Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I have used them enough to observe that the properly selected remedy works deeply , quickly , smoothly , and without initial aggravation . |
| 2 | It did not take me long to wish that we Christians might have a similar preparation for confirmation and acceptance as a full worshipping and working member of the Church . |
| 3 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |
| 4 | Some of them apparently feel that the move flies in the face of the philosophy expressed in the document prepared by the task force which examined the way ahead for BBC Scotland . |
| 5 | Lee lead Meryl towards them only to find that she resisted furiously . |
| 6 | Immigrant rooms should be well ventilated and the interior of them so designed that they may be easily cleaned . |
| 7 | ‘ I shall not , ’ said Sally-Anne grandly , ‘ reproach you , Dr Neil , for rescuing me merely to ensure that I shall carry on skivvying for you . |
| 8 | I 've never met Sir Brian or Sir Oliver and have only met Sir Bernard a few times , but I instinctively feel that all six would lay down their lives without hesitation for a damsel in distress . |
| 9 | I little thought that fresh intrusions would interrupt and spoil my solitudes . |
| 10 | I naïvely thought that we had something special going for us . |
| 11 | When I light-heartedly suggest that he should use Klan members who still harass him for target practice , Cash is genuinely shocked . |
| 12 | The audience held its breath … and I secretly prayed that the manager would support me — unlike her counterpart at the Philharmonic Hall who earlier this year asked a young disabled woman to leave the hall because she ‘ offended ’ the visiting conductor . |
| 13 | But may I politely suggest that in future they beat their meat in the privacy of their own studio instead of soiling our evening with such toss ? |
| 14 | We have an awkward , and increasingly tense discussion about the use of such songs — for though I wholeheartedly agree that all the ideas they promote are self-evidently good things , I worry simply whether such songs have any positive effect — and they start bandying the word ‘ cynic ’ . |
| 15 | When I obtained the death certificate of Thomas Batty ( 1882 ) , I read that he had lived at Mastington ; I eventually discovered that this was a copyist 's error for Markington . |
| 16 | I eventually assumed that , by now , someone else must have written the animal version of Manwatching and recently I went to look for it . |
| 17 | When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train . |
| 18 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 19 | I humbly suggest that the two counties should get together . |
| 20 | That feeling lasted a while but after we 'd had the children something changed and I slowly realized that I did n't love her anymore . |
| 21 | Although I never pointed it out to Ira Dilworth , I rather felt that certain Ogden Nash lines entitled ‘ The Purist ’ might also apply , on occasion , to him . |
| 22 | ‘ Look , I 'm not a feminist as such but I have to admit I rather resent that remark ! |
| 23 | ‘ I rather thought that was it . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I rather thought that was pretty sensational . |
| 25 | ‘ I rather thought that was the object of the exercise . ’ |
| 26 | Yet it was hard to imagine a burglar visiting the rue de Sèvres : I rather imagined that this would be where he lived . |
| 27 | ‘ I rather enjoyed that in a funny way , ’ said Helen . |
| 28 | He recorded the seven pieces out of order , however , and I rather wish that the transfer engineers had re-grouped the numbers according to the order of the score . |
| 29 | No , no I 'd I rather suspect that the erm , the cancelled the contract . |
| 30 | Whether that would have been , at that time , for the benefit of the mass of the Chinese people we 're talking about erm I do n't think I , I rather think that the er turn that Mao took probably in the long run , in the long term , was to the benefit of the mass of people erm the peasantry , the workers in China because I think the alternative would have been erm international exploitation . |