Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , travelling back from work in the moonlight , I would allow myself to fall silent and to wonder what scenes this moon was shining on in the Western Desert , where I had learned that Leslie now was ; and whether he was in present danger . |
| 2 | Although I have said that Eliot had not greatly physically changed , he felt the deprivations of the war as acutely as anyone else . |
| 3 | ‘ Once I had realized that Tenison , the consulting engineer , was not spelt in the same way as Tennyson , our late-lamented poet Laureate , I had no difficulty . ’ |
| 4 | The whole story is not yet known , although it 's claimed that North Korea er invaded South Korea er I sh I should take that as a hypothesis and not as a fact . |
| 5 | ‘ Even if I 'd believed that story when you told it to me , I certainly would n't believe it now . |
| 6 | At first she had been surprised when a flask and a chunk of bread had been tossed down to her that first night , until she had remembered that de Raimes did not want her dead just yet . |
| 7 | Would she have collapsed into a heap if she 'd learnt that Stephen was silent because he was wondering if his father had murdered his mother ? |
| 8 | If she had discovered that Tina could have said much the same she would have been deeply upset . |
| 9 | If you had thought that Greeks never worry about animals , or rubbish , go to Aegina . |
| 10 | ‘ You might have guessed it if you 'd remembered that night we made love . |
| 11 | If you have found that Doomstones make the adventurers too powerful for comfort , this could be a good way of getting the crystals away from them . |
| 12 | It said : ‘ If it becomes known that UK companies have supplied equipment for manufacture of munitions we could truthfully say that when the licences were issued we had no reason to believe that this civilian equipment was for other than general industrial purposes . ’ |
| 13 | Keegan knows that Tommy will not settle for second best indefinitely and if he has decided that Srnecek is his favourite then £500,000 would represent good business . |
| 14 | ‘ Because I 've known that story since I was a little girl . |
| 15 | " I hope I did n't wake you up , Aunt Tossie — I brought you these , " she proffered the scone because she had decided that Aunt Tossie really merited some small recognition for her mistaken act of kindness over the spinach . |
| 16 | It silenced Maggie most of all because she had assumed that Felipe guarded this secret and she had never mentioned it to Mitch . |
| 17 | This was their new production , and an electric charge went through them , intensely fuelled amongst the younger members because they had heard that Hans Kramer , the Viennese operatic agent , was coming specially to Hochhauser to see Therese . |
| 18 | Authority figures who abuse their power are , of course , doing so because they have received that sort of abuse themselves ( and in receiving have also learned how to give abuse ) and perhaps because they perceive others as a threat : ‘ I will dominate you before you have any chance of dominating me . ’ |
| 19 | In some instances , management have done this because they have believed that de-skilling is a counter-productive strategy in that it lowers morale , commitment , motivation , and optimum use of human resources . |
| 20 | They build their nests close to an eyrie ; because they have learned that peregrines are highly efficient at driving away foxes ? |
| 21 | He had also brought a chess manual , because he had heard that children could play chess brilliantly , but after ski-ing with Sam for a few days he decided that there was no call to be beaten by a five-year-old at two things at once . |
| 22 | The trade union legislation introduced in Britain in the past decade has enabled the expression of a variety of worker attitudes to unionization , because it has ensured that workers can not be coerced into a union and it has also increased union democracy . |
| 23 | I shall be elaborating upon this point in a short while , but for the moment let us observe that fundamentalism has flowered because it has concluded that liberalism is effete , ineffectual and impoverished . |
| 24 | That implied being carefree , and she felt as though it had been decades since she had felt that way , and it had nothing whatsoever to do with Jonathan . |
| 25 | Goodness knows what we shall do if it needs any alterations , since we have discovered that Ruth is not a needlewoman , and I have far too much to do before we leave . ’ |
| 26 | However , since we have argued that content is not the defining criterion of feminist perspectives , we are not claiming a new objectivity or neutrality . |
| 27 | A replacement will be announced in the next few days , while it has emerged that Donald Carr , who once as England captain poured a bucket of water over a Pakistani umpire , was proposed as referee for the recent Pakistan-Sri Lanka series — and like Graveney , was not surprisingly rejected . |
| 28 | I had wondered once whether that was the reason my father had married her , but that was before I had learned that men are not much given to acts of altruism , and certainly not in sexual matters . |
| 29 | When she left Australia more than a decade before she had prayed that God would fill her heart with love for the people to whom she was to minister . |
| 30 | A few days after they had learnt that Haroun was the illegitimate son of Jazali an extraordinary thing had happened . |