Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know that he wanted it . |
| 2 | She did n't want to feel this attraction , and did n't want to know that he felt it too . |
| 3 | He had forgotten that he held it in his hand . |
| 4 | So good ways of checking that you got it right , and then you can go on comfortably with , let's have a look at erm this time you 're buying a block of gold , er |
| 5 | She 'd been ashamed to find that she found it such exhausting work , especially without the broad shoulders of Ross to lean on . |
| 6 | Then I had no excuse not to audition for plays , and when I did I found that I enjoyed it . |
| 7 | Hanging around with the photographer sparked Tony 's interest in the medium , ‘ It was a combination of things ; one was the bull , the adventure , the romance , and I really found that I liked it a lot . |
| 8 | He found that he liked it . |
| 9 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 10 | He stretched out a hand to Merrill , and she found that she needed it to escape the embrace of the thick , downy cushions . |
| 11 | The committee is very pleased with attendances ‘ this term ’ , which seems to indicate that we got it right … at least some of the time . |
| 12 | She tried to smile , attempting to indicate that she knew it was n't his fault , that he had n't known what he was doing . |
| 13 | because they realized that they needed it to invent something to fall in to what they 've already got . |
| 14 | Then he caught Epitot 's eye , and realized that he knew it too . |
| 15 | Often they will comment that they did it deliberately , for some poor reason or other , or say that they could , of course , have touched down earlier if they had really tried . |
| 16 | But anyway seeing that we got it and all this business and and er eventually they got it , but they did n't get it in nowhere near a a as good as ours and you know . |
| 17 | So she watched him closely , and she tried to read the signs , and when he seemed to be wanting something special she did her best to see that he got it . |
| 18 | Roper said : ‘ Good luck , old boy , ’ and I was surprised to see that he meant it . |
| 19 | I 'm unashamed to report that I enjoyed it a lot , and I 'm sure I would have loved it as a child . |
| 20 | The Barley Mow tends to be an instant poll of opinion on matters motor racing , and before the Spanish Grand Prix when a Mansell comeback was mooted , one regular announced that he hoped it was true because Nigel was the most exciting British driver anyone could remember . |
| 21 | And he was n't alone amongst the instructors who felt this way : Jack Bisley , Sam Temple , and Amos Bernstein , they all admitted that they hated it ; but Angus McBride and Len looked forward to their trips as if they were half-day school holidays . |
| 22 | as if to prove that the National Hunt supermen that brought off this latest feat are in fact human , Pipe admitted that he got it badly wrong over his assessment of In-Keeping . |
| 23 | Where , in competition with the liquidator of an insolvent company , a creditor of the company was successful in obtaining a renewal of the certificate ( though he had neither right to , nor possession of , the premises in respect of which the certificate was granted ) and admitted that he held it in trust for the company 's creditors , he was ordered to deliver up the certificate to the liquidator : Wm . |
| 24 | You have probably heard that I found it impossible to afford living in London any longer and have come here as a master . |
| 25 | In the end , my knitting was getting so chewed with all the knitting and unravelling that I took it off on waste yarn . |
| 26 | But she added that she feared it would not be possible to impose planning controls below the low-water mark , where the drilling rigs would be established . |
| 27 | ‘ Miss Wharton , who with a young boy discovered the bodies , says that she found it unlocked . ’ |
| 28 | He says that he shot it down , after chasing it at low level . |
| 29 | But in the very next poem he says that he did it for a change of diet , a bout of ‘ physic ’ as it were , needed after over-indulgence : ‘ being full of your ne'er cloying sweetness , /To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding ’ ( 118 ) . |
| 30 | He says that he tried it and it works . |