Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I once gave a speech where I said that most of recorded music was like stuffed birds in a cage , that do n't sing . |
| 2 | What is more , the journey via New York and Los Angeles included a first leg of the marathon journey on a British Airways Concorde , where I enjoyed that extraordinary experience of arriving in Manhattan — thanks to the five hours time difference — more than an hour before the 10.30 am departure time from Heathrow . |
| 3 | So it was indeed a classic nightmare where I dreamt that I was the only person searching for the child , and the only person who saw that this vast Argosy was down near the coastline , and I landed in a most difficult position near the aircraft and found nobody else about . |
| 4 | I went along to the dining car where I found that Zak had already positioned some of the actors at the tables for the cocktail-hour double-length scene . |
| 5 | I read through my brother 's Readers Digest , where I learned that Stalin was a bad name . |
| 6 | And that 's when I felt that I wished I had of went for a career in the trade union or I felt that had I done that , I would have been satisfying something that was there . |
| 7 | This is confirmed by more detailed research evidence , for example Wenger 's ( 1984 ) study of elderly people living in rural North Wales , where she found that married and infirm people had distinctive patterns of personal support , where the spouse was the main helper for every task mentioned . |
| 8 | Another important exception can be found in Grieco 's ( 1987 ) data on the use of kin networks to secure employment , where she found that relatives as distant as cousins were as likely to be involved as close kin in arrangements which brought a number of male and female kin into the same workplace or firm . |
| 9 | She visited hospitals and schools , even a school for the deaf , where she boasted that she was President of the British Deaf Association . |
| 10 | ’ I just get guys saying , ’ Hey man , I love that film where you bit that guys neck and then you shot him in the head and his brains went spilling all over your face . |
| 11 | You say you did n't see the statuette , but you told Sergeant Bird earlier that your attention was directed towards that alcove , where you felt that someone was hiding … ’ |
| 12 | Why was it right to train a fellow and you knew , or you felt that , you could not go to the flight commander or the wing commander and say a think this fellow should go down the pits , " or a think we should remuster him to the Army or the Navy " . |
| 13 | You said that erm or you implied that it was important to stow the c the erm slates v v very carefully . |
| 14 | Th you said or you implied that the women were surprised that er that they could have power and you use it effectively . |
| 15 | The defendant must establish not only that the plaintiff consented to the risk but also that he or she agreed that if he or she was injured the loss should be his or hers and not the defendant 's . |
| 16 | This allowed an individual citizen to request that case be referred to the Constitutional Council if he or she felt that fundamental rights were being undermined . |
| 17 | We turned our ponies and galloped back to the Legation , where we learnt that news had just come in of a great victory for the Shoan army . |
| 18 | The first major place we reached was a city called Oradea where we realised that not much had changed in Romania since our last visit . |
| 19 | Where we said that looked ever so nice ! |
| 20 | The motives for bequests have been discussed in Lecture 3 , where we noted that the formulation underlying ( 9–12 ) provides no explanation as to why bequests enter the utility function . |
| 21 | If it could be shown , for instance , that we know sufficient about the deliberation of legislators , political and judicial , to be assured , for instance , that they were better informed than we are then this might be a reason for giving weight to the content of the law in deciding what is morally right or wrong in areas where we felt that we lacked sufficient knowledge . |
| 22 | In the extreme case , there is no mobility of labour at all ( as in Jones , 1971b ) , and the implications of such immobility for the incidence of the corporation tax have been examined in Section 6–4 , where we saw that implies that the return to capital definitely falls ( relative to p y ) as a result of the tax . |
| 23 | Moreover , many actual nationalizations were indeed objectively functional for the restructuring of parts of the economy ‘ no longer organised as capital ’ as Fine and O'Donnell ( 1981 ) put it ; and the British Conservatives only attempted to reverse the post-war Labour government 's efforts ‘ where we believed that a measure of nationalisation was a real hindrance to our island life ( Winston Churchill , cited in Weiner 1960 : 80 ) . |
| 24 | Four clutches where we suspected that hosts had ejected cuckoo eggs before we detected them ( as judged by the damage of host eggs ) were excluded from calculations of the number of cuckoo eggs per nest . |
| 25 | The journalists found especially useful a passage about Standard English where we explained that dialects obey their own grammatical rules . |
| 26 | The extent to which Louis VI and Louis VII had consolidated royal powers was masked from their contemporaries by their policy of pushing hard only where they knew that resistance was weak . |
| 27 | Second , it was open for employers to challenge the content of courses where they felt that it was irrelevant to industrial relations ( an option increasingly taken up by employers in the past five years ) . |
| 28 | This brought them to Teviot , in the Hawick area , where they learned that the Balliol company had passed there , avoiding the town , the morning before , having apparently camped at Goldielands just to the west . |
| 29 | Where they reported that they were able to see the present as better , existing symptoms were lower than average . |
| 30 | For the most part , parents mistakenly thought their children were not legally entitled to vote , despite having voting cards , or they judged that their children would not understand what it was all about . |