Example sentences of "[noun] that i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want John thinking that I said he would get her one . |
| 2 | So I make no apologies for beginning this book in the way that a conjurer might , by giving you an apparently free choice from the pack while in fact forcing on you the particular card that I want you to take . |
| 3 | An Amex gold card that I suspect he ca n't use . |
| 4 | He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him . |
| 5 | ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 6 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
| 7 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 8 | What can I do though , Karen , it 's not my fault that I love it , surely ? |
| 9 | I thought it was n't fair that I should begin to show when I was barely into my fourth month , and I got angry with my clothes , as if it were their fault that I pulled them out of shape . |
| 10 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
| 11 | It was precisely because the measures in the social chapter would have damaged first employment prospects and secondly our competitiveness against Japan and the United States that I found them unacceptable . |
| 12 | As I entered the committee room from the standard uncarpeted passage , I was given a friendly and businesslike handshake by the chairman , Lord Franks , who had courteously got out of his chair to greet his witness — an unfailing politeness that I gather he extended to every other witness . |
| 13 | I would say to other pregnant teenagers that I think it 's great if they are happy about it . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've got so many pictures that I thought I 'd have a clear out ’ , she explains , surrounded by the sale items which represent months of hard work . |
| 16 | I was so frightened by the blind man 's violence that I obeyed him without question , and took him into the room where the sick captain was sitting . |
| 17 | You are angry , vulnerable , gentle , fierce , with such bewildering speed that I find it fascinating . |
| 18 | The working party on Equal Opportunities that I said I would convene ? |
| 19 | ‘ Good afternoon , ladies and gentlemen , it is with great pleasure that I introduce you to the magic of television … ‘ |
| 20 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 21 | [ reading ] " I always thought my young master a fine gentleman as everybody says he is , but he gave these good things to us with such a graciousness that I thought he looked like an angel . " |
| 22 | As I was applying to art school I needed a reference so I told Vivienne that I thought I 'd ask Malcolm , since he was my employer . |
| 23 | York 's a historic city of some hundred and four thousand people , covering some two thousand nine hundred hectares , but that city itself is only part of the settlement that I think we would all regard as as York itself , that covers a larger population of some a hundred and thirty five thousand people , er contained er within the York outer ring road , and referenced to the the map submitted with my H One submission , and also the greenbelt plan which we 've we 've just put up on the board there , er will show you the the broader extent of the urban area . |
| 24 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 25 | Er , I am mindful chairman that I embarrassed you acutely at the end of education meeting on Friday , erm , and I know that I , I have a circumstance coming up in February , where I have a child who is unexpectedly on a training day , erm , on a day where I actually have two meetings of this council , now either I get substituted , or we arrange for a one off carer situation . |
| 26 | I made it clear on a number of occasions over recent years that there was , in retrospect , one change that I wish we had not made at the time , but it was one that was urged on us by right hon. Gentlemen opposite . |
| 27 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 28 | because where all the sort of a route that I reckon I know I , I am not gon na know it all . |
| 29 | I think it was Angie and Tony , going back to that incredible support that I told you about when I first met them , that they were also dreamers and had such faith and believed in David 's future and his destiny . |
| 30 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |