Example sentences of "[pers pn] [that] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have pressed the Minister on this matter both in correspondence and in a visit to the Department when he and his officials told me that they would reconsider it . |
| 2 | OK , I knew I was better than anyone in my school , but it never occurred to me that I might do it as a profession . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I had so many people telling me that I could do it — and I did ! |
| 4 | ‘ I had so many people telling me that I could do it — and I did ! |
| 5 | It occurred to me that you might plan it as one great central shed with bays let off it on each side . |
| 6 | When the apostles came down , they felt there was ‘ something more ’ for them and proceeded to lay hands on them that they might receive it . |
| 7 | They wanted to raise as much of this money as possible from the City ; Thornton assured them that he could fix it if they did what he said . |
| 8 | In an interview last week on the French radio station France Inter 's RadioCom program , Alcatel Alsthom NV president Pierre Suard indicated he did not rule out taking a stake in France Telecom if the latter is privatised by the next administration : ‘ I do n't think the question has been posed today , but when it is , I can tell you that we will study it very seriously , ’ Suard said — ‘ It is essential that France Telecom has a structure that enables it to extend itself beyond France and I think that can come from a new shareholder ; there is industrial logic in the ‘ world 's number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment ’ owning a stake in a telecommunications operator , ’ he added — ‘ It is the Anglo-Saxon logic ; AT&T is constructed on that basis , but up to now , it has not been European logic , ’ he said . |
| 9 | It was very good to have someone like that — someone who keeps pushing you and telling you that you can do it and not to be shy . ’ |
| 10 | Yet , in the context of the long-standing dispute of Aquitaine , Edward III 's claim was strong enough to persuade him that he ought to pursue it , if only as an alternative means of achieving sovereign rule in Aquitaine . |
| 11 | God , it hurt to think that their love-making meant so little to him that he could dismiss it with so little difficulty . |
| 12 | Having made sure from Miss Miggs that she would n't mind if the mistletoe in her apple-tree were sold , especially as it had never occurred to her that she could sell it , three excited Brownies hurried away from Sundial Cottage and did n't pause until they reached Anne 's father 's greengrocery shop . |
| 13 | Leith waited , very much wanting to invite Travis to join her and Naylor on their walk , but one glance at Naylor — who seemed determined not to invite Travis himself — told her that she 'd regret it if she did . |
| 14 | It amazed her that she should find it difficult to tell him . |
| 15 | Tell her that I shall keep it until I am an old man . |
| 16 | Apologize and promise her that he 'd make it up somehow — take her out to dinner ? |
| 17 | But anyway , they allowed this that they did n't have any further use for it that I could have it . |
| 18 | So absorbed , or intoxicated , was it that I used to photograph it with the other hand . |
| 19 | Having read the description of A Touch of Frost , how likely is it that you will watch it ? |