Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to agree with my good-sister that it was exceptional . ’ |
| 2 | Although the neighbours made me feel like an evil , uncaring daughter , I knew in my heart that you 'd understand because you always did — I loved you and that was all you needed to know . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've won , Leo , ’ she managed quietly , ‘ and I hope with all my heart that you find it a pyrrhic victory . ’ |
| 4 | I sat in many a night myself when you were all younger , waiting for that piss artist of a father of yours to come home , knowing in my heart that he was down the Bayswater Road , spending desperately needed money on old brasses . |
| 5 | I wish with all my heart that I could go back and change that time , but I ca n't , I just ca n't . ’ |
| 6 | I never really appreciated the full meaning of the word ‘ vision ’ , until the day that I had felt so powerless to change the cruel reality facing my children and people in my community in Glasgow , that I started to wish with all my heart that I could go to sleep and never wake up again . |
| 7 | ‘ But I knew in my heart that I would have no chance against them and that they would be merciless . |
| 8 | It was a long and painful labour , and it broke my heart that I could do little to help her . |
| 9 | ‘ I could not accept in my heart that I had a problem , ’ she explains . |
| 10 | Now this was not a phrase I had ever used , but I hoped with all my heart that it was true . |
| 11 | I told my GP that I intended going to Bristol as soon as I was well enough . |
| 12 | ‘ There has never been jealousy on my part that she has taken my mother 's place . ’ |
| 13 | We never came to any agreement , but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matter during the course of such discussions , and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today . |
| 14 | It proves my case that he has n't been in touch again . |
| 15 | It was my experience that they took an extremely passive line , waiting to see if the situation would change and the spouse return . |
| 16 | You have absolutely nothing at all to do with it , and I resent sometimes the implications that there is this kind of artificial competitiveness amongst actors , because it 's been my experience that it does n't exist . |
| 17 | I 'll put my money that you will get fined at least once this year . |
| 18 | He made such a great hole in my gum that he had to stitch me up afterwards . " |
| 19 | But the scorecards overwhelmingly supported my assessment that it was one-sided tedium . |
| 20 | I wonder if we could get away with telling my mum that we 'll go away for Christmas and New Year . |
| 21 | I think it 's only due to the way I was brought up by my mum that I did n't grow up with this real block , thinking it 's great to be white . |
| 22 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 23 | The sea-mail letter arrived this afternoon , and my hands shook so much when I retired to my tent that I could hardly open it … |
| 24 | Mr Pumblechook seemed to agree with my sister that I should be punished as much as possible , even when eating , and so for breakfast next morning he gave me a large piece of bread with very little butter , and a cup of warm water with very little milk , and insisted on checking my learning . |
| 25 | My dear Paul , in ten minutes I am going to tell my board that I have become a convert to Catastrophe Theory . |
| 26 | I found to my horror that it was " Engaged " ; I had taken off with " George " in control . |
| 27 | And whilst I have gone to Middleton 's grave in the village of Mildenhall , I have found that I could in no way criticise his rejection of my plea that he stayed with the Pathfinders . |
| 28 | I replied rather coldly that I had not drunk alcohol since 1939 , and that it had been my hope that we should stop somewhere where I could wash up generally , relieve myself and have a little rest . |
| 29 | A few of our members have prepared very good speeches which they present locally and it would be my hope that we may be in a position in the not too distant future to have a professionally prepared audio/visual promotional aide . |
| 30 | I beamed up at my future Uncle Richard , asked him to give my love to Margaret and Dickie , my regards to the General and Co. , and added my hope that he would have a good holiday . |