Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] that [pron] [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 | Er , the comment here the way that I have been used to doing these I found that I I like it and the kids can |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | I decided that what I did it for small reasons |
| 6 | I felt that everything I 'd worked for had gone down the drain . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I believe I picked up the tape-recorder in much the same spirit — because I felt that whatever we did here ought to have a rather spontaneous feel to it , and yet at the same time be noticeably hard-wearing . |
| 10 | I knew that what he said was true . |
| 11 | ‘ By then , I knew that what I really wanted was to become a designer . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I knew that what she told me could n't be the whole story . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I knew that whatever I was producing , I was meant to have : that somehow we had chosen each other . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I said that what I would really like was a little place of my own with two people looking after me . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I recognized that what I liked in Dad and Charlie was their insistence on standing apart . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | Hopefully , she waited for him to return to her side , but when he failed to do so she realised that whatever he had been about to say would be left unsaid . |
| 23 | Now , at last , she realised that whatever she had felt for Richard was long since buried , under an avalanche of hurt and disillusion . |
| 24 | Paris , unlike the journey , had its disappointments , though she realized that what she principally disliked was the position from which she was viewing it . |
| 25 | At other times , she sensed that whatever she did , it made no difference . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She thought that what he had said was likely to be either partially or totally untrue , but it was not her concern . |
| 29 | She knew that whatever she said would be irrelevant anyhow . |
| 30 | As soon as she set eyes on Giles Carnaby again she knew that whatever it was it was not a case of cure ; her heart thumped , she felt unstable . |