Example sentences of "and [that] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lunching with Lord Dynevor , I told him of my settled feeling that I am playing in the final of the FA Cup , that there are three minutes to go and that my team is 0-4 down . |
| 2 | Say you are my sister , that it may go well with me because of you , and that my life may be spared on your account' ( 12.11b-13 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose there are other girls who have had the same experience as me , and that my talking about it in this book might help them feel less isolated . |
| 4 | I wrote to the effect that I did indeed look forward to life with him , and that my guidelines for living were the same as his . |
| 5 | So he answered that that might not be , that he would have me whether I would or no , and that my brother was of his opinion in this matter . |
| 6 | I should explain here that I am one of two brothers — and that my elder brother , Leonard , was killed during the Southern African War while I was still a boy . |
| 7 | I have learnt that the sun and the stars are eternally good , and that my body leaps in contact with this sparkling world and everything that it contains from the minds of Beethoven and Shakespeare to food and drink and a soft night 's sleep . |
| 8 | I will understand that my identity in the image of God is secure and that my life has special value … |
| 9 | I could n't find out anything about him , not even where he lived , though I told him my entire address ( 17 Daffodil Cottages , Bourton-on-the-Water ) and my age ( nineteen ) and that my parents were in Saudi Arabia where my father was computerising oil production . |
| 10 | It is as if my body has not reacted as it is supposed to do , and that my mind is not as strong as it was in 1991 . |
| 11 | I hoped , as we said goodbye , that he would suffer no psychological ill-effects from the deception , and that my exposure of it would not impair his relationship with his mother . |
| 12 | Dally goes as far as to state that it indicates a bad prognosis for the disease , but I am glad to be able to report that although my jealousy continued into my adolescence , including the anorexic period , it did not deter my recovery , and that my sisters and I are now the best of friends . |
| 13 | Although I had wanted to go away and agreed to go away , when the time came I also felt that I was being pushed out of the nest , and that my parents were glad to be rid of me , in that there would be one fewer person to cater for . |
| 14 | But it is impossible for me not to feel that my body is other than I , that I inhabit it like a house , and that my face is a mask which , with or without my consent , conceals my real nature from others . ’ |
| 15 | I suspect that my parents simply took my word and my active behaviour as proofs of my essential health , and that my non-eating was something I would grow out of and could therefore be ignored . |
| 16 | I realized that I had a splitting headache and that my knee joints were uncertain of their purpose when I stood up . |
| 17 | So , it came as something of a disappointment when a Ms Mel Chevannes , who ran a black supplementary school in the West Midlands , wrote to the Wolverhampton Express and Star to protest at my testing ‘ hypotheses that black people are ‘ happy-go-lucky or very physical in their outlook ’ ’ and that my aims were to ‘ damage even further the life chances of black children ’ ( 25 June 1980 ) . |
| 18 | Charlie did not know , at that time that I had also been hit in the chest and that my right lung had been punctured and had collapsed ’ . |
| 19 | I was given a brisk homily by the sister in charge about how ill Toby was , and that my allowance was no more than ten minutes . |
| 20 | I told him I was in my first year and that my curriculum to date had been based around mastering the basics of Swahili , its grammar , basic vocabulary and syntax . |
| 21 | In this case it looks as though in fact there were " captains of thousands " and " captains of hundreds " , and that my metonymy or by abbreviation " thousand " has been used for " captains of thousands " ad " hundreds " . |
| 22 | I had grown up believing that my father had been a great patriot who had died for Ireland , but she told me that Dermot was n't my father , and that my father was someone who hated the Irish and the idea of Irish independence . " |
| 23 | Then I saw that the hills were my legs , and that my head was being pushed between them . |
| 24 | and that my parents have the thing , it arrived Thursday morning , |
| 25 | I assured him that the man concerned had as good or as bad claims as anyone on the List and that my remarks were not addressed to him . |
| 26 | But I was surprised to discover on my first full day at Thornfield that Mrs Fairfax was not in fact the owner , as I had assumed , but the housekeeper , and that my new master was a Mr Rochester , who was often away from home . |
| 27 | I learnt later that it was the island of Trinidad , and that my island was in the mouth of the River Orinoco on the north coast of South America . |
| 28 | JEWKES : O , you are very good , sir , very forgiving indeed , but come , I hope you will be so good as to take her to your bosom and that my tomorrow morning you 'll bring her to a better sense of her duty . |
| 29 | I thought that I had n't chosen to get married at all but that Syl had chosen to marry me , since it was time for him to marry and I offered no threat to the way and integrity of his life and character , and that my mother had chosen to see me wed because I was good for little else . |
| 30 | ‘ That I can be of help , that she is delighted to have me here and that my presence can be of great comfort to her during these very trying times . |