Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of people that I hear saying things such as I do n't remember stepping over people in the street five years ago and it 's true , in this city I do n't actually remember doing that , not with the frequency with which it happens today and your government and your party has no record to shout about , absolutely none . |
| 2 | I felt such a strong love for them that I planned to spend the rest of my life among them , and to try to become more like them . |
| 3 | I was talking to him about that and I got a totally different response from him that I expected did n't mind . |
| 4 | The young lady in question ( who I shall call Mrs X because I am afraid that I omitted to catch her name ) began by asking me what the bad points were within the embalming profession . |
| 5 | I have placed in the Library a copy of the letter that I wrote explaining the issues in great detail . |
| 6 | The majority of prison letters that I receive have the ring of truth ; the reason being that it is not in human nature ( of which the law is profoundly ignorant ) for guilty men to go on proclaiming their innocence month after month , year after year , when they do not have the evidence , the impetus , or the skills to do so , at least with any show of conviction . |
| 7 | Ever since James brought me the clothes of that unfortunate young girl , I have been beset by a conviction that I failed to notice something of importance . ’ |
| 8 | My confidence suffered so much that I failed to reach the 50-wicket mark in three successive County Championship campaigns with Middlesex . |
| 9 | The scene was so exciting that I failed to sympathise with my grey-faced guest who returned with tales of third world conditions in the gents . |
| 10 | I tried to be sick in the toilet , but even that I failed to do . |
| 11 | It is in the darkest , unprogressive times that I return to base and say ‘ baptizatus sum ’ ‘ I am a baptized person ’ — and that is sheer gift and grace . |
| 12 | In the part of the world that I help to represent — Wales — unemployment stands at more than 120,000 . |
| 13 | Er that I remember come in laughing saying that he had no kitchen for him for her . |
| 14 | The toy that I remember lasting for quite a long time was a beautifully made wooden engine with its tender and two trucks . |
| 15 | He argued that I can not know that my diary is in the ( closed ) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable ; we can suppose , perhaps , that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since , together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the experienced world . |
| 16 | She did n't go out drinking or dancing ; she did n't do as one mother she 'd known ( in a story of maternal neglect that I remember feeling was over the top at the time ) and tie a piece of string round my big toe , dangle it through the window and down the front of the house , so that the drunken mother , returning from her carousing , could tug at it , wake the child , get the front door opened and send it down the shop for a basin of pie and peas . |
| 17 | T trying to simplify multiplication because that I remember starting multiplication , |
| 18 | Beginning by a fantastic attempt to construct pedigrees where sons were their own fathers , I became gradually so involved that I remember wondering if God the Father were in truth only the child that grew up into Jesus Christ . |
| 19 | There 's the firstly that of young children , and it 's something that I remember putting a motion to in the last administration about a creche or whatever or looking into this facility , in the fact of erm , trying to encourage more people with young families to erm , actually get involved in local government and politics . |
| 20 | Those were the first guitars that I remember going : ‘ Wow , that 's a guitar ! ’ |
| 21 | An hour that I intend to use making sure that everyone , including your friend Lewis , understands what our relationship is ! |
| 22 | But now suppose that you know I am behind the tree , you are expecting me to leap out , and I know you know all that : I can still ( maybe ) frighten you by leaping out , just by getting you to realize that I intend to frighten you . |
| 23 | You seem to be under the misapprehension that I intend making love to you . ’ |
| 24 | That I intend to make love to both of you ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I just wanted to let you know that I intend to resign my post at the District . ’ |
| 26 | Due to the publication schedule of ‘ Contact ’ I am actually writing this before the AGM , so I ca n't say anything more about it except that I intend to resign at it , due to the fact that I expect to be leaving the London area , so this will be the last time you will hear about London Branch from me . |
| 27 | ‘ It means , simply , that I intend to look for another job . ’ |
| 28 | And it is some of those shared beliefs and concerns that I intend to address this evening : |
| 29 | I declare here and now that I intend to follow that same path . |
| 30 | ‘ I told Glentoran manager Rob Strain that I intend to train hard for three weeks and maybe play a couple of reserve games . |