Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] [verb] [pron] that " in BNC.

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1 I think you 're , you 're often asked to do reactive tasks when I 've done all my tasks , you know I 've got all my staff doing this , and then I 've got to help down on the shopfloor , and it 's not that I 'm doing something that I 'm , you know , I should be doing as a manager , it 's that I 've done all of mine , and I 'm going out to give them a hand .
2 Her host repeated that she was to order anything that she wanted and she stared at the words on the card , taking none of them in .
3 ‘ I can assure residents that we are doing everything that is possible to ensure their comfort in the short-term .
4 As they clung together in that unutterable pleasure , he felt that they were defying everything that had persecuted them .
5 And and lots of churches that he was telling us that he 'd been in contact with .
6 I agree what Rita asked for which was that it should all be archived in a central divisional higher , and I am taking it that they I think that the way we generally go about it that when we do n't get an enquiry erm , or when we do n't get a commission we keep a copy of it with the documents for a reasonable period of time .
7 Now I have , and I 'm telling you that if you marry him then you 'll be committing the biggest mistake in your brief little life . ’
8 and I was telling her that that was the daughter-in-law of Mrs who lived there before
9 And I was telling you that such a suggestion was utter nonsense . ’
10 If I were to tell you that this record puts a dayglo platform DM so far up the mule 's rectum that its entrails squish through its clenched teeth , I do n't think that I could be justly accused of exaggeration .
11 Well , how would you feel if I was to tell you that within the policy it was possible that the sum could be paid , it might even be paid up before death .
12 Cos I was telling her that you bought one she said oh why did n't you tell her , she could have had mine .
13 Cos I was telling them that we were sick of seeing the rain and that .
14 ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently .
15 I was talking to a screw one day and she was telling me that when she 'd wanted to get work in prison she thought she 'd be there to help prisoners .
16 The thing is if you 're getting one that 's lived in you 're most likely to get the carpets and things like that in .
17 And if you 're putting him right over clubs , you 'd better be 101 percent right if you 're telling him that what he 's got in mind is the wrong thing .
18 Not that it 's ‘ the mark ’ in a register that 's important but if you 're teaching something that 's worthwhile there 's progress presumably being made .
19 ‘ Well , if you 're tellin' me that our cellar leads out to the East River , then it follows that the East River leads to our cellar , and it could just happen that somebody would leave a door open somewhere , and we 'd have the whole of the East River down round our feet . ’
20 If you were to tell me that there are people , like the man upstairs to whom you now threaten to turn yourself in , who actually do have a strong sense of themselves , I would have to tell you that they are only impersonating people with a strong sense of themselves — to which you could correctly reply that since there is no way of proving whether I 'm right or not , this is a circular argument from which there is no escape .
21 Look at the implications looking back over it when when Fire and Public Protection had produced their report , but certainly the things are and it 's quite clear that we all know this case in my particular the river has been constricted by some thoroughly bad planning decisions and development control districts and they 're paying them that the owners are paying the penalty for that erm reducing the ditches and er building over them and okay we 've got problems erm so er there are structure plan implications erm which I do n't I think we should miss and if we say that really building on a is a principle well then we should try it right into the structure plan or looking at local plans for approval that we actually look at this a little bit more carefully .
22 Warning us all about this , so well I thought well if they warn us , something must be good here , if they 're warning us that it 's bad you know .
23 If they are expecting something that they have n't got , it may well be that their expectation is wrong .
24 If they are expecting something that they have n't got , it may well be that their expectation is wrong .
25 Buttons reached for it and it was n't until they were flying it that Artemis saw the four-foot drop the other side .
26 Yeah , yeah , well he 's I interviewed him er last year and he was telling me that he remembers going up into the loft in 's erm , the whole of the station yard was full of cattle .
27 In trying to sort out this problem I was driven to delving through old logbooks , and it was reading them that made me realise just how often we had based ourselves in the area .
28 Ah well it 's definitely , it 's sounds like a , if it 's doing it that it sounds like an inflammation on the nerves right enough .
29 confessed to having initially found ‘ prima facie perverse and incomprehensible ’ — was that a police officer is not acting in the execution of his duty if he is doing something that he is not compelled by law to do .
30 But you were telling me that there 's a lot of research that goes on in the universities .
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