Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] that [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It did not take me long to wish that we Christians might have a similar preparation for confirmation and acceptance as a full worshipping and working member of the Church .
2 Lee lead Meryl towards them only to find that she resisted furiously .
3 Immigrant rooms should be well ventilated and the interior of them so designed that they may be easily cleaned .
4 ‘ I shall not , ’ said Sally-Anne grandly , ‘ reproach you , Dr Neil , for rescuing me merely to ensure that I shall carry on skivvying for you .
5 I naïvely thought that we had something special going for us .
6 When I light-heartedly suggest that he should use Klan members who still harass him for target practice , Cash is genuinely shocked .
7 When I eventually realized that he was trying to chat me up , I decided to end the conversation and get off the train .
8 That feeling lasted a while but after we 'd had the children something changed and I slowly realized that I did n't love her anymore .
9 Yes , they were appointed by the County Council so I sup and er I , I rather think that they , we never got paid but I rather think th they 'd have to pay the Council something for the midwife 's services .
10 I rather think that they are concentrating on the main task which is to see that the children are properly provided for .
11 I rather think that he still lives in and as Marg said coyly to me one year , he had given her a lovely little candle in a special little bowl with , with water
12 I rather suspect that it 's inherent in the very human situation that it 's impossible to give a final and satisfactory account of the relation between the individuality of the individual 's experience and the world .
13 I so wish that our love and respect for the deceased could have been expressed openly , and with joy and gratitude the way yours was .
14 It is exactly the sort of corkscrew I always use but the room was so dark and I so flurried that I drove it in sideways and broke the cork .
15 I merely ask that you keep a sceptical , but open mind and ask for nothing more than that you check the figures given to you .
16 I merely meant that I love you too much to refuse you anything — only I 'm probably an idiot to admit it ! ’
17 I merely hope that I will not be a Charles talking about the fire cover again for today and er perhaps in future times for the simple reason that it is one thing to make a budget , it is one thing to do a .
18 At this point I merely suggest that there should be an amendment to the Treaty of Rome , stripping the Commission of its powers to issue of its own initiative interpretative , law-making directives and making it , as with all democratically controlled civil services , the servant of the elected national governments .
19 ( I was not impressed by such remarks ; I merely deduced that he would feel most at his ease about me if I were absent , unfaithful or dead . )
20 I merely say that I think the question might be expected to interest your readers , but I am by no means confident that they will care much about the matter .
21 Now I personally felt that it would be quite inhumane to deal with someone who was somewhere near the magic 60 cut-off , for reasons that it would be impossible to examine with any clarity the reasons for this change of heart , and the strong will that he had shown during his previous operational record .
22 I mean I personally think that we 've , that with that third session , looking at things , certain topics have come out
23 Because A you 're not wasting the time , you 're not worrying about the post sort , you 're getting the stuff quicker , you 've got the thing logged in and logged out erm so to , to a great extent , I mean er we should be ab I personally think that we should actually s be trying s we should be expecting to see an advantage but let's just take that as as , as , as neutral so that you have n't got a er a worsening situation and you have n't taken adva taken advantage of any
24 I personally think that ANYTHING is game for a joke .
25 Richard continued , ‘ I personally think that there is a lot of hypocrisy surrounding this subject .
26 But I personally feel that it needs complete refurbishment and that costs money I think that the points been raised earlier about having some sort of jazz pub here or some pub here is very bad and I think we could investigate that .
27 And containing it is extremely expensive and I personally feel that it 's wrong to expect the community at large to go on paying week after week , month after month , year after year er in order to contain a problem which through no fault of its own belongs to the soccer .
28 We Christians have already lost that battle , and I personally believe that we should not attempt to fight it again .
29 I only hope that you will never have to read this letter — not because my life is worth anything to me but because it breaks my heart to think of you alone in a world which I have found to be so harsh and unforgiving .
30 I only prayed that he was n't at some place called Ypres where , the paper warned us , casualties were heavy .
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