Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't till the evening when we sat down and talked about it that I realised it could have been quite dangerous . |
| 2 | And the story that I heard which may not be true that he had he did n't have the wig and gown . |
| 3 | So thickly was the snow falling that I knew they could only just have been made , probably within the past five minutes . |
| 4 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 5 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 6 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 7 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 8 | Also , my brother was such a good trumpet player that I knew I would never be as good as he was , so there was that in there too : like , ‘ God , I do n't really want follow in this guy 's footsteps . ' ’ |
| 9 | I was shaken by its totality , its danger — here was a being that I knew I would die for without hesitation . |
| 10 | " I had chest pains so bad that I knew I would be unable to give 100 per cent . " |
| 11 | That was n't the case with me , I just wanted the opportunity to do something that I knew I could do . |
| 12 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 13 | It was n't until the party that I knew I could n't pretend to myself any longer . |
| 14 | It was then that I knew I could have a fight on my hands : If the manager sided with him and asked me to move a few feet away then I 'd have no choice but to join in the squabble . |
| 15 | The working party on Equal Opportunities that I said I would convene ? |
| 16 | And s some suggestions that I said I 'd put forward to Janet about streamlining nominations and so on . |
| 17 | I did n't want John thinking that I said he would get her one . |
| 18 | And I had to make all these er computations out and er I made fifty that I thought nobody could pick . |
| 19 | Er and the only reason that I thought they may have been favourable , would have been based on the principle of fair play , but then erm when you think of er companies who are making profits from year to year which were in excess of the previous years , then by the time three years expired , our members could have been in a loss situation , if indeed they had n't gone forward and argued the case at domestic level . |
| 20 | We had passed so close to the Dutchman that I thought we must have run over his foot . |
| 21 | I answered my own question , and said that I thought we must be middle class , and reflected very precisely in that moment on my mother 's black waisted coat with the astrakhan collar , and her high-heeled black suede shoes , her lipstick . |
| 22 | She even told Sybil that the frog in the school pond was enchanted , and poor Sybil was in such a state that I thought someone ought to teach Mildred a lesson . ‘ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's just that I thought there might be something wrong … ’ |
| 24 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 25 | I hope you do n't mind my telling you , it 's only that I thought you ought to know . ’ |
| 26 | Its just that I thought you would n't come here any more … not after last night . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The main reason that I am contacting you is that I thought you might be interested to know that John ( stage name Joan Rawson ) was awarded the Eric Rowley Trophy for the artist who has done the most for charity over the last 12 months . |
| 28 | And you look so topping in that dress that I thought you might be a sport . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It 's just that I thought you should n't be able to turn people out of places they 've lived in for years , it does n't make sense . |