Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You made it plain from the moment you met me that you were available , but you miscalculated if you imagined I 'd fallen for your little scheme . ’ |
| 2 | He may well have imagined when he met me that he was acquiring the means of escape from the kingdom of the past . |
| 3 | All of that I could understand , but it concerned me that she was so nervous and desperately unhappy . |
| 4 | Semenov promised me that he would have a word at the highest level , with Yury Vladimirovich Andropov . |
| 5 | Monty promised me that I had nothing to worry about . |
| 6 | Violet Sangston promised me that I knew most of the other guests . |
| 7 | ‘ She promised me that she would come . ’ |
| 8 | I stood there and promised them that I would stay alive until I had killed the monster . |
| 9 | Yet it scorched him that he had been unable to give her that chance himself . |
| 10 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 11 | Belov warned her that she 'd have to go in , but he promised her that she 'd be going no further than the administration block on the street . |
| 12 | The Office continues with a description of a relapse of Margaret 's illness from which she was cured when Rolle promised her that she should never again suffer from it as long as he was alive . |
| 13 | ‘ I know you did n't want me to come here tonight , but there is an enchanted magician in that box and I promised him that I would get him to you so that you could change him back . |
| 14 | At Bethel , the place of the vision of the stairway to heaven , God promised him that he would be with him , that he would keep him wherever he went , that he would bring him back to the Land , and would not leave him . |
| 15 | Duncan had taken Leeming 's hand , promised him that he would do his utmost to find the family and deliver them safe from harm . |
| 16 | Did you not think when you saw the girl in the way you found her that I had actually ruined her , as she calls it ? |
| 17 | It disturbed him that she had n't broken the news by saying she was pregnant . |
| 18 | The 7th Earl decided in the early part of the twentieth century to install in the two rooms the panelling and so designed it that there were recesses for pictures . |
| 19 | I said , " Yes " , and I plugged it that I 'd done it while I 'd had Louisa and that 's what I think went in my favour in a way . |
| 20 | All I know is that there are better people in , that , are more intelligent people that are better informed about than me or you and they deemed it that we 've got something to fear against and I 'm willing to take that . |
| 21 | It was n't until I 'd bought one and used it that I realised how much it speeded up knitting . |
| 22 | erm I I found it that it was a very pleasant layout . |
| 23 | ‘ Mrs Blackler of the agency advised me that you would be in touch . ’ |
| 24 | Yes , I 've got my cat , it 's just gone out , yeah I 've got a cat , yes he 's a lovely little cat I 've got and he 's just gone out a little ginger and but I did have a dog but I , cos he , I had him several years here a beautiful little corgi he was and then I had to have him put to sleep because he had er water trouble , but then my doctor advised me that I , he said do n't have another dog have a cat , so I had a cat , I 've always had a cat though |
| 25 | Her credibility increased when she advised me that it did not really matter whether I believed in homeopathy or not . |
| 26 | I work in Chipping Norton at the Presbytery and erm it just amazed me that she could tell someone not to smoke . |
| 27 | And she believed me that it did n't match three piece suite or carpet and it was stupid , and that sh and she says what shall I do about them ? |
| 28 | He pointed out that although my title was an attractive one — since there was such a thing as a ‘ servile ’ society , namely a totalitarian one — the reader would assume that I was using the word liberal in the modern sense , which was certainly not my intention , He then went meticulously through my argument , and it almost pained me that he should take so much trouble over a work which I can not think it deserved . |
| 29 | Haines assured me that everything at his end would remain secret , but a few years later I was both surprised and vexed to find that he had retailed the story in his memoirs without any indication of his pledge of confidentiality . |
| 30 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |