Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] that [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He feasted for months , for years , on a small pair of my slippers that I gave him ; I expect he has burnt them by now . |
| 2 | I see from my files that you asked us to reserve a copy of the OALDCE 3/e computer tape for your the University of Edinburgh . |
| 3 | Early in my first tour I argued with my colleagues that I doubted it would be possible to ditch a Wimpy or a Whitley on water , particularly if there was a heavy swell . |
| 4 | I had beaten so many of my idols that I hope it does n't sound too arrogant to say that I was proud of my performance . |
| 5 | They complained so much that not enough time had been allowed them for their discussions that we had them back a second week . |
| 6 | Ruth did not have to finish what she had begun to say ; she saw from the look in their eyes that they understood her . |
| 7 | She looked so pornographic in her gimmicks that I wanted her to take them off again , or better , much better , push bits of them aside . |
| 8 | Vortigern was so taken by her charms that he took her for his wife . |
| 9 | I had few friends , just one or two left over from school , but on the infrequent occasions when we met I could see from their faces that they pitied me , finding me foolish and Syl a bore . |
| 10 | Shiona could see from his eyes that he meant it . |
| 11 | Was he really so unbelievably sure of his charms that he thought he had only to indicate his wishes for them to be fulfilled ? |
| 12 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 13 | I reckon he has got a law case on his hands that he thinks he might lose . |
| 14 | One essential was that the head had to make it clear to his colleagues that he trusted them . |
| 15 | He himself admitted so when he emerged , telling his followers that he thought he had killed Comyn , whereupon one of them rushed in ‘ to mak siccar ’ ( make sure ) : the Kirkpatricks of Dumfries have ever since carried the emblem of a bloody hand with dagger and the motto ‘ I mak siccar ’ on their coat of arms . |
| 16 | If you do give your heroine this skill you will have to some extent to prove to your readers that she had it . |
| 17 | While it is through the physical senses that we experience the world , it is largely through our emotions that we interpret it and our relationship to it . |
| 18 | We believe that it can only be in our interests that they get it right . |
| 19 | On the other hand , T. Rex might have looked really good but everything else about them was so naïve and teenybopperish that you could n't really admit to your mates that you liked them . |
| 20 | After all , if those two boys had died , it would have been on our consciences that we saw them get into difficulty and did nothing . |