Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't like Mike , ’ she says , ‘ I strolled in and he did n't like me , he was at that age when he did n't like people if they did n't look cool so I hated him because he used to be really sarcastic and I did n't know him well enough to realise that he was only messing . |
| 2 | ‘ Brian said he felt Jason could do us a job , and I know him well enough to realise that his judgement is worth following . |
| 3 | But when her hubby heard of her endeavours he hotfooted it upstairs only to discover that the sock where he had hidden £500 was gone . |
| 4 | She interpreted them quite accurately to mean that her children were under-achieving and the message she took from them was almost always a negative one . |
| 5 | But his enthusiasm for system led him too easily to assume that a native administration duly gazetted was a native administration actually functioning as a responsible organ of local government , and this set a limit to his achievements in reform . |
| 6 | My predecessor took me carefully aside to explain that this device was part of a plot by the Director of Education either to drive him from his place or to impose comprehensives on the whole campus . |
| 7 | He knew her too well to think that she would allow affection to outweigh her sense of right and wrong . |
| 8 | Florian broke off , looking astonished , and Maria knew him well enough to realise that his attention had made a rare leap outward . |
| 9 | But Amanda knew him well enough to suspect that he might be bluffing . |
| 10 | It is not putting it too strongly to say that marriage is in crisis not only in the UK , but throughout the Western world . |
| 11 | He did n't actually talk about it to me — I suppose he knows me well enough to guess that I 'd have dug in my heels . |