Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What made me finally decide to insist on this was when I realized that had you been a man , Miranda , or had I not been personally involved with you , I would n't have hesitated to ask for these shares . ’ |
| 2 | I intended to explore the ways in which major English writers of the sixteenth century created their own performances , to analyze the choices they made in representing themselves and in fashioning characters … but as my work progressed , I perceived that fashioning oneself and being fashioned by cultural institutions — family , religion , state — were inseparably intertwined . |
| 3 | I decided that aiming my camera at the TV set was just as reasonable as aiming it out the window " ( ART news , Jan. 1986 ) . |
| 4 | And that 's when I felt that I wished I had of went for a career in the trade union or I felt that had I done that , I would have been satisfying something that was there . |
| 5 | I knew that telling them would be hard but nothing prepared me for their anger and grief during our final month together . |
| 6 | But long ago , in 1946 , the questing and the questioning had become almost unbearable , and I knew that to keep my sanity I must force myself to an arbitrary conclusion : I would believe the least terrible of terrible possibilities — that the plane had been shot down over the Channel by enemy action . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw that sort you 've been knocking about with last night . |
| 8 | It is usually held in October or November and I thought that holding it today perhaps heralded better news or that we were on the brink of a breakthrough or a decision . |
| 9 | I thought that covered it but , it may not do . |
| 10 | Oh good brother , just what I thought that drop my jaw something I do n't know the rest of the words . |
| 11 | I learned that using someone sexually leaves you feeling oddly empty and bad about yourself . |
| 12 | well that 's five hundred quid , I said that leaves you with |
| 13 | I am happy to repeat in this House an apology to the Chief Education Officer of Birmingham Mr Tim Brighouse for anything I said that offended him . |
| 14 | After a few moments of frozen hesitation , she realised that to refuse his offer would only reinforce his current impression that she was a frigid little puritan with hang-ups about physical contact . |
| 15 | She found that establishing her own goals based on her needs made studying that much easier and gave a purpose to the activities and assignments she was asked to do on the course . |
| 16 | Cos she reckoned that cured it . |
| 17 | As you enjoyed that slice you had yesterday so very much , I ordered cook to bake you an extra large one all for yourself . ’ |
| 18 | Oh did you , you recorded that did you ? |
| 19 | You loved that did you ? |
| 20 | Her story was that the morning news placed Burrows near Gainsborough , and she thought that exonerated him . |
| 21 | For she thought that to reject his money altogether might hurt him . |
| 22 | And yet she knew that swallowing her pride was something that must be done , she would offer Hari Morgan the inducement of her own premises , a free hand in design and the services of experienced boot and shoemakers to work under her direction . |
| 23 | She attempted to push him away , and then , as his wonderful mouth gentled over hers , she knew that to push him away was not what she wanted either . |
| 24 | She knew that writing his name was never going to get him back , even if they wrote it hundreds of times in the most beautiful book in the world . |
| 25 | As the days slid by , the Cruithin became a little less elusive , and Grainne waited , because she knew that to befriend them , to lead them back into Ireland , would be the greatest service she could render her people . |
| 26 | The young Beatrice Webb was convinced of the importance of family life for women and during the 1880s desperately desired an intimate relationship with the leading politician , Joseph Chamberlain , yet she knew that to marry him would cut her off for ever from the purposeful life of work that she also wanted . |
| 27 | I do n't think you meant that did you ? |
| 28 | When you saw that happening you realised you had to go into other things . |
| 29 | It was n't the egotism she feared that told her none of the others would understand just what the program was , or its significance . |
| 30 | She feared that to approach it would simply alert the authorities to a new means of blackmail by threatening her father through his civil service position . |