Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pers pn] [verb] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brucan 's reference to the benefits of abandoning the ‘ idiocy of rural life ’ was the typical presumption of a Marxist intellectual that he knew what was best for the benighted peasant . |
| 2 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 3 | It was only when I got home and looked up the dictionary that I realised what a gem it had been . |
| 4 | John , of Pontypridd , Mid Glamorgan , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't until I came to pay for a car at the auction that I realised what I 'd done . |
| 5 | Retrenchment will be the order of the day , with the result that we achieve what we have planned for . |
| 6 | So if you work on the presumption then that that position is the preferable one , bearing in mind that you know what you 're doing but you do n't know what other people are doing . |
| 7 | The applicant had been granted access to accounts on condition that he paid what was considered to be excessive amounts for rent of room , photocopying , and a union official 's salary . |
| 8 | Now at that stage my Lord Mr er telephoned Mr on the afternoon of the twenty second of October and it 's his case that he explained what had happened at the meeting of the bank to him and er asked him again , in view of the fact that was having to sell him home , if it was possible to withdraw from the contract and it is the plaintiff 's case that he pointed out to Mr er quite definitely and quite clearly on the telephone , on this day , er that without er the funding that he had required to run this business er he could only see that this was going to be potentially disastrous for him er and once again , my Lord as he said this was a fairly heated conversation and er the plaintiff was told by Mr once again that there was no way out for him and he should now concentrate all his efforts on achieving completion , er and once again we were . |
| 9 | But at the time I was so excited by my good luck that I forgot what I owed to Joe . |
| 10 | ‘ I mean , he 's from the right kind of background and he has more money that he knows what to do with . |
| 11 | But quite often Quigley will keep his audience in such a state of suspense that he forgets what it was he intended to say . |
| 12 | He was a Syrian and there is no question that he knew what he was about . |
| 13 | There was no doubting that he meant what he said , and she glared at him , realising that she was beaten . |
| 14 | And the last one is the pragmatist erm we 've got Mark , John and Marie who have come out quite high on the on the The pragmatist th the title that you suggest what the situations you actually learn best from and pragmatists like training its practical |
| 15 | With this business of embargo , Liz , I 'll agree with that but the , the off the record , one wants to get the local people very well and you do develop this , this trust , and if you can in fact give them a lot of scope that you know what to use . |
| 16 | This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween . |
| 17 | Before she had time to think , she 'd raised her own glass in response and it was only after she 'd sipped her drink that she realised what she 'd done . |
| 18 | She sat beside me and bathed and bandaged my knee but Aunt Louise made no sign that she realized what was going on . |
| 19 | Their approach is undermined by their mistaken belief that we know what experiential words ( 'pain' , ‘ looks red ’ ) mean by direct acquaintance with the things they stand for . |
| 20 | ‘ There is a common belief that you get what you pay for . |
| 21 | ‘ There is a common belief that you get what you pay for . |
| 22 | Clearly it was I who should have spoken these words , but already I had a feeling that I knew what the brown paper and the ribbed cardboard concealed , and I was n't going to say a word until time or circumstance compelled me . |
| 23 | The strangest part of the adventure was the feeling that she knew what it was about when , in fact , she did not know . |
| 24 | But it seems that , I mean , redressing a paper that you know what it says is one thing erm so something like Hillman 's Guardian , he knows what words they are going to use in those headlines and he provides them with a new look for saying those words in , but in many ways his redesign of that paper was erm it was an undynamic one in the sense that he was still providing them with elements which they could bolt together to make a page in a classic broadsheet newspaper way . |
| 25 | If we go back to the criterion of incompetence described at the outset , their actions are incompetent in the sense that they produce what they do not intend , and they do so repeatedly , even though no one is forcing them to do so . |
| 26 | ‘ I was shocked in the sense that I knew what inspectors could do , but I was n't worried because I thought they were just wasting their time . ’ |
| 27 | Similarly , it is as a participant in the Hindu way of life that he understands what it means to talk of Religion ; he understands the meaning of the term Religion from its use in his own form of life . |
| 28 | We trust other people 's judgements more than our own for the simple reason that we know what our judgements are based upon . |
| 29 | The truism that you get what you pay for was ably demonstrated by the decision in 1981 to replace ageing first-generation DMU fleets on non-electrified outer suburban lines and remote branches with low-cost bus-type bodies on four-wheeled underframes . |
| 30 | It was only when PC Buckingham called for assistance on his personal radio that they realised what was happening . |