Example sentences of "[pron] that [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had two , and then Gabriel was an accident , and somehow the thought that he was an accident was so insulting to me that I had to have some more , to prove that he was n't . |
| 2 | He reminded me that I 'd predicted many , many things over the years and that so far nothing had come to anything apart from purely coincidental moves . |
| 3 | I then was sent a letter telling me that I 'd passed this exam , I then had what 's known as a medical to check that I was okay , there was no , I had no faults or injuries or health problems . |
| 4 | Maxine told me that she had known all the time that she was her twentieth-century self and that she was sitting in a comfortable chair in my consulting room . |
| 5 | Look , you said to me that you wanted to buy some yoghurt in that fancy pot , German yoghurt and they 've got that advert where they go with it . |
| 6 | You were a great friend of Rock Hudson and Montgomery Clift before that , was it because of them that you wanted to fight this bigotry ? |
| 7 | There was another reason , of course , but he was not prepared to admit even to himself that it had played any part in his decision . |
| 8 | ‘ It was for you that I had to leave that hotel suite and not return until daylight . ’ |
| 9 | Something of the casual innocence of the picture may be lost when I tell you that I had to hunt this particular combination of light for two days before obtaining the shot I wanted ! |
| 10 | I mean I remembered some of it , I , I remember hearing something that she 'd given some bits downstairs |
| 11 | ‘ It was something that I had to experience all by myself . ’ |
| 12 | I was er er there was something that I got told many years ago that I |
| 13 | and that , that would be because your , your twenty million pounds in it has really got no erm , had got no independent justification on arbitrary limiting a number of people able to compete , but what , what if you 're able to satisfy everybody that you had to have some pay out capital , twenty million is ridiculous |
| 14 | He followed them home with something of the elation of a successful spy , and when he eagerly observed Clare 's final self-abandonment in the porch it seemed to him that he had obtained some immensely pleasurable secret . |
| 15 | Afterwards Chudnovsky went to Semenov and , apparently , in the course of their conversation he notified him that he had received some money from Costakis . |
| 16 | Certainly the picture of him during this period is of a man haunted by guilt and remorse ; it seems that he felt he had no right to happiness , and the death of his wife had only served to convince him that he had done some irreparable harm to another human being , for which he must undergo a period of punishment . |
| 17 | The results were favourable and there began a series of trials which ‘ convinced him that he had made some valuable discoveries ’ . |
| 18 | It seemed to him that he had intercepted some secret communication between them . |
| 19 | Abruptly , it dawned on her that what had hurt most that fateful night of the storm was Guy 's detached dismissal of any real rapport between them . |
| 20 | Lifting up her pink nightdress her mother had then smacked her behind as hard as she could , afterwards putting her face next to Carla 's and telling her that she had had enough . |
| 21 | Only when he told her that he intended leaving that evening did he feel her hand tighten in his . |
| 22 | It angered her that he appeared to think this amounted to a great concession . |
| 23 | She told us that she had made several visits to the London Zoo and so was familiar with the appearance of modern apes . |
| 24 | ‘ Christ was a Pisces , ’ she said , assuring us that she had read several books on the subject explaining the importance of the fish in Christian religion . |
| 25 | They told us that he had insulted most of their friends , and that he dearly loved a political argument . |
| 26 | John told us that he had devoted many hours the previous year in observation of the golden eagles of Arran , recording their every move . |