Example sentences of "that [subord] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Nutting , prosecuting , said that although he said nothing to detectives after his arrest , with a lock knife in his hand , they later found a chilling message daubed on his police cell wall . |
| 2 | Before they started , he had warned his people on this , pointing out that if they allowed themselves to be delayed , they themselves would be in grave danger of being ridden down by their own fellows on the return charge . |
| 3 | I think you 'll agree you 're in a much stronger position that if you left it for months , and then went back . |
| 4 | He warned me that if I told anyone about it , he would just deny it outright . |
| 5 | But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . ) |
| 6 | I suppose I knew what your reaction would be , but thought in my arrogance that if I presented you with a fait accompli , the sale of the land , your money back , you 'd be so overwhelmed with gratitude that you 'd immediately fall into my arms . ’ |
| 7 | It was because he told me he had seen a woman more beautiful than me , and said that if I wanted him as a husband , I must marry him at once ! |
| 8 | ‘ Alex felt that if I selected him for the Poland game , he should play and try to help us get the result before announcing his retirement , and that was Bryan 's intention . ’ |
| 9 | At the back of my mind I must have hoped that if I telephoned him in advance , Helmut would help in this way . |
| 10 | I found that if I immersed myself in what I was doing , the people respected my work and usually kept quiet , aware of my concentration . |
| 11 | The fabric was so delicate that if she wore it without a brassiere you could just see the outline of her nipples . |
| 12 | At first he was really quiet but I kinda changed that because I treated him like my brother by punching him ! ’ |
| 13 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 14 | How we stumbled on this was that when we grew some of these algae at Plymouth with our colleagues there , we found that when we grew them at one temperature then these two molecules were present in a certain ratio but when we changed the water temperature then the er ratio changed . |
| 15 | Seto explained quite seriously that when one admired something in a friend 's house it customarily became his . |
| 16 | ‘ You must have realised that when you summoned him to your hotel to break the news — ’ |
| 17 | I swear to you that when I kissed you in Ib 's Club it was simply because I could n't resist the temptation . |
| 18 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 19 | I did erm , mention , I think on one of them which was the erm Tim , this is the upstairs , I did actually mention that when I saw it to Roger . |
| 20 | Yes , you said that when I saw you at the station , ha ! ha ! ’ |
| 21 | I overcame this problem quite easily in the end : I just gave her less for supper when she was off my hand , got her weight down , say , half an ounce , and built up her appetite , so that when I had her on my fist she 'd be hungry . |
| 22 | I knew that when I sold it to you . ’ |
| 23 | I asked that when I bought it of course . |
| 24 | And their shared taste for rich cake with coffee late at night restored her faith in their friendship a little , so that when he asked her about her family 's plans for Christmas she was able to answer in a relaxed and natural way . |
| 25 | We were sitting on rather low chairs , and he was very tall , so that when he placed himself at my corner his impedimenta were almost on a level with my nose . |
| 26 | She had forced him to live against the grain of his own nature which was weak and pleasure-loving and stubborn with it , so that when she beat him for laziness or lying , he became more determinedly idle and sullen . |
| 27 | Sid gave a growl and informed that as I knew nothing about modern techniques he had brought ‘ the lot . ’ |