Example sentences of "that [pron] [noun sg] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he , he goes , he reckoned that , he reckoned that , that my blanket made him feel worse . |
| 2 | I felt that my life fitted me as ill as a garment designed for somebody else . |
| 3 | ‘ The album is just like one leaf on the tree , and that 's why I waited two years to do the next one , because I wanted to be sure that my playing had something new to offer . |
| 4 | I knew I was being unreasonable , but I began to feel that my marriage lacked something , a fundamental excitement . |
| 5 | I knew that my presence annoyed him , and if I 'd stop to nurse hurt feelings , I 'd travel home each night on the el , lonely and defeated , in the way one can be on a train . |
| 6 | I think just the fact that my wife knew what was going on , and knew the problems exactly you know , they had their own meetings and the food parcels that they could organize , you know I would n't have a clue how to go about it , the fact that various shops refused to have collection points inside , and they wrote off to the management of these shops and got that changed . |
| 7 | Yeah I did that at school we had to stay in most break times as a child cos I could n't remember , and I , I know that my mum bought me a books so I used to sit for days and days , then my mum going over and then my nan going over and I could n't remember if I wanted |
| 8 | and I 'd always been sorry that my dad told us , you know . |
| 9 | It was n't until lunchtime that my boss drew my attention to the strange ‘ hairband ’ I was wearing . |
| 10 | ‘ You said that my father knew there was somebody else in my mother 's life . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't say that ! ’ and I hinted that my father wanted me to go into the pulpit , and there was a little clash between us . |
| 12 | And it was there that my father started his er lace factory . |
| 13 | It was after we left them that my father opened his own bank account . |
| 14 | It was because the Communist Party fed me , that my learning stood me in good stead and I know at least this much and I live like this . |
| 15 | Sometimes I would catch her looking at me with such intensity of feeling that my breath left me for a moment . |
| 16 | Morse subjected him to a long unblinking stare before saying : ‘ There was no will in the safe and , according to the lawyer , it is unlikely that my father-in-law made one . ’ |
| 17 | I had and have the distinct impression that my mother found me a nuisance . |
| 18 | I believe that my suggestion caused something of a stir . |
| 19 | One formed the impression that its editor gave his readers what he thought they ought to read rather than what they might want or enjoy . |
| 20 | Even though its population was overwhelmingly German , the politicians rightly considered that its position made it vital to the Polish economy . |
| 21 | It was only when I dissected the heart , this afternoon , that its significance struck me . |
| 22 | Soeur Dosithée , perhaps breaking her vow of poverty , kept all the letters that her sister sent her charting the progress of her little niece . |
| 23 | She felt somehow that her sister needed it , for it seemed only too probable that if Rupert was interested in any woman it was in Ianthe . |
| 24 | The next problem was how to deliver it , since I sat at the back in English ( our next lesson ) and Belinda sat at the front — which was how I knew that her hair touched her chair ! |
| 25 | She says the trip was badly organised , and that her companion wanted their friendship to be more than platonic . |
| 26 | At the same time she knew that her gender isolated her from the ritualised socialising of other senior officers . |
| 27 | If he had had any doubts about that her expression dispelled them . |
| 28 | He was sure that her withdrawal meant nothing except that she was happy and occupied but he felt oddly lonely , as if she had deliberately left him by himself in an empty room . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , he would do what he could to help her , and would frankly face the fact that her presence gave him enormous pleasure . |
| 30 | Did you ever meet a mother who 's complained that her child phoned her too often ? |