Example sentences of "taught [pers pn] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But experience has taught me that this is the rule of thumb that can be most profitably proposed and acted upon . |
| 2 | A year actually on the job had taught me that it was n't quite so simple ! |
| 3 | It has taught me that the world does n't revolve around me . |
| 4 | By this time , however , my gallery experience had taught me that you need money to start up properly , much more money than I had originally thought . |
| 5 | You 've taught me to care again , and you 've taught me that I matter , that my life is worth something . |
| 6 | In the three years I 've been here , and because C&P was one of the first ICI groups to move into quality , the value of the quality ethos has taught me that it 's the only way to do business . |
| 7 | Finally this study has given me a good idea of what life has been for people living in the past in America , where as before , I would n't have had a clue and it 's also taught me that no matter how many times you read a book , you 'll always find new links and connections . |
| 8 | Those who say that they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear him , do not in fact believe in him but in those who have taught them that God exists . |
| 9 | Experience had taught them that nothing alienated support within their districts more swiftly than bombs which killed or injured Roman Catholics and that nothing reduced the inflow of money from Irish American sympathisers more drastically . |
| 10 | Dammit , Tallboy , even given the poverty of your mind and the inadequacy of police training nowadays , surely they must have taught you that madmen , nutters , as you call them , follow a pattern ? |
| 11 | If this scenario occurred often enough , you would have taught her that , if whining does not work , a noisy tantrum will do the trick . |
| 12 | But being married to him had taught her that he was not a man who found it easy to forgive and forget — indeed , she was tempted to think that he enjoyed harbouring grudges and taking revenge . |
| 13 | Her dress sense was faultless and Félix had taught her that she could wear eye-catching colours that she would n't have thought of choosing for herself . |
| 14 | They 'd always taught her that the only truly good things were those of permanent value ; her first school had been a church school , and twice a week they 'd had to set their chairs in a raggedy half-circle and fidget their way through one of the vicar 's haranguing lectures on Life . |
| 15 | Experience had taught her that allowing him time meant , in effect , allowing him to stay . |
| 16 | Their mother had hated the very thought of anything that could lessen the love between her and Dana , and she had taught her that the bond between them was only imagination on Claudia 's part . |
| 17 | Salome Search 's three years at R.A.D.A. had taught her that the pause before a sensational line can be extended almost infinitely . |
| 18 | Tolkien had taught him that the inability to believe in Christianity was primarily a failure of the imagination . |
| 19 | For a start his mother had always taught him that it was a sin to work or play on the Sabbath . |
| 20 | His father had taught him that these must be suppressed , but now that the old attorney was dead Paul felt free to become himself ; what that might mean was not yet clear to him . |
| 21 | Experience had taught him that it was when you stopped to catch your breath that things caught you . |
| 22 | Minch had taught him that neither feeling was useful to an eagle unless it was controlled . |
| 23 | He wanted to get away somewhere and think in peace , but experience had taught him that it would have achieved nothing because he was incapable of sustained logical thought . |
| 24 | They had also taught him that the first thing to do with a wounded man was clear his breathing . |
| 25 | The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction . |
| 26 | He says his wife 's experience has taught him that you must take precautions . |
| 27 | But the doctrine of the extended phenotype has taught us that it need n't have been so . |
| 28 | But , says Hall modestly and realistically , ‘ Drilling has taught us that the first models we worked with were only the simplest of a large number of possibilities that were consistent with the observations . |
| 29 | Wittgenstein and Ryle have taught us that no kind of philosophical argument is exempt from the danger of vitiation by concealed analogies . |
| 30 | Writing of the work of Chardin , whose most profoundly moving paintings are revelations of how trivial , homely , everyday scenes and objects are transformed for us when we see them through the eyes of a great painter , Proust says , " Chardin has taught us that a pear is as living as a woman , a kitchen crock as beautiful as an emerald . " |