Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] that what [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once I 'd had a chance to calm down a little I realised that what I wanted was you . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I went past this woman 's door , her name was Emily , and it was like I was passing a huge vulva , so big it has a desk inside , and I decided that what I should do is make an actual photocopy of my dick , in fact two copies , one before coming , one after , and leave these , along with an asterisk memo , on her desk . ’ |
| 4 | I decided that what I did it for small reasons |
| 5 | I must say when I read that in 's letter , I did n't read that specific erm comment , I read something , something much much wider really , that , that really I felt that what she was saying was you know that when , when there is a group , then readers er musicians , everybody else reflect together and come together before they actually , you know , they do n't all operate the same but they come together and they reflect together on what the , the theme is , or you know , what was the main point of the readings . |
| 6 | I felt that what I was really talking about was my confusion over what I want , what I like and what I do n't like . |
| 7 | I knew that what he said was true . |
| 8 | ‘ By then , I knew that what I really wanted was to become a designer . ’ |
| 9 | But in 1976 , when Jean Darnall gave me this advice , I knew exactly what she meant and I knew that what she recommended was exactly what I wanted to do . |
| 10 | I knew that what she told me could n't be the whole story . |
| 11 | I could not remember what she was saying , nor even if I had understood her , but I knew that what she was saying must be , in some sense , significant . |
| 12 | In the 19th century an anthology was made of all the surviving T'ang poetry and someone complained that what he saw was only a meagre yield from the vast harvest of its origin . |
| 13 | I said that what I would really like was a little place of my own with two people looking after me . |
| 14 | I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken . |
| 15 | I recognized that what I liked in Dad and Charlie was their insistence on standing apart . |
| 16 | Now , when he allowed her so much of his time , she realised that what she had felt before was but a poor shade of the real thing . |
| 17 | But by now she realised that what she really wanted to do was act ( she chose drama at high school to get out of English ) . |
| 18 | Paris , unlike the journey , had its disappointments , though she realized that what she principally disliked was the position from which she was viewing it . |
| 19 | She had not tried , as yet , to see beyond today ; she sensed that what she saw when she did lift her eyes might well be a void , and as bleak as winter ice . |
| 20 | She decided that what she felt was panic , the terror of being trapped not in too small but in too large a space , where too much could happen and go beyond control . |
| 21 | She thought that what he had said was likely to be either partially or totally untrue , but it was not her concern . |
| 22 | She knew that what I said was believable enough , since Vadinamia was a highly likely place for a courier to drum up a job conveying something somewhere . |
| 23 | She hoped that she had n't made an enemy out of Joe Lucas ; she knew that what he 'd done , he 'd done for her and for the memory of Christine . |
| 24 | Which of course he could not — not the physical thing ; she knew that what she felt as a warmth of affection was experienced by him as a demand for that . |
| 25 | Innocent , virginal and as strictly moral as she was , she knew that what she felt for Lucenzo was so powerful and primeval that she would never resist him . |
| 26 | She admitted that , ‘ even though you knew that what you said did n't matter ’ , it was a daunting experience ; in fact ‘ afterwards , counsel apologised for giving me such a hard time ’ . |
| 27 | She simply did not know , although deep in her heart she feared that what she felt for Nicky Scott Wilson was not true love . |
| 28 | her parents , but they , they do n't have their friends , in fact I 'm not sure that they did very much at all , I think that Myrie meant it when she said that what they wanted was the most peaceful sort of Christmas that you could possibly imagine , with no big teas , big meals or anything |
| 29 | We believed that what we were doing did n't infringe on the characters of any group of people , and therefore we had a clear mind . |
| 30 | Bass guitarists included Mo Foster , and Lee Sklar who played on a track for us , but we did n't use what he did , as we felt that what we already had was better . |