Example sentences of "[pron] [that] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I saw you , it means nothing that I saw you … |
| 2 | The mother who swore to everyone that she loved her children ! |
| 3 | ‘ Was she lying , then , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ when she told me that nobody taught her to multiply or to read ? |
| 4 | And it surprises me that they took him into the Force , 'cos he 's made no secret of it an' you know yourself how they 're thought about . ’ |
| 5 | Although the ministers were too polite to commit themselves , even when I pressed them on this point , it was clear to me that they felt they , and their church , had been used . |
| 6 | It does n't surprise me that they did it . |
| 7 | The extreme condition of this is for someone to tell me that they loved me — few ever did — or to thank me . |
| 8 | THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while . |
| 9 | You were standing by the boat , demanding that I let you on board , and I felt such a raw , aching need lance through me that it shocked me . |
| 10 | Whenever I have met him since , he has invariably reminded me that I taught him about the business ! |
| 11 | The therapist did n't attempt to persuade me that I had nothing to fear ; instead , every week I sat in her calm , warm room and talked about my family , my friendships , my feelings about myself , my ambitions . |
| 12 | Monty promised me that I had nothing to worry about . |
| 13 | And there it was , it struck me that I had nothing to lose , I was damned either way . |
| 14 | Then Holmes checked with me that I had my gun , an army revolver . |
| 15 | The Guv'nor told me to ride Ile de Bourbon in the big race telling me that I knew what he could do and that win was the biggest of my career so far but I 'll always remember Lester who had finished nearly last padding disconsolately into the weighing room and asking me ‘ Did you know your horse had improved so much ’ . |
| 16 | He maintained his interest until the end , bequeathing to Christ 's Hospital £20 ‘ which they owe me that I lent them ’ , with an additional £6 13s. 4d. , besides £20 each to St Bartholomew 's and St Thomas 's . |
| 17 | I 'll get you so you wo n't even recognise your own body but after we 've done it you 'll be grateful to me that I made you do it and you 'll enjoy it and you 'll get better at it and one day you 'll thank me for doing this to you . |
| 18 | That poem reminds me that I did my best , did my duty if you like . ’ |
| 19 | Deborah is confident and outspoken and had mentioned to me that she felt her sense of herself as ‘ not bad-looking ’ , and her lack of any real anxieties about her weight or body was largely due to her mother . |
| 20 | She told me that she felt she could do this , and proceeded to do so . |
| 21 | When I probed a bit , rather reluctantly she told me that she understood he 'd had an ‘ illness ’ , and was a regular out-patient at a local hospital . ’ |
| 22 | When Liz told me that she thought your boss wanted to marry you I knew I had to step in and stop that nonsense once and for all , ’ he grated , his strong arms tightening possessively about her . |
| 23 | I approached Inez , then Mrs Matthew Glynn , and she told me that she knew nothing of them . |
| 24 | It occurred to me that she knew you were a Gemini , and she was clearly thrilled about us getting together . ’ |
| 25 | I prayed that she would intercede for us , and show us her grace , and it came to me that she heard me , and that she willed to do us good . |
| 26 | And do n't forget , Joe was with me , and you know how careful he is. lee was at the party and one of the maids told me that she took him out of the party and spoke to him for a few minutes . |
| 27 | ( One of the teachers whom I interviewed , and who did not comment on this question , has since told me that she used it with a class . |
| 28 | It pleases me that she called me my darling and not my little prodigy as she once did ; this is the best sign yet that I am winning her back . |
| 29 | He told me that he meant me no harm , but was a magician , who had made the music play around me , and wished to have my hand in marriage and live in my castle , with me and my brother , in peace hereafter . |
| 30 | Nicola 's husband told me that he thought you had something to do with the murder . |