Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] that [pron] " 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 It just gives me hope that there are huge groups of people that feel exactly the same thing .
3 And like my parents sort of went , the thought that they gave them money that we had for it , yeah
4 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 .
5 I have to agree with my good-sister that it was exceptional . ’
6 ‘ It breaks my heart that his career has been ruined .
7 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 .
8 ‘ You 've won , Leo , ’ she managed quietly , ‘ and I hope with all my heart that you find it a pyrrhic victory . ’
9 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 .
10 I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are .
11 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 . ’
12 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 .
13 ‘ But I knew in my heart that I would have no chance against them and that they would be merciless .
14 It was a long and painful labour , and it broke my heart that I could do little to help her .
15 ‘ I could not accept in my heart that I had a problem , ’ she explains .
16 Now this was not a phrase I had ever used , but I hoped with all my heart that it was true .
17 I told my GP that I intended going to Bristol as soon as I was well enough .
18 If , on the other hand , I point to an object in my immediate surroundings and say " this chair " , then , unless I am deliberately lying or trying to mislead , I indicate an implicit assumption on my part that there is something out there , something external to my act of pointing , which I take to be a chair .
19 ‘ There has never been jealousy on my part that she has taken my mother 's place . ’
20 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 .
21 It proves my case that he has n't been in touch again .
22 It was my experience that they took an extremely passive line , waiting to see if the situation would change and the spouse return .
23 It 's my experience that everybody thinks how old everybody else is . "
24 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 .
25 ‘ 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 .
26 I 'll put my money that you will get fined at least once this year .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 He made such a great hole in my gum that he had to stitch me up afterwards . "
30 But the scorecards overwhelmingly supported my assessment that it was one-sided tedium .
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