia got out of the car and stood with him on the pavement . |
| 17 | She just come to tell me that she really wants to take him out . |
| 18 | It is not rude in pointing out that she sometimes fails to apply it , |
| 19 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 20 | And if it does n't work , then I think that you just have to end it . |
| 21 | ‘ The fact that in saying that you clearly mean to reassure me , ’ said Lydia , ‘ shows that you do not know me at all well . |
| 22 | What you 're really saying , I think is , that you actually want to do it |
| 23 | The prevailing value system suggests that it is only if you have paid in full for what you receive that you fully deserve to have it . |
| 24 | He was so quick to forgive personal insults and injuries that it was said that you only had to injure him in order to have him as a friend for life . |
| 25 | The obvious advantage of this is that you only need to lug it around if you 're going to use it , so there 's another saving on weight . |
| 26 | MP24 is an Elancyl gel with microparticles which prolong the effect for 24 hours , so that you only need to massage it in lightly . |
| 27 | Eating badly and gaining weight is an unpleasant experience , and should be so different from your new lifestyle that you never want to do it again . |
| 28 | He would have liked to know that you still came to see me . |
| 29 | ‘ User Friendly did absolutely nothing for a week after the St Leger and got so full of herself that we nearly had to tie her down , ’ smiled Clive . |
| 30 | We discovered the beautiful scenery is not the only attraction of Monte Maggiore , and when we found the Residence Elena we felt , at once , that we just had to add it to our selection . |