Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [pron] [vb past] that " in BNC.

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1 Had someone or something decided that now was the time to be serious ?
2 it was Mr that posed the question to me and I understood that it was his idea
3 During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus .
4 I lost a lot of pictures , but it opened up the night-time for me and I felt that the mood came out .
5 Her back was to me and I saw that she had her fingers crossed behind her back as she spoke .
6 So I went to a designer , Denise Vaughan of Deni Vee , and she made me a couple of suits which really pleased me and I believed that I was on to something .
7 It so happened that the Gulf War in Kuwait was filling our attention , and so I switched on a video tape whenever something attracted me and I found that I would be most likely to record the daily sessions on the BBC 's Newsnight with Peter Snow discussing the disposition of troops over the battle zone using a visual aid which is now known as the sandpit .
8 There was movement below me and I remembered that I was in the upper berth of a two-tier bunk and Iain had one of those wristwatches with a built-in alarm .
9 I thought of Angela Brickell 's death and of the attacks on Harry and me and it seemed that all three had had one purpose , which was to keep things as they were .
10 That 's why sometimes they got mad at him because they knew he was talking to them and about them and they knew that it applied to them .
11 Many involved with its setting up feel deeply unhappy that they were misled when it was set up because the Government encouraged them and they believed that they would get direct financial support .
12 He did n't have to scream at people to get his way ; he just told them and he knew that they knew they had better do it that way or there was gon na be trouble ! ’
13 And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written .
14 There was a thread of affection growing between them and she knew that as well as Jenna did .
15 Ample proof indeed that it had recognized them and it realized that it was the entrance to its home .
16 I mean , I felt that , it made me worse as well , by going to them and I decided that I would never go back to them again , you know .
17 She and I agreed that what we really envied them for was the power of crying when they are bored or , as an extreme measure , being sick .
18 T. D. Orange Lodges had their processions — be an occasional explosion when someone tried to dodge between you and they decided that once the procession started , nobody must cross the bows .
19 ‘ I figure Simon said it because he was in love with you and he hoped that by pretending the two of you were a couple he might give fate a nudge and make it happen . ’
20 ‘ I 'm not married ! ’ she retorted , and for a few moments as her world righted itself and she realised that she must have momentarily got her wires crossed , because he had already told her he was not married , she realised too that , up until a moment ago , he must have thought her — Mrs Barnaby Stewart .
21 But I suppose as a bowling green then you but he said that we 've already cut the stick their neck out will they ?
22 I did n't have the faintest idea how this girl could help me but I knew that she was going to try .
23 cos to be really eager because she said erm that she 'd asked the bloke about staying on permanently and everything and he said that it seemed the people who they were most impress impressed with after Christmas that can stay on permanently so we said on the end , you 've got ta be really eager and everything so she apparently was asking loads of questions
24 Of Mathilda there was no sight whatsoever and I realised that Bowyer 's death had panicked many of the servants into leaving Templecombe .
25 It seemed outrageously unfair that after so long she could not have him to herself and she hoped that his lodger would be tactful enough to leave them in peace during her visit .
26 Oh only a couple of weeks , no they were standing in the common room and she knew he was a virgin right and they were still going out and she knew he was a virgin when they first started going out and Rox goes oh so are you a virgin then erm erm James and he goes no and she was still going out with him and she knew that it was n't with her , obviously , and , and Roxy goes oh who was it then and he goes oh just two , two birds I met in erm Portugal and
27 ‘ All right ? ’ he asked as she came up beside him and she replied that she was , thank you .
28 He was grinning wryly , his voice sardonic ; then , as he finished the remark , a little jolt of pleasure hit him and he saw that he was absolutely right : she had .
29 He loved it that we had christened him and he knew that he was special to us .
30 He was sure , too , that she had believed him and he knew that the reason for this was that the story he had concocted was so very unlikely that no liar could possibly have put his faith in it .
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