Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] that [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 No she said I 've got the second biggest co cock I mean that she 'd ever seen .
2 I expect that she knew too .
3 I am sure that I am not alone when I say that I learned more through the Iii-service courses organised by Basil Rocke than through my entire period of earlier , formal training .
4 ‘ Now do you believe me when I say that I did n't touch you in order to prove some theory about your boyfriend meaning nothing to you ? ’
5 Far from condemning this local authority I hold that they behaved properly and that their exercise of their difficult statutory role was properly performed .
6 I imagine that you did n't get the chance to do this properly , and then your sadness was complicated by two more people abruptly vanishing from your life .
7 I hope that I did not give the impression that a Bill could be amended in any way at all as that is not so .
8 I hope that you did n't find it too abstract .
9 I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for the way in which he presented his case to me , although I hope that he did not take away from our meeting any belief that I was totally persuaded by the argument that he put forward .
10 I was diagnosed as being asthmatic at the age of 48 , although on reflection I suspect that I had probably suffered mild intermittent symptoms in childhood .
11 I do not wish in any way to criticise you , and I appreciate that I applied today to ask such a question —
12 And I recall that I laughed aloud at that stage and I believe ( the agent ) joined me in that .
13 I recall that you brought up the suggestion and positively hammered at it . ’
14 I know that you came only to honour dear Crabb , at a small informal party , because he had been of assistance to your illustrious father , and valued his work at a time when it meant a great deal to him .
15 I know that you did n't shoot Michael Banks . ’
16 Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted .
17 I know that I went there when the change I have spoken of must have been already complete .
18 ‘ When I look back on 1992 I know that I did n't give 100 per cent , ’ Capriati confessed .
19 I know that I did n't make a mistake when I heard my telephone ringing last night .
20 But while I think it intrinsically unlikely that any of my co-habitees , if I my so describe them , should have committed murder , and I know that I did n't , I do n't know that I can help you very much . ’
21 But I , I , I know that I missed out on the , the private education one because I should 've come back on that .
22 I mean it was tough , life was tough for him and I know that he faced quite a lot of comments both of racist and other other things .
23 I am still dreaming of the white cotton lace bedspread that I have always promised to knit for my ‘ best friend ’ because I know that she had always wanted one .
24 representing that , but you know and I know that it did n't stay like that , I do n't know how long , but it did n't stay like it for very long because sin crept in , that circle was marred , it was twisted , that intermit original fellowship with God was broken , let me read you a verse there in Genesis chapter three and verse eight , it 's , it 's Adam and Eve it says they heard the sound of the lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord God among the trees of the garden , for the first time since Adam had first been created they hide from God , they hear him coming , it 's the time when God will come , and they hear him that were walking through the garden using picture language , and they go and hide , they 're ashamed to see him , they do n't want to look upon him , something has happened that perfect circle has been marred , what it was like yesterday , things are different now , there 's that unclean feeling , there 's that guilt complex , we 've done it wrong , we 've failed to keep what God 's said , we 've broken the rules and when you break the rules , it 's not just the rules that are broken is it , you know it and I know it , in relationships , it 's not just the rules that get broken , it 's the relationship is marred .
25 I remember that we got round to talking about historical hindsight , or the kind of attitude to which André Maurois ( to whom I was to introduce Eliot years later ) referred when he imagined a man saying ‘ Gentlemen , we are about to enter upon the Middle Ages ’ .
26 I remember that we did n't have a tap in the house but used a communal tap from which we had to fill two barrels in our garden .
27 I understand that you found out
28 ‘ And I believe that I began then to train myself to listen in the voice of somebody , or look through the outer facade .
29 Er certainly the surplus was used to er create a new scheme for the present contributing members and er to the maximum benefit of the new sponsoring company , which er in the pensioners view er certainly er caused a great lack of security to the fund in our view of what they have done and er it is of in our opinion a matter of public concern and that we welcome the opportunity and I believe that you said previously that you 're gon na come up on the ownership of surplus , so perhaps getting away from it
30 Strange as it seems , I believe that she had not done so for many years .
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