Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had , he would have heard me say that it was for the Attorney-General to enforce the law , not the Government . |
| 2 | ‘ If you intend me to infer that she was pregnant , then for the life of me I can see no reason why you do n't actually say so . |
| 3 | Vuk , however , was less enthusiastic , and wrote of his own people , ‘ It is hard to induce them to acknowledge that they are Serbs , and we would be crazy if we agreed to abandon our famous name and to adopt another one [ Illyrian ] , which is dead and today has no meaning in itself . ‘ |
| 4 | ‘ It — it disgusts me to think that I 'd let you kiss me that way . ’ |
| 5 | Do you want me to say that it 's a fair cop or something ? |
| 6 | The objectives give us a way of er measuring at the end of the course whether the course has achieved for you what you wanted from we 'll come back as I said to those this afternoon and and just review them to see that you got out of the course what you . |
| 7 | For example , ‘ I forgive you for being so patronising towards me ’ would make them feel that they were having their sins confessed to them . |
| 8 | This circumstance encourages me to hope that you may , if you have any opening for such a youth , be willing to take George , who is exceedingly desirous of obtaining the situation — or indeed any situation which through industry and a desire of improvement may hereafter insure a creditable independence ; but , above all things he seems to wish that it may be possible for you to take him into a situation similar to that which was offered to his Brother . |
| 9 | Well we cou , we could write to both if necessary I mean they 'd want them to know that we , that our prisoner 's been released and that we can have another one . |
| 10 | The suggestion about the car had come from the rifleman — he 'd asked if I had a car , and I 'd said yes , because I did n't want them to know that I 'd come by boat . |
| 11 | He also became disenchanted with the amount of the correspondence ; his replies become shorter and shorter until , in September 1937 , his secretary wrote , " Mr Eliot also asked me to say that he is intending to write to you as soon as he has several consecutive free hours " . |
| 12 | The fact that Lili seemed to take an interest in me led me to think that she had never been very close to my mother . |
| 13 | Turning to the volume 's introductory pages , I read some encouraging words that at once led me to hope that I might yet track down a few potential search areas that had not already received too much attention . |
| 14 | Mr. T. has also said in an affidavit that ‘ there has never been anything whatsoever in [ Miss T. 's ] actions which led me to believe that she wished to become a Jehovah 's Witness . ’ |
| 15 | It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best . |
| 16 | She interwove the Emmaus story into her talk , mentioning words such as ‘ companioning ’ , ‘ accompanying ’ — which made me realise that we are all here to help see one another to the heavenly Jerusalem : — the word meaning a place of peace — ‘ Jerushalom ’ . |
| 17 | It also made me realise that it was stupid to waste any part of what little time we all have left in silly sulks . |
| 18 | The survey also made me realise that it was not enough to have read about the early beginnings of any religion ; one needed to study it as a living faith and see the development of thought and interpretation . |
| 19 | ‘ My conversation with him this evening made me realise that he can be quite devious , and also that he has a rather cruel sense of humour . |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe it was seeing the Dawsons that made me realise that you ca n't lose something you never had . ’ |
| 21 | As a final thought , my enjoyment of the longer essays made me regret that we still do not have an Oxford Companion to the Earth Sciences . |
| 22 | The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship . |
| 23 | In fact the aftermath of that fire , when so many people expressed resentment about the funding of the repairs , made me feel that they were . |
| 24 | ‘ They were really kind to me and they made me feel that they genuinely cared . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Keith felt very , very sorry for David and he always made me feel that I was a real bastard . |
| 26 | The study of the Buddha made me feel that I was in the presence of a very great religious teacher , a man of great compassion , who diagnosed man 's original trouble as greed , desire , attachment , the escape from which was the treading of the Noble Eightfold Path . |
| 27 | The dryness in his voice made me feel that I was being very naive . |
| 28 | This kind of timidity always made me feel that he was incapable of any violence . |
| 29 | Dana did not ask to see my own poems , which at once made me suspect that he had some knowledge of them already . |
| 30 | He made me know that I was growing old , and that everything he was was slipping out of my hands . |