Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [adv] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought she knew herself very well , but faced with God she realized that she knew virtually nothing . |
| 2 | When they did converse , she said little and mostly listened ; it had only recently struck Angelica that she knew almost nothing more about Alina now than she had at the end of that first day . |
| 3 | The everyday school uniform , now useless , meant that one had hardly anything to wear ! |
| 4 | Not necessarily : ‘ I do n't think I meant that even the people who have no caveats attached implied that they knew absolutely everything in the box . |
| 5 | Chief among them , and born of the group 's increasing feeling that they stood far something , embattled against a hostile world , was their tendency not only to see merit where none existed ( in the poetry of Fox , for example ) , but actually to think that belonging to the group — which began at around this period to be known as the Inklings — was in itself a sort of merit . |
| 6 | Yet I knew a Wiltshire man who said that he burned hardly anything else ; and it was very fine , he said , when well seasoned . |
| 7 | Since he believed that he personified Iran , it was not surprising that he saw almost everything in terms of personal betrayal . |
| 8 | By the time Louise returned to the kitchen to tell him that his mother was ready to go home Constance felt that he knew absolutely everything about her , but had revealed nothing of himself . |
| 9 | The fact that he knew absolutely nothing about the airline business was neither here nor there . |
| 10 | You know he 'd far prefer to have the cheap workforce that you could tell exactly and appear to know what he 's talking about , whereas the older men knew that he knew absolutely nothing . |
| 11 | ‘ There are things in there — paintings — that he 'd sooner no-one saw ? ’ |