Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 2 | Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings . |
| 3 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |
| 4 | Edward knew he was being pampered and , in his letters to Helen about his friendship with Gwili 's sister , he confessed that ‘ in fact it was partly you that I saw when I held her : I hope I shall never forget her ; then I shall feel that it is possible to love another even though I am all and ever yours , little one . |
| 5 | Yeah over that I mean sometimes you want to sit quiet and you can not can you ? |
| 6 | The first thing that I noticed when I arrived in the dusty Managua airport , besides the tanks parked in the landing field , was an enormous poster of an unmistakable Daniel Ortega , clad in blue jeans and a cowboy shirt , holding an infant with an earring . |
| 7 | think I mind says that I ask where you going now , going now or , well he 's not been here . |
| 8 | ‘ No , ’ said Aline , suddenly serious , ‘ it is only that the step from perfectly ordinary things into the miraculous seems to me so small , almost accidental , that I wonder why it astonishes you at all , or why you trouble to reason about it . |
| 9 | In fact , I 'd become so accustomed to relying on her that I wondered how I would . |
| 10 | Can I just say then that I think either it 's got to be blocked completely so they ca n't jump over the bridge , or it 's got to be unblocked . |
| 11 | Erm I mean if you 're if you feel that I do n't I do n't think you 'd have any problem doing this it 's your it 's your it 's the |
| 12 | No oh more sadness there 's one thing that I do n't I searched the whole world for someone like you . |
| 13 | that I did n't I brought the rest for Laddy . |
| 14 | It was n't until I was much older still that I found out she 'd committed suicide . ’ |
| 15 | That I believe now it 's run by the ladies that took over some while ago . |
| 16 | Ridging and patching were the first jobs that I tackled once it became apparent that I was neither going to find another job nor be content to remain a labourer . |
| 17 | I realise that I have little I need to hide . |
| 18 | I tell yer , Joe , I ai n't too partial to that cove , and nor ai n't I 'appy that 'e knows where I live . |
| 19 | Already known to have a weakness for a pretty face , it was understandable that she worried now he chose to teach attractive young girls . |
| 20 | It was n't that she cared how she looked , she told herself . |
| 21 | She ran up the path and knocked at the door , her whole body seized by such a trembling excitement that she thought perhaps she was going to faint . |
| 22 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 23 | So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her . |
| 24 | She replied that she knew where he was but she did n't want to discuss it . |
| 25 | She began to feel that she knew where she was , a little : and after a while she too began to talk . |
| 26 | He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends . |
| 27 | She is looking for a dress for me and she is waiting to comb my hair , and she has the look on her face that she has when she guts the chickens . |
| 28 | She is far more likely to obey the rules if you discuss them with her , so that she knows why you make them . |
| 29 | It seemed so quick and easy when the time came that she wondered why she had waited so long . |
| 30 | After all , ’ said the kind-looking gentleman in his pleasant voice , ‘ they were aware by then that you knew where they lived , and that there was a chance you 'd have them arrested . ’ |