Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 After a while Lily began to talk , and I realized that she understood nothing of what I had said about the war .
2 Automatically I checked that I had plenty of fuel myself .
3 He confirmed that you knew nothing about any of it .
4 She had lean flanks and no tummy , and I could see from the way her breasts moved slightly when she walked that she wore nothing underneath her blouse ; I also had the feeling that she knew instantly that I knew .
5 Owen confessed that it became something of a joke to say , at the end of telephone calls , ‘ Say hello to our friend Ivan . ’
6 The severity of her head injuries — when found she had lost 75 per cent of her blood and remained unconscious for almost six weeks — meant that she remembered nothing of the attack .
7 I felt that I needed someone to be with me all day and all night .
8 ‘ I do n't see why I should , ’ he replied , but , to make her heart spurt , even though she knew that he meant nothing by it , ‘ But for you , I will , ’ he added .
9 He turned to look at Myeloski , peering urgently out of the window as the traffic stacked up and made movement impossible , and knew that he had nothing in common with these people , nothing that could be shared because of his blood .
10 I thought that they appointed somebody in charge .
11 Then in a tobacconist 's window she saw ‘ cigars ’ marked fourpence and thought that they looked something like the kind she had seen Chignell buying the other night .
12 Major insisted that he knew nothing of the BCCI fraud before June 28 , 1991 , when he was informed by the Bank of England .
13 Mrs. Steed , too , insisted that she knew nothing of the sale .
14 She denied that she knew anything about the power of attorney .
15 She explained that she wanted someone outside her family to know about them in case anything should happen to her before she would be able to raise the issue with someone with influence in Northern Ireland .
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