Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 61 | For example , when Perk disappeared she was wearing a yellow dress and it was only after the second time that I realised the significance of Gail ( Perk 's older sister ) finding a yellow ribbon in Mr Elder 's ( the lodger ) drawer . |
| 62 | It was probably this occasion which prompted Lloyd George to write of Balfour : ‘ I confess that I underrated the passionate attachment to his country which burnt under that calm , indifferent , and apparently frigid exterior ’ ; upon which Balfour 's latest biographer has somewhat severely commented : ‘ By ‘ passionate attachment to his country , ’ Lloyd George , presumably meant Balfour 's backing for him as Prime Minister … ’ |
| 63 | I greeted my cousin 's suggestion that I drive with him and his family to Italy for a skiing holiday with some apprehension . |
| 64 | Rain said : ‘ My conscience dictates that I drive down the Cap and interview Peter Leary . |
| 65 | Well our pits there 's a lot of water but it 's , it 's mostly body sweat and s I do get some water off a , a machine that I drive . |
| 66 | I admire his talents ; I 'm not sure that I trust the uses he will put them to . ’ |
| 67 | ‘ My friends are people that I trust and I do n't have to put on airs with them — they know me and do n't assume that I 'm a terrific snob if I happen to be very quiet . ’ |
| 68 | ‘ It 's much more hilly that I expected , much more severe , more than anyone said to me , ’ said Montgomerie . |
| 69 | I would begin Spanish now just to reassure myself that I expected a future in which I could pick up past threads . |
| 70 | The natural justification of my choice between the fruit would be something like ‘ The peach looked delicious ’ , which conveys the full information that I expected to be responding in accord with ‘ Be aware ’ until the last trace of the flavour faded from my mouth . |
| 71 | ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped . |
| 72 | And she thumped the cake down so hard in front of me that I expected the plate to shatter . |
| 73 | Harold asked the question that I expected ; ‘ If they wo n't meet Barbara , who will they meet ? ’ |
| 74 | Not that I expected any . |
| 75 | In the Sunday Mail we read that I had said ‘ I am a fascist and proud of it , ’ that I expected ‘ a blood-soaked campaign ’ and that ‘ lots of violence ’ would be ‘ all right with me ’ . |
| 76 | I was talking to him about that and I got a totally different response from him that I expected did n't mind . |
| 77 | In effect , all my mother 's female paternal kin are called by the same term that I apply to my ‘ mother ’ ; and all her male paternal kin are designated ‘ mother 's brother ’ without reference to their generational position . |
| 78 | If , for example , I call my mother' brother 's son by the same term that I apply to my mother 's brother , the implication is that I share a common relationship with both . |
| 79 | Had she insisted that I apply leeches to her son I could not have felt more disturbed , more unwilling to assist at this medieval rite . |
| 80 | ‘ I was so annoyed that I blurted out : ‘ Good God ! |
| 81 | ‘ It confirmed that I don ‘ t exercise enough and suggested a programme of swimming and walking . |
| 82 | Most reviewers were distracted by the ‘ satires ’ of the title , written earlier and in a very different mood , which Hardy came to regret as injuring ‘ the others that I cared most about ’ . |
| 83 | I had about five barges to look after and you could n't see everyone — not that I cared so very much , to tell the truth . |
| 84 | Not that I cared . |
| 85 | Not that I cared , for I was doing my own fuming . |
| 86 | Not that I cared . |
| 87 | Not that I cared much for the way he kept them . |
| 88 | Maybe I would never be able to return to the present — not that I cared just then . |
| 89 | It 's rather like the scene that I penned at the beginning of this column . |
| 90 | the way that I deserve . |