Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's small wonder that this plateau has claimed lives , since in the weather that I experienced it 's impossible to have any sense of direction at all without the constant use of a compass and map . |
| 2 | I delivered what was to be my longest speech of the evening , saying that I gathered he was keen to talk about his role , to talk about Gary . |
| 3 | The fact that I knew it was wicked to expose my smooth bare slit gave me a feeling both of pleasure and of power , never vocalised . |
| 4 | And do lots of things that I knew he was capable of doing . |
| 5 | You were so young , at an age to want to experiment and to find a DJ a glamorous figure , that I imagined it was superficial enough to have a time limit on it . |
| 6 | I said that I thought they were wrong ; but that if that was their reason for declining to serve I could only accept it and be sorry . |
| 7 | ‘ The abuse happened so often that I thought it was normal . |
| 8 | If I may say so very well councillor and you were specific and indeed backed up the particular figures , even though of course one is entitled to the that I thought it was fair and well argued . |
| 9 | But although I wrote in my diary that I wished I were dead , I never seriously considered death — suicide — as a solution to my problems . |
| 10 | from Pilkingtons and there 's little , she said you would n't notice it but there 's little like , little things on and when he did the grouting yesterday she said that she said it was awful , she did n't like it at all so she told him this morning |
| 11 | Examining her responses to this normal catalogue of everyday events , of life , she found that she wished she was dead , had been dead for some time , so that she was used to it : and then she thought that if she had been dead for long enough , she would probably be bored with that by now . |
| 12 | The shriek that went up as she sank back on to a wicker sofa drumming her heels on the ground and yelling and shouting that she wished he were dead , and that she 'd been dishonoured , made him quite alarmed . |
| 13 | There was nothing wrong with it except that she doubted it was true and was certain Holly was showing it to Maureen for approval . |
| 14 | You once let out the fact that you wished you were free of the burdens your family placed on you . |
| 15 | ‘ Mrs Grogan , ’ he said , ‘ you said before that you thought we were anxious to see you … ’ |
| 16 | It was only three nights later that we discovered they were tiny insects . |
| 17 | and th they , it was an old Indian treatment , they found it quite , sheer force of circumstances , er , that they discovered it was better sometimes to bind a wound up and leave it alone . |
| 18 | It is dangerous to simplify law , but our understanding is that to convict someone of a serious crime like theft , we normally have to prove not only that they committed the alleged act , but also that they knew it was wrong . |
| 19 | Some survivors from ‘ dive-in ’ accidents have confirmed that they knew it was useless to try to pull out of the dive while they could ‘ feel ’ the glider was still stalled . |
| 20 | I mean they there was a fact that they knew you were unemployed er or was n't in any s You were yours yourself a target . |
| 21 | Her father came up and listened for a while and then said that he thought it was all marvellous but he did n't understand a word of it . |
| 22 | Nor did he say that he thought it was unlikely , on the whole , that the Bishop would sack a perfectly competent administrator who happened not to be smarmy enough to some thruster from the Scottish lowlands . |
| 23 | And while her heart swelled — could he be saying that he thought she was lovely ? — a few seconds later he was steering the Mercedes around a bend and was then at once driving to the other side of the road where a kind of lay-by had been cut into a high mass of rock . |
| 24 | It had been bad enough that he thought she was interested before this had happened . |
| 25 | The Barley Mow tends to be an instant poll of opinion on matters motor racing , and before the Spanish Grand Prix when a Mansell comeback was mooted , one regular announced that he hoped it was true because Nigel was the most exciting British driver anyone could remember . |
| 26 | He went on to say that he felt they were both being rather silly and he wanted to make amends . |
| 27 | He said that he felt it was unfair that his wife should reprimand Jenny as she was so young and did not know how to share properly yet . |
| 28 | What one can read between the lines was that Jackie was n't yet a champion , that he knew he was good enough to be one and that the pressures and opportunities to make money were too good to be passed up . |
| 29 | One 11 year old who was asked about the shape of the Earth replied that he knew he was supposed to say that it was shaped like a sphere , but that he thought people only say that so that it would fit easily on a globe : |
| 30 | Paradoxically , it was n't till her eyes opened that he knew he was wrong . |