Example sentences of "that [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact for only 13 per cent was it not much of a whole-school effort , suggesting that mostly it did operate in the way intended . |
| 2 | It went on so long that finally I did undress and started to give in to the sleep I could feel coming on me . |
| 3 | The irony is that often they do have the liturgy although they have not woken up to it . |
| 4 | He says little about it , but I do n't think that there is very much doubt that intellectually he did exhaust himself . |
| 5 | It was a weird , time , with white rastas , art-school escapees , old rockers and punk fanzine costermongers coming together to discover that maybe they did have something in common after all . |
| 6 | It is true that sometimes he does attack innate ideas ; but this is merely an indirect strategy . |
| 7 | I feel that sometimes I do try to play God when I do try and keep people alive beyond reasonable times . |
| 8 | You wanted to wake up with him right there in the room and to turn to him and quote the next line of the film right back at him , to whisper it to him , make me almost believe that we are a pair of young lovers without any shame , and I do n't mean that in some tragedy queen way , but in order to say of Boy that truly I do think that it is a beauty like his that makes it all worth while , and I do feel that if we are fighting for anything , and if I was asked in a questionnaire what it was I was fighting for ( and believe me I do feel like I am fighting , more and more I think that ) , then I would answer , beauty . |
| 9 | ‘ I suspect that actually she does remember more than she ever lets on . ’ |
| 10 | On the street again , suddenly I felt I was in the middle of a farce — ‘ POLICE SEARCH FOR THE BIG BANANA IS ON — and the discovery that actually I did have my cheque numbers in my moneybelt and that it was the photocopies that had been stolen made me almost light-headed . |