Example sentences of "[adj] that [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
| 2 | She looked so stricken at this that he wished he had n't said it . |
| 3 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 4 | When he introduced the report in the house , my right honourable friend , the member for Kingston upon Thames made is clear that he accepted them all and that the government was committed to carrying them out . |
| 5 | He also advocated the appointment of prison inspectors and made it clear that he expected them to be as thorough as he himself had been , probing every corner and speaking with every prisoner . |
| 6 | He suggested abortion two or three times and made it very clear that he thought I was making a mistake . |
| 7 | By his expression , it was clear that he thought she was lying . |
| 8 | the sky was high , the air so clear that he imagined he could see to the ends of the earth . |
| 9 | Although he did not commit a future Labour government to taking the tunnel into public ownership , he made it clear that he believed it would require a public stake to complete the project . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , I hope I shall always be Kingy to you , Miss Sally-Anne , ’ making it clear that he included her in the charmed circle of his friends . |
| 11 | She would cook them all a good breakfast and make it clear that she expected them to be at the table on time . |
| 12 | It was so clear that I knew I 'd been blind . |
| 13 | Sometimes she was so funny that it seemed she ought to be given a show of her own . |
| 14 | Ironically the price of sterling went up so high that it made it very difficult for us to sell our other manufactured goods and many people are now of the belief that because of the North Sea oil price rises , this had an adverse affect on our economy , making it more difficult for us to sell manufacturing goods because the pound was very strong against other currencies . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're so slim that I thought you might be one of those women who are on a perpetual diet , and I dislike intensely dining with someone who eats like a sparrow . ’ |
| 16 | The transition was so abrupt that it took her by surprise . |
| 17 | I am afraid that I told him to go away and not be silly . |
| 18 | Perturbed by the keenness of his loss , afraid that it made him , in truth , a stuffed-shirt Englishman as Hannele had assumed , Edward Carrington went to the bathroom and began to fill the mighty iron tub . |
| 19 | The district had changed since he last lived here , but he was not so old that he resented it . |
| 20 | Its complete lack of any taste was so nauseating that I spat it out and decided to eat the rest of the bread by itself I was finishing this when there was the sound of boots in the passage again . |
| 21 | Stok joined in the last three words as I said them , and then he laughed So loud that I thought he would shake some of the cracked tiles off the wall . |
| 22 | It seemed odd that he loathed her with such intensity and yet had made a pass at her . |
| 23 | When you asked how Tom and the children were , you must have thought it odd that I told you what Tom , and Alison and Cheryl were doing without really mentioning Peter . |
| 24 | But the amount of money we received would have been so little that we thought it would be far more useful if instead I could be given a job in one of the innumerable Allied offices that had sprung up everywhere . |
| 25 | His eyes were so alive that she felt she was looking straight into the source of his pleasure — he was the sort of man who thrived on challenge and went out to meet it head-on . |
| 26 | Do n't , do n't say nuffink to Lisa though right that you heard it . |
| 27 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're sorry that we teased you — and I promise to wear my blue headband tomorrow , ’ Sophie whispered in her ear . |
| 29 | I 'm sorry that I told you now . |
| 30 | ‘ I am so sorry that I caused you such grief by acting as I did , by going off without telling anyone . |