Example sentences of "[pron] that [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah so anyway and I said that 's not very nice so we were talking this morning about her and I had to tell Ann did n't I that she drove to work three days on a trot in her bleeding lights two .
2 that Robert 's already gone over , but I actually got the impression that erm I that you did n't feel relaxed in what you were doing , you knew what you were talking about but erm you did n't feel relaxed and if I 'd 've been your customer then I , I certainly would n't have felt relaxed either and and that 's the impression that I got which was the completely opposite of Robert .
3 ‘ For nothing , David , ’ said Julia , knowing that it was her fault and not his that they had got so near the brink .
4 Robert merely had to drop a few bon mots from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi 's handbook into the conversation and Maisie 's eyes widened the way they did when you offered to take her out for a meal or when she was telling you how someone had told someone that she had a beautiful mouth .
5 Nothing that they sought eluded them , no matter the price .
6 While Wasps could relax and enjoy their Goldington Road romp , Bedford learned nothing that they did not know already .
7 She ‘ takes in ’ children in her house at Brighton , and is known as ‘ a great manager ’ of children ; the secret of that management was ‘ to give them everything they did n't like , and nothing that they did ’ .
8 It was only after they had peered into and groped about in what they felt certain was the right cave but found nothing that they decided to withdraw into the trees and wait for the dawn .
9 ‘ as if nothing that I 'd ever done mattered , only that I was here , part of the earth , at one with it , as they say .
10 Nothing that I thought of seemed adequate , but in the end I decided to keep it simple .
11 ‘ I could find nothing that I knew to be untrue .
12 ‘ I saw you , it means nothing that I saw you …
13 yeah , those erm potato waffles , I tried them once , nothing that I did ,
14 " It was n't dull , " said Clara , " there is nothing , nothing that I wanted to hear more .
15 Looking to her for comfort was like looking through a drawer for something which you knew was not there because you had looked so often before : you knew what was there — in painful and tedious detail — but there was nothing that you wanted .
16 The outcome of the local government election showed little change for the main parties , and SDLP MP Eddie McGrady said the Secretary of State would see the results revealed nothing that he did not already know .
17 It was not for nothing that he paid house insurance .
18 I was greatly impressed by the high level of commitment to the achievement of success by everyone that I met .
19 And of course I had to admit in front of everyone that I did n't .
20 It was , of course , what he tried to do with everyone that he thought worth the trouble .
21 Beth enriched the lives of everyone that she met , always showing concern for others , never complaining , always smiling , living life to the full .
22 The mother who swore to everyone that she loved her children !
23 I telephoned the prison , and Prison Officer Draycott told me that nobody had telephoned from there .
24 The pure white drifts of snow against the door of the hut convinced me that nobody had been that way recently .
25 ‘ Was she lying , then , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ when she told me that nobody taught her to multiply or to read ?
26 My parents once told me that they lived on the Canary Islands for a little while but I do n't think I was born just yet .
27 It seemed to me that they assumed and air of could n't care less you know that that was their attitude after nationalization .
28 The Crickets told me that they enjoyed the show .
29 And it surprises me that they took him into the Force , 'cos he 's made no secret of it an' you know yourself how they 're thought about . ’
30 One man told me that they left a rough sort of ramp at one side of the corn , and the horse slid down this on to the middlestead .
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