Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] that [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now for me to say that Gerry Addams is a member of the I R A , I 'm not gon na to do that . |
| 2 | At this time , it was great triumph for me to find that Rachel could bear her beloved Jacob no children . |
| 3 | ‘ What she did say , though , was enough for me to know that Leith and I wo n't be moving to London . ’ |
| 4 | It was strange to think that none of them knew that Arabella was dead ; her absence made no difference to their lives . |
| 5 | One of them said that Andrus normally took his money away in a small bag , one he could conceal under his gown , it 's safer that way . |
| 6 | Petrovich found in her interviews with the children , that if she started off asking them about " God " , as a word which they had learned , the majority of them said that God was a man . |
| 7 | Some of them said that Carolan was a kind of licensed political buffoon , not to be taken seriously , and that in some ways his wild oratory was a useful escape valve in a complex society . |
| 8 | All the fathers of the early church saw the Devil as holding rights over this world , but some of them believed that God had to pay him his dues in order to win back the world . |
| 9 | Many of them believed that Eldorado 's launch in July was six months too early . |
| 10 | Some of them believed that NASA had arranged it all for precisely that reason . |
| 11 | All of them agreed that Mrs Shaw who was ‘ one of the best ’ , helped Mr Shaw tremendously with his plays . |
| 12 | " Now then … in 1959 your husband came to the conclusion , and I am given to understand that you fully agreed , that it would be a sensible step for him to take employment for 15 months with a construction firm in Central America , in order to save the larger part of his salary Nenna protested that she had never exactly thought it sensible , it was the parting of lovers , which must always be senseless , but they 'd both of them thought that David , Panama , would be a wretched place to take small children to . |
| 13 | How observant of you to spot that Terry Wade 's shorts were a different colour and to suspect this was a tactical ploy . |
| 14 | Serve him right , Virginia thought uncharitably , but some buried corner of her rejoiced that Guy had told the truth , at least on that score … |
| 15 | How reasonable of him to admit that Scotland is , as it always was , a separate and distinct nation . |
| 16 | None of us realized that Badoglio , who had ordered the armed forces to resist the Germans , had already fled Italy , together with the King , and left it leaderless . |
| 17 | Even then , Terry and I used to have arguments when one of us discovered that Gary had knowledge of things that only the two of us knew . |
| 18 | All three of us know that John has a secret . |
| 19 | Defender Andrei Ivanov said : ‘ It would be very wrong of us to think that Spartak have already qualified for the quarter-finals . |
| 20 | It may be comforting for you to know that God understands EXACTLY how you feel . |
| 21 | She heard him call out and by the barks behind her knew that Hector followed . |
| 22 | Jacques caught up with me to say that Tante Héloise , who 'd gone to her room with a supposed migraine , had disappeared too , and Ernestine was having hysterics . ’ |
| 23 | When they reached Sukarno 's residence , Sjahrir burst in upon them to say that Japan was sueing for peace . |
| 24 | The coward in me hopes that Pendero gets beaten in an honest race this afternoon . |
| 25 | For example , subjects were able to remember whether a character had been referred to by name or by pronominal reference ( as in , He wo n't leave Rachel 's room / Mac wo n't leave Rachel 's room ) and whether an utterance had contained a full clausal unit or an abbreviated elliptical clause ( as in You mean that Jamie does n't know that his mother is in the hospital yet ? / You mean that Jamie does n't know that yet ? ) . |
| 26 | A little voice inside her whispered that Luke had never intended his generous words to be taken literally . |
| 27 | Eventually he met a boy almost distressed with diffidence who told him enough for him to conclude that Lorton was much too far away for comfort . |
| 28 | But , as he revealed later , it did not take long for him to realise that Paris was no more inspirational to him than Barnsley , so he returned to northern England and entered show business as a singer and pianist . |
| 29 | I think it was a great relief for him to think that Tony DeFries would deal with things and all he had to do was deal with his artistry . |
| 30 | Obviously a writer who is happy with ‘ super-refined ’ ( elsewhere he says that Eliot 's ‘ Portrait of a Lady ’ is ‘ extraordinarily sensitized ’ ) is not a critic worth pausing on for long ; and yet when Untermeyer cites all too patent imitations of Eliot 's ‘ Sweeney Among the Nightingales ’ in quatrains by Osbert Sitwell and Herbert Read and Robert Nichols , one can see good reason for him to think that Eliot s reputation , achieved so fast on such a slender body of work , was no more than modish . |