Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb base] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 It is only after listening again to my tape-recording of our meeting that I hear him eventually say in his educated , upper-class Dublin accent : ‘ Well , over 90 per cent of people who get raped are not injured in that rape . ’
2 The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink .
3 Charles , her husband , jokes all the time about what I 'm wearing , insists that I join them for formal dinners late at night , and then teases me throughout them because I 've never eaten squid before , and I do n't know what haggis is made of .
4 If I needed any proof that I bore you , that you do n't care about me — ’
5 I recall vividly one member of the aristocracy who was in such a state about being interviewed on TV that he insisted that I help him go through a half bottle of whisky first .
6 One officer suggested behind his hand that I visit him at his home after work , and in exchange for this little attention he would write me a six-month permis de séjour .
7 Be pleased to tell them that I remember them with great kindness and great respect .
8 But in those rare flashes when one can shed the present self and all it is in command of I realise that there were really only two occasions when I did personally feel the times on my pulse in such a way that I remember them , and not what I have since reconstructed of them .
9 It was not so much by what Basil said that I remember him but by what he did .
10 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 .
11 ‘ Trying to ensure that I remember you 're now my husband ? ’ she enquired sweetly .
12 The point of this is not the trivial name involved , but the fact that I remember it so clearly .
13 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 .
14 I think it 's the nearest we 'll get to it , and it 's in the White Paper and it can be used in exactly the sense that I gather you would like it to be used , in the discussions we have on the results of the scrutiny , and that would be the starting point there .
15 But he said er , and I said that I gather you 're seeing Lynda the weekend if you do find anything perhaps you could pass it on to her .
16 And the truth that I insist I have discovered about the animal world is that it is never , ever boring .
17 I thought to myself when it was erm , advertised on television , I thought I 'll tape that I bet I know well you 'll be interested in that .
18 And therefore it is only because I believe this particular phrase is quite literally to do with the very crux , the very cross , of our Christian understanding that I bring it before the general assembly .
19 ‘ It is unusual ’ , he wrote , ‘ for a bishop to confirm his own father — but it is as a great Nonconformist that I revere him . ’
20 ‘ I said I was subject to them , not that I let them rule me ! ’
21 Sometimes I feel so lonely , so sick of my own thoughts , that I let him .
22 ‘ If you had n't known before , it must surely have occurred to you then , that it was a measure of my besottedness that I let you get away with it . ’
23 You were standing by the boat , demanding that I let you on board , and I felt such a raw , aching need lance through me that it shocked me .
24 May I remind you that I let you go ?
25 ‘ Meaning that I let you kiss me once I realised that was your intention , because I too thought that it would serve a purpose and stop Terry Lewis making any more waves .
26 ‘ But if I 'm honest , I must admit that I regret it now . ’
27 One of the main purposes of o of a consortium is actually looking at the health needs erm it 's impressions that I 've I actually got o on a number of occasions that I 've er I think involvement in assessing health needs but I 've actually answered anywhere er , and I 'd very interested as to how or what kind of input erm we will be looking to on that ?
28 I 've got another I 've got someone I 'm supposed to ring up and somebody else that I 've I 've got a lesson starting soon .
29 But erm er on on on the figures that I 've I 've submitted , erm we 've already got three of those five districts have got s fairly high affordable housing percentage requirements .
30 It 's just that I 've I mean I want a curtain there as well because otherwise it all looks a bit heavy but I do n't think I could put a blind down there because of the way
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