Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tallis was prompted by this insult into an action that she knew she would regret . |
| 2 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 3 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 4 | I did n't want John thinking that I said he would get her one . |
| 5 | This is because this was the dead stock that we sent him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | An Amex gold card that I suspect he ca n't use . |
| 8 | He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him . |
| 9 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 10 | ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 11 | After James II 's death , and during the reign of Anne , Jacobites usually claimed that James Francis Stuart was the rightful heir to the throne , who should succeed his sister : it was not until after the Hanoverian succession that we find him being hailed as James III . |
| 12 | His reply was so matter-of-fact , so lacking in emotion that she found it hard to believe . |
| 13 | It was a bitter irony that he condemned her for loving a man who was out of reach . |
| 14 | Er racking damage , Carrie 's who in bay one and two , came to me this morning and said the the racking that he checks it every morning when he comes at six or wh Six seven , whenever he starts . |
| 15 | The staff talked only banalities at her , until she could have screamed with irritation , and try as she might to ignore it , there was no doubt in her mind that they disliked her , these crisp women in their crisp uniforms . |
| 16 | ‘ It boggles my mind that everyone thinks they can pull the wool over the eyes of a company that 's had 30 years experience in dicking rock bands . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't you see — ca n't you remember how it was ? ’ he asked , when everything was so indelibly imprinted on her mind that she knew she would never forget a moment of it . |
| 18 | ‘ I wanted him to chase me , not literally , though I would have been madly impressed if he 'd charged up Piccadilly on a white stallion , but I just wanted some firmer confirmation that he loved me . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Isabel lay very still , her muscles so rigid with tension that she doubted she could have moved anyway . |
| 21 | I shot a scene on the top of the Old Bailey that everybody thought I could never do . |
| 22 | The swimsuit that you bought me . |
| 23 | One thing said in support of the idea that we take effects to be probable events , and , more particularly , said against the analysis expounded in this chapter that we take them to be necessitated events , is relevant enough , although likely to be disdained by the high-minded . |
| 24 | In order to fill this in , this little er section you have to look at the er the chapter that they recommend you , er Saint Matthew 's Gospel chapter twenty eight . |
| 25 | " Perhaps it is our fault that we keep them so much in idleness ? |
| 26 | What can I do though , Karen , it 's not my fault that I love it , surely ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There is every indication that he believed it to be true , whether it was or not . |
| 29 | When he did n't move or give any indication that he knew she was there at all — although he must have heard the car draw up and , unless he was deaf , the car door slam — she marched across to him . |
| 30 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |