Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a mental shrug she tried to ensure she kept up , knowing that nothing irritated him more than to be kept waiting even a second when he was in this mood . |
| 2 | When they say that nothing happens I wonder what they want to happen . |
| 3 | If it is so for choices of means it is so for choices of ends ; and it is one of the greatest temptations to irrationality that nothing compels us to acknowledge in the realm of ends what we can not afford to deny in the realm of means . |
| 4 | He thought back over the last few hours , the acknowledged relief of talking to Alice , the knowledge that nothing shocked her , nothing surprised her , that everything he did , if not right in her eyes , was judged by a different standard from the one she rigorously applied to the rest of her life . |
| 5 | He had no really bad faults but you had to be careful that nothing startled him , such as a bird suddenly rising , and on one occasion he did bolt . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's so strong that nothing stops him , ’ commented his trainer , Lucy Wadham . |
| 7 | Just to make sure that nothing stops you from having the best , we 've arranged some excellent flexible finance schemes . |
| 8 | Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head . |
| 9 | She felt as though all her bones had melted and that everyone knew it . |
| 10 | ‘ Instructor/supervisors are being trained to ensure that everyone using it is properly advised on how to gain the best from it without running the risk of strain or injury . |
| 11 | ‘ It boggles my mind that everyone thinks they can pull the wool over the eyes of a company that 's had 30 years experience in dicking rock bands . |
| 12 | ‘ It seems to me that everyone thinks he 's ill merely because he is less rude and rather more bearable than he has been in the past , ’ the head said irritably . |
| 13 | It 's important to him that everyone knows he is the champion , that he is better than anyone else and not necessarily looking for easy pay days . |
| 14 | He confessed that everyone trusted him now , as they had done in the old days . |
| 15 | I 'll explain the circumstances exactly , and I 'll make very sure that everyone believes me . |
| 16 | Accept that no-one forced you to believe it . |
| 17 | An absolute certainty that no-one wishes you harm . |
| 18 | That 's how I felt all the time ; this constant feeling that no-one wanted me to be there , no-one gave a f— about me . |
| 19 | While farmers themselves recognise that no-one owes them a living , there 's still an inherent desire to be on the receiving end of some support . |
| 20 | While farmers themselves recognise that no-one owes them a living , there 's still an inherent desire to be on the receiving end of some support . |
| 21 | The experience was painful enough to ensure that no-one did it again ; it simply was n't worth the risk . |
| 22 | It is only after listening again to my tape-recording of our meeting that I hear him eventually say in his educated , upper-class Dublin accent : ‘ Well , over 90 per cent of people who get raped are not injured in that rape . ’ |
| 23 | You see — ’ she looked up once more and met his direct blue gaze ‘ — you think I wanted to marry you , that I planned it all , but you were wrong , I did n't . ’ |
| 24 | It was n't till years later that I realised they had n't even remembered to ask if f was a lesbian . |
| 25 | ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’ |
| 26 | It was n't until he asked if he could take some off that I realised he had got himself well wrapped up — with 24 articles of clothing , ’ said Taylor . |
| 27 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 28 | It was years later that I realised I really would have to tackle it , but I found it was much easier than I had expected . |
| 29 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 30 | It was n't until I underwent hypnosis that I realised I was still a Catholic . |