Example sentences of "[pers pn] [that] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I that it was you . |
| 2 | As you flung yourself on the bed , with legs spread wide apart , you cupped your rosebush with your hands and stroked it some more , murmuring all the while in that hoarse , cracked voice of yours that it was good , beautiful , a little treasure . |
| 3 | I had no experience of teaching art to anyone , but the headmaster assured me that it simply involved giving the boys some paints to play with and then telling them to get on with it . |
| 4 | It seems to me that it lacks somehow a soul or a purpose . |
| 5 | Since I knew that I was to have the privilege of addressing this seminar , I have studied with great textual care the document issued by the federation under the title Dear Fellow Citizen because it appeared to me that it was ‘ the brief ’ for what I was to say to you . |
| 6 | They let me have one last look and told me that it belonged to someone in another band — which made me feel really guilty . |
| 7 | Further , it makes me angry with myself to find that the perfectly natural and utterly unfair result is that I begin to dislike Paxford , no exercise of the will convincing me that it is not the unfortunate P. who is boring me with his views on everything under the sun . |
| 8 | He told me that it was necessary for them to start praying at home every day . |
| 9 | Mr Clarke , speaking on ITN 's News At Ten last night , tried to limit the damage from the disclosure , saying : ‘ All ministers , including David Trippier , agree with me that it can not be right that National Health Service pay can be determined by industrial action of this kind taken by militant trade unions . |
| 10 | You prove to me that it gives just the very impression I desired . |
| 11 | He had been just too young for the Korean War , and one day he told me that it was one of the experiences he regretted having missed . |
| 12 | You 're going to try to tell me that it was him , not you ? |
| 13 | A gardening friend tells me that it is possible to grow pineapples from their tops , but I have no idea how to do it . |
| 14 | ‘ Others have told me that it shows an old woman sitting looking out on a stormy sea from a tranquil cottage garden . |
| 15 | They told me that it was of no use to me any more and that I 'd be better off letting them have it . |
| 16 | When I read a novel the emotions aroused in me bring the experience of the events of the narrative into the present , but I am not likely to be misled into thinking it is actually happening for there are enough indicators in the environment to assure me that it is not . |
| 17 | ‘ The research results of the people who defined the structure of DNA — deoxyribonucleic acid — and others working in related fields suggested to me that it might be possible to identify specific genetic details in a newly fertilized human egg cell , since DNA is the substance of which genes are made . |
| 18 | When we hear of the Communist Party appealing for law and order it seems to me that it is a matter of Satan rebuking sin . |
| 19 | ‘ It seemed to me that it did not please you greatly when you first tasted it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It has no name , ’ Sapan said , ‘ but when I told some other people I brought here that it had no name , they said to me that it was called Narnia . ’ |
| 21 | John told me that it was a red-throated diver ; and those lovely creatures have remained favourites of mine ever since . |
| 22 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 23 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 24 | And so , from 1958 onwards , these characters became my dolls , and their way , of life and the houses they inhabited became so real to me that it was quite a shock when I occasionally returned to the place which had started it all , Wood Green , near Witney . |
| 25 | We chose retinoic acid because I met a friend , at a meeting , and he told me that it affected cell communication . |
| 26 | The form it 's taking is not extremely reactionary , I would n't want to say that , but it does seem to me that it 's shifting away from progressive forms of narrative resolution that were available a few years ago . |
| 27 | As much of the sulphurous pungency of garlic is also eliminated through the skin , it occurred to me that it might succeed in gassing the squatters out ! |
| 28 | It seems to me that it was the high-water mark of collective Cabinet government [ of ] the traditional type in recent times . |
| 29 | But , although I hoped very much that he would be here , it seemed to me that it mattered little whether one knew anybody in the camp or not . |
| 30 | Even at the time it seemed to me that it was pointless to be vindictive or even to allot responsibility for such happenings . |