Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's how I felt all the time ; this constant feeling that no-one wanted me to be there , no-one gave a f— about me . |
| 2 | It was not that I was so self-blind that I saw nothing to be learnt . |
| 3 | While he was out I had rewritten my will so that I left nothing to my ex . |
| 4 | My regard for her was reflected in the fact that I asked her to be my son , Giles 's godmother . |
| 5 | I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime . |
| 6 | I seem to remember that I unburdened myself to you , a while back . ’ |
| 7 | I was so superior that I considered myself to be virtually beyond criticism . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe not , but if I were you , Miss Williams , I 'd make sure that I confined myself to facts in future , and the most pressing one of all is the fact that someone in this town is annoyed with you ! ’ |
| 9 | I felt that I needed someone to be with me all day and all night . |
| 10 | A number of myths have grown up about David 's relationship with me — one of them being that I wanted him to be another Tommy Steele or another cabaret star , but this was not true . |
| 11 | Not that I wanted you to be my lover . |
| 12 | I gave him a draft of the first chapter and explained that I wanted it to be the sort of book that would sell in airport book stalls . |
| 13 | In the third place , you may recall that I escorted you to your room at half-past twelve ; but the college gates are locked at midnight , from which it follows that I would have had to rouse the duty porter in order both to be let out and to be let in again , something he will most certainly confirm I did not do . |
| 14 | He 's trying to make out that I gave it to him when I gave him a spoonful of that … stuff … |
| 15 | I hate to say this but I do rather think from the bruising that someone did it to him . ’ |
| 16 | She would cook them all a good breakfast and make it clear that she expected them to be at the table on time . |
| 17 | He did n't love her , of course , not that she expected him to , but he had n't been backward in the lovemaking department , had he ? |
| 18 | He knew that she thought him to be a stiff and unimaginative person . |
| 19 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 20 | Now that the lights are on I do n't suspect that she drove him to suicide . |
| 21 | ‘ Querida , ’ he had murmured in her ear , and Ruth had waited breathlessly for the words she hoped to hear — that she meant something to him , that he needed her , that he wanted to love her . |
| 22 | He was amused to observe that she forced herself to be a blank when she picked up the bowl of pus and blood . |
| 23 | Instead she stood with her eyes closed , lest they betrayed the fact that she found him to be disturbing to her . |
| 24 | It was only the other day that she showed them to me . |
| 25 | It was n't that she wanted him to be here with her . |
| 26 | She could not be certain that she wanted it to be true . |
| 27 | Mrs Barrie-Brown left Fresden to the Roman Research Trust , specifying in the codicil to her will that she wanted it to be turned into an educational centre . |
| 28 | when I spoke to about it she said that you told her to hand it over to my department cos it was a national account |
| 29 | She goes on slowly and naively : ‘ I 'm really glad , in a way , that you took me to that place . |
| 30 | It 's just that you wrote one to another girl . |