Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 I would say to other pregnant teenagers that I think it 's great if they are happy about it .
4 ‘ 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 .
5 ‘ 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 .
6 The working party on Equal Opportunities that I said I would convene ?
7 One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something .
8 He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange .
9 ‘ In those Go-away times that I knew you had I should have guessed you needed help . ’
10 I started off the way I write every album — wrote a couple of songs , got a feel for the music and called up the musicians that I thought I could do the songs with .
11 A storm arrives from the west , the snow falling so thickly in a few minutes that I fear I will lose my way .
12 She looked so pornographic in her gimmicks that I wanted her to take them off again , or better , much better , push bits of them aside .
13 However , during our visit to India he had been constantly with us , and in Jaipur I had experienced a gratifying sense of shared adventure ; but it was perhaps in the camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly .
14 He feasted for months , for years , on a small pair of my slippers that I gave him ; I expect he has burnt them by now .
15 I liked York very much , because it was set round a lake and it was the first one I went to , but I must say of the other modern universities that I know I would say that Sussex was erm was the other best one that I 've been to and the one that I felt most comfortable and happy .
16 I liked York very much , because it was set round a lake and erm it was the first one I went to , but I must say that of the other modern universities that I know I would say that Sussex was erm was the other best one that I 've been to and the one that I 've felt most erm comfortable and happy in .
17 ‘ He never once put his hand into his box all the years that I served him , ’ meaning he never gave me a gift of money , a bonus for service above and beyond the call of time .
18 No I , well the , the colours that I like you know the cerise and the
19 Because any one of these two or three things that I show you is enough if it 's a surprise to them they will blow you out .
20 I 'm going to have some headed notepaper as soon as I can get the laser printer printing out things that I tell it to rather than printing out Courier Ten .
21 Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ .
22 It has made me question every aspect of my teaching , including things that I thought I was doing well !
23 I wonder if it 's one of those things that I mean she 's reading the story aloud , I wonder if you were reading that story as as well
24 It it 's one of those unfortunate things that I mean I think we 've we 've got to look around and see what we can do about .
25 And do lots of things that I knew he was capable of doing .
26 A week ago I did n't know what to learn and now there 's so many things that I know I want to learn .
27 right , well that 's the sort of things that I think we want to find out and in slower time I was actually going to ring the yeah at Telford and say speak to me about this and maybe pop in one morning on my way into town and just say this is the idea how does it grab you and if they say you 're not on fine , but it 's things like that that I think we want to explore .
28 Union by moving twenty or thirty miles outside , at once they set up conditions that I know they would set up in London if they could do so unchecked ( The Women 's Printing Society continued to operate , as an exceptional case , with women being paid male rates . )
29 Let me tell you of some of the important stories that I believe we have covered inadequately — and in some cases not at all .
30 But they have to call in a vet from time to time , and it 's with those farmers that I think you 'll have most success , just so long as you keep your charges low . ’
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