Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Silas is still longing to go to bed with me , so you can wish me luck that I 'll get him there eventually — but in the right circumstances , of course . ’ |
| 2 | And like my parents sort of went , the thought that they gave them money that we had for it , yeah |
| 3 | Well , I 'd just been paid , so there was no problems about me having money to score , so I think I 'd just set me mind that I wanted to sort meself out once and for good . |
| 4 | I have to agree with my good-sister that it was exceptional . ’ |
| 5 | Although the neighbours made me feel like an evil , uncaring daughter , I knew in my heart that you 'd understand because you always did — I loved you and that was all you needed to know . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've won , Leo , ’ she managed quietly , ‘ and I hope with all my heart that you find it a pyrrhic victory . ’ |
| 7 | I sat in many a night myself when you were all younger , waiting for that piss artist of a father of yours to come home , knowing in my heart that he was down the Bayswater Road , spending desperately needed money on old brasses . |
| 8 | I wish with all my heart that I could go back and change that time , but I ca n't , I just ca n't . ’ |
| 9 | I never really appreciated the full meaning of the word ‘ vision ’ , until the day that I had felt so powerless to change the cruel reality facing my children and people in my community in Glasgow , that I started to wish with all my heart that I could go to sleep and never wake up again . |
| 10 | ‘ But I knew in my heart that I would have no chance against them and that they would be merciless . |
| 11 | It was a long and painful labour , and it broke my heart that I could do little to help her . |
| 12 | ‘ I could not accept in my heart that I had a problem , ’ she explains . |
| 13 | Now this was not a phrase I had ever used , but I hoped with all my heart that it was true . |
| 14 | I told my GP that I intended going to Bristol as soon as I was well enough . |
| 15 | ‘ There has never been jealousy on my part that she has taken my mother 's place . ’ |
| 16 | We never came to any agreement , but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matter during the course of such discussions , and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today . |
| 17 | It proves my case that he has n't been in touch again . |
| 18 | It was my experience that they took an extremely passive line , waiting to see if the situation would change and the spouse return . |
| 19 | You have absolutely nothing at all to do with it , and I resent sometimes the implications that there is this kind of artificial competitiveness amongst actors , because it 's been my experience that it does n't exist . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's only because it might hamper my investigations that I do n't invite you to tell Dysart about his wife 's in fidelity tomorrow . |
| 21 | I 'll put my money that you will get fined at least once this year . |
| 22 | I find it difficult in my notes that they 're all so mathematical , that you just read through lines and lines of equations and there 's very few sentences in between to explain what 's going on . |
| 23 | I had a bath , then had to wait to see this officer in charge , and because they read on my notes that I 'd barricaded , I was put on this wing like C1 . |
| 24 | He made such a great hole in my gum that he had to stitch me up afterwards . " |
| 25 | But the scorecards overwhelmingly supported my assessment that it was one-sided tedium . |
| 26 | It 's presenting to my superiors that I find really scary . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been told by my superiors that I could use it in the same way that I would to prosecute anyone found mistreating a dog . |
| 28 | I wonder if we could get away with telling my mum that we 'll go away for Christmas and New Year . |
| 29 | I think it 's only due to the way I was brought up by my mum that I did n't grow up with this real block , thinking it 's great to be white . |
| 30 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |