Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that [pron] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank . |
| 2 | So obsessed was he with the details of administration that he saw nothing inappropriate , while Governor-General of Nigeria , in personally composing a memorandum on the issue of chamber pots to second-class administrative officers : he was , he said , against it . |
| 3 | Horsley cheerfully admitted when he took up the post of Chair that he knew nothing about newspapers . |
| 4 | George Eliot clearly admires the one at Cheverel Manor , ‘ which was so bare of furniture that it impressed one with its architectural beauty like a cathedral ’ . |
| 5 | They had made love , and it had been so utterly different from his other experiences of sex that he thought something wonderful had happened . |
| 6 | It was a photograph of a portrait by Van Dyck — the portrait of a boy about fifteen — a young Prince Ruprecht von der Pfaltz of Bavaria and he was so like Lionel that it brought one 's heart into one 's mouth . |
| 7 | You see , an island like Hodges is so occupied with copra that it produces nothing else . |
| 8 | She knew from experience that he took everything seriously . |
| 9 | So what I 'm saying is , is getting a delivery if you ca n't get something there in time I mean , it may mean that you know in advance that you need something done and you can deliver in a normal working week , but maybe it 's inconvenient in a normal working week . |
| 10 | It was incredible , so incredible , so lost in time that it did something to me — changed my perspective , my outlook , something strange that even now I barely understand . |
| 11 | An example may help : property could be left to somebody on condition that he did something . |
| 12 | If I 'd suggested to Manuela that we murder someone , she would no doubt have gone along with it as she went along with everything else I suggested . |
| 13 | Rufus had suggested to Adam that he sell something out of the house , a piece of china or some silver . |
| 14 | It was only when they reached the turning to Sansepolcro that he felt something hard underneath his foot . |