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

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1 If on the other hand you specify the languages in advance , you may be leaving out a language group in which there are people who want to train that you did not know of .
2 Those of us who have recollections of the cocktail party organised in conjunction with Lady Margaret Hall seem to remember that it went off rather well .
3 Elvis 's huge ballad repertoire needs little commentary here , save to stress that it began not with the move to RCA but at Sun , ‘ Love Me Tender ’ ( 1956 ) and ‘ That 's When Your Heartaches Begin' ( 1957 ) being preceded by equally sentimental ballads cut for Sam Phillips ; indeed , it began earlier — when , as a boy , Elvis was entered for a talent contest at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair , it was the sentimental country and western number ‘ Old Shep ’ that he sang .
4 wanting , you know say that I sent away for erm
5 I mean maybe soon after you maybe I 'll say look well you know blah blah blah you got you know I like saying that I did n't like kind of bloke but not like she 's such a fucking bitch and all this .
6 I do n't know why I became her friend , but I do know that we got on very well , + rarely ‘ fell out ’ .
7 I do know that he became very depressed when the times were bad and he had the mortgage payments to meet .
8 I heard that she lost one baby as well , and I do know that she suffered badly with her legs , varicose veins , I believe .
9 I do n't remember how they got us out of the apartment , but I do remember that we stopped somewhere before leaving Beirut where we were taped up and transferred to a false-bottomed truck .
10 At the same time , while accepting that tension between richer and poorer peasants was growing and that Stolypin 's reform created fierce friction between those who separated from the commune and those who remained within it , revisionists have stressed that it did not shake their common determination that noble land should be transferred into their hands .
11 I have talked to lady presidents of prior years who have said that they did not experience any difficulties .
12 Well I disagree in as much as I have said that I did n't have a shotgun and ignoring that fact then that I did n't have a shotgun she certainly did not make a lunge at me .
13 I have dreamed that I came back here — in twenty years .
14 In order to make this contract you now have to hope that he had precisely 3 Clubs , leaving him with precisely 3 Diamonds and that these Diamonds include the Queen .
15 I have to confess that I had not anticipated the direction that your inquiries were going to take and I feel that my immediate responses were fragmented and unhelpful .
16 We stood together in the entrance hall of the theatre where the show is produced , but I have to confess that I did n't recognize him .
17 It is not a sign of high status in a man 's world to be in charge of women only , but I have to confess that I did n't find it unpleasant .
18 I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door .
19 I have to say that I did n't see them in their homes prior to their being admitted at all .
20 ‘ I have to admit that she did n't seem overly impressed ! ’ was the good-natured response .
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