Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
| 2 | I mean if if I 'd done that this morning and I 'd written it all up before you came in and then said well what we 've done is this and then we did that and then we did that but as as it was generated as we discussed then then you were with me I hope at the way it went |
| 3 | Dad told him I 'd lost that labouring job and he said if that was what I wanted to do , he had a job repairing houses he owns . ’ |
| 4 | In the Merry & Co office , I 'd learned that each carriage ( built of strong unpainted corrugated aluminium with the corrugated lying horizontally ) was eighty-five feet long ; and there were fifteen carriages in all , counting the horses , the baggage and the Lorrimores . |
| 5 | From the lists I made , I came to feel that European culture in the last millennium may have had some 100 real heroes , the mastersingers of Europe , of which I have tried to identify half . |
| 6 | As I go back downstairs I begin to feel that this woman is making fools of us all — of Summerchild , Tite and Harold Wilson , of Ken Hurren and myself . |
| 7 | As the lorry braked ferociously in the lonely country road with a hiss of air brakes , and began to career backwards towards my Mini , its reversing lights two angry eyes beaming at me , I began to see that same skyline as the place I most wanted to be . |
| 8 | I try to accept that one day , somehow , I 'll understand . ’ |
| 9 | How far this was true I do not know , but I do know that any suggestion from her to Harold Wilson was likely to receive an affirmative answer . |
| 10 | But I do believe that one act of violence seeds another . ’ |
| 11 | However , I do believe that this exchange together with the evidence I heard illustrates the understandable concern of the dock company to ensure that it would have unrestricted access to the port for itself and its sublessees who would operate there . |
| 12 | ‘ This is excellent , lad , and I do believe that this exercise is having a beneficial side-effect , namely an improvement in both your grammar and the general ordering of your still-immature intellect . |
| 13 | ‘ I am familiar with the darker view which encompasses bestiality , incest , parricide , rustling , infanticide and the murderous rivalry within the Women 's Institute , but I had imagined that this view was the product of a warped approach to life and greatly exaggerated . ’ |
| 14 | But still , we did have several holidays together and I had assumed that one day we would get married . |
| 15 | I had seen that ominous trembling of the limbs before and now the filly was beginning to sway a little . |
| 16 | I had hoped that some progress would be made in the autumn and I am disappointed that that has not happened . |
| 17 | Yes I I I had noted that that discussion had gone on and assurances have been given to Humberside that North Yorkshire would no stray in the sense of putting their new settlement into Humberside . |
| 18 | I had thought that high crime was dog-earing and the highest of all writing comments in the margin . |
| 19 | But I had to accept that this examination was far more important to them . |
| 20 | Erm and er I 've felt that same sense of rightness at many times over these years , this is now our thirty seventh year ? |
| 21 | I once said to a small group of Reception children working in the play area : " I 've heard that this bracelet has some strange magic powers . |
| 22 | I 've heard that this farm was a very busy place on Tuesday nights and Wednesday mornings and the kitchen would be piled high with eggs and butter . |
| 23 | I 've found that regular spraying has little effect when the air is dry for so long . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've learned that this year , ’ continues Simmons . |
| 25 | and I need to ensure that this experience erm well I I need to make sure that I will be evaluating it in a similar way as I went along . |
| 26 | I have reached that perverse age in life ( why be coy — it 's 46 ) when contemporaries start growing younger . |
| 27 | I have to say that each morning when I walk off platform 16 , I invariably see five or six BR employees hanging around doing nothing in particular . |
| 28 | I have to say that neither piece is vintage Schumann , but when the old magic really starts to work ( as in the ‘ Gloria ’ and ‘ Agnus Dei ’ of the Requiem ) , one is left in no doubt that Schumann 's was a creative mind of the very first order . |
| 29 | He really wants the mud to show his best , but I have to say that this ground helped him get the trip . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ As an investor , I have to say that this environment does not allow me to put more money into Hong Kong . |