Example sentences of "that [pers pn] belong [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that I possessed a sidereal compass and that I belonged to another world . |
| 2 | Yes , a lot was happening in 1933 , but my arrival still managed to create a bit of a stir in the ordinary , working-class South London family that I belonged to . |
| 3 | It was unbearable that the gallery girl should imagine that I belonged to Syl , that his glances and suggestive remarks had ensnared me . |
| 4 | Although I had seen you , Frankenstein , for only a few moments , I knew that I belonged to you . |
| 5 | They were trying to insinuate that I belonged with the psychiatric patients . |
| 6 | Our metabolic differences were once explained to us by a Dyak companion in Borneo as due to the fact that I belong to the tribe of gibbons , whereas Lorne belongs more to that of the orangutan . |
| 7 | But I feel better already , now that I belong to such a great and good queen . ’ |
| 8 | That I belong to a sort of band of people who have to stand against all the rest . |
| 9 | ' It is not , therefore , presumptuous to say with quiet confidence , ‘ I know that I belong to Christ . |
| 10 | The clerk , realising from Mirsal 's uniform that I belong to the sacred official class , merely bows his head to the storm , pays up and looks pleasant . |
| 11 | I was , I was off on , on Sunday , I mean I 've joined yet another marriage agency , off on last Sunday to Latherham , with another nice old chap , you know , erm , I , I go out with erm , women friends , we , I 've arranged , er there 's one very , very good place that does lunches , run by a couple of homosexuals and erm , old age pensioners on Tuesday get , get a lunch , an eight pound lunch , for four pounds , so four friends , three friends and myself are going for a special Christmas lunch that they do , fortnight ago we went for a lunch with the group of the town 's women 's guild and friends , erm , my women 's group that I belong to over at the village of which is run by the television actress er Helen Fraser |
| 12 | I do n't know how he found out that she belonged to that lass , but find out he has . |
| 13 | She knew , in that instant , that she belonged to Benedict , to this conqueror of her mind , her heart and her flesh . |
| 14 | That she belonged to some time , when I was a little kid , that had somehow been barred from my memory . |
| 15 | When pressed to give her views on Fatima , the daughter of the prophet Mohamad ( whose birthday is Women 's Day in Iran ) she praised Fatima but added that she belonged to 14 centuries ago . |
| 16 | ‘ That was important to her , I suppose she could convince herself that you belonged to her . ’ |
| 17 | Penny , tuppence , three ha'penny returns and every denomination of tickets was recorded so that you so showed the erm number of tickets , erm it was possible for a at the end of the week to record what the takings were , per route and the mileage and so , as I told you before , the mileage played a great importance in that you were able to say how much that route was producing per mile run and the erm , in those days it , the erm the receipts worked out , daily receipts , weekly receipts and the progressive total in that year , were always published by the Ipswich Evening Star , round about Tuesday or Wednesday and if you missed them , there 'd be somebo member of the public ringing up to why , answer why you had n't put it in , it was , you know , looked upon then you were , were public transport and the public team that you belonged to them . |
| 18 | The chances are that you belong to one of the groups Derek Dean has identified . |
| 19 | The operation itself is usually purely formal , and only just stirs up enough dust to make you cough a little , but it is a sign that you belong to the higher or fit-to-be-dusted classes . |
| 20 | In just a couple of days you 'll find your feet and get that special feeling that you belong in your Club . |
| 21 | I think we have to remember at all times that we belong to a profession in which there can not be qualifications . |
| 22 | The possibility that we belong to such a so-called noumenal realm ( that is , a realm of things in themselves ) in our true being , also suggests dimly how it can be possible that ultimately we are free agents , who can cause ourselves to act according to the moral law , whatever the pressures upon us , in spite of the fact that at the level of appearance we are simply parts of the natural order of cause and effect , and as such merely animals impelled by our instinctive desires |
| 23 | The seal of the Spirit is meant to assure us that we belong to Christ , and to let others also know the fact . |
| 24 | We 've taken a much more active role in the European Federation that we belong to , the Building and Woodworkers ' Federation and as our conference will know , or some colleagues in congress will know we 've actually had |
| 25 | You know that we belong to a century when men are only valued for what is in them . |
| 26 | As neighbours of the enormously powerful and expansionist United States , the Canadians had a direct and abiding interest in maintaining for their part the fiction that they belonged to the same political entity of the rich and powerful United Kingdom . |
| 27 | Two Afghans , among several arrested trying to cross the border , ‘ admitted that they belonged to an intelligence group entrusted with the organisation of an underground anti-Soviet movement in Tadjikistan , whose purpose was to turn the republic into an Islamic state ’ . |
| 28 | Two Afghans , among several arrested trying to cross the border , ‘ admitted that they belonged to an intelligence group entrusted with the organisation of an underground anti-Soviet movement in Tadjikistan , whose purpose was to turn the republic into an Islamic state ’ . |
| 29 | Insults apart , the kernel of the argument was that , whereas More considered the Scriptures to be committed to the Pope and hierarchy for interpretation , Tyndale believed that they belonged to every Christian , who would be guided in understanding them by the spirit of God . |
| 30 | Or they could tell themselves that they belonged to a European Community from which they were in fact , until very recently , separated by a long stretch of communist-occupied territory ; and that too was not exactly convincing . |