Example sentences of "[pron] that [indef pn] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Early on , someone said to me that nobody really took AIDS seriously until someone they knew died through it and when the first ex-volunteer died , many of us felt the shock waves .
2 ‘ Listen , you do n't mean to tell me that everyone around here gets their reports in this form .
3 It seems to me that nothing really turns on the difference .
4 I went on my way happy after that — indeed , happier than I had been before I had seen the strange apparitions-and it occurred to me that somebody both less logical and less imaginative would have jumped to the conclusion that what they had seen were UFOs .
5 It never occurred to me that something quite extraordinary must be implicated in the charter if George Crowninshield was willing to pay such an egregious price for an out-of-season charter .
6 So it 's pretty obvious to me that someone else used this apartment in your absence ! ’
7 ‘ Because you 've found something out about them that nobody else knows ? ’
8 The knuckle bones , who knock everything that everybody else tries to do .
9 And we get songs that people send into the office and once in a while we 'll come up with something that somebody just sends us .
10 A reward needs to be something that you are in control of and you have the power to give yourself , rather than something that someone else can give you .
11 Similarly , Pfeffer has identified ‘ dependence ’ as crucial to a group 's power , when the importance of a unit 's tasks are greater than any other 's : ‘ Power derives from having something that someone else wants or needs , and being in control of the performance or resource so that there are few alternative sources , or no alternative sources , for obtaining what is desired ’ ( Pfeffer 1981 , p. 99 ) .
12 What if somebody erm , erm thinks of one that somebody else has thought of
13 An effective stress-reduction technique is one that works , not one that someone else says ought to work .
14 Now was her chance to let him see the image of herself that everyone else saw .
15 They were clumsy , hesitant lies , yet Simon had believed them : it did not occur to him that someone as stupid as Marie could ever successfully deceive him .
16 When we spoke I do n't think it ever occurred to him that anyone else could win , even though the Argentinian Ruiz had shot a fantastic 65 for the second round .
17 Remind yourself that everything else can wait .
18 I have n't got anything that no-one else has . ’
19 For the rest of the week it is given over to a different selection : good second-hand clothes , useful but redundant household articles , outgrown children 's toys plus almost anything that someone no longer needs and someone else might use .
20 Medical friends have told us that one very eminent medical researcher grows so enthusiastic when he shows colour slides of stools excreted by rural Africans that comments like ‘ look — are n't they beautiful ’ fly from his lips during his lecture .
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