Example sentences of "that [subord] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , he made some corrective statements pointing out that although he had made these observations , he was certainly not advocating the use of any drugs , although he continued to ridicule some of the US government 's attempts to stem the tide as being the wrong way to deal with the problem . |
| 2 | It was extraordinary to think that once he had loved this woman to distraction , and now all he wanted was never to see her again . |
| 3 | In their defence , administration officials reply that if they had used more force — for example , to block a third road used by Noriega 's reinforcements -there would have been an unacceptable risk to American troops and Panamanian civilians . |
| 4 | I would imagine that if we 'd suggested that project engineering duties would beco |
| 5 | Erm , I think it fair to say that if you 'd asked more or less to the next meeting and probably sub-committee would be quite , quite acceptable and I would thank you for drawing it to our to our attention . |
| 6 | The dream ended with the thought that if I had known this was the main road I need not have resorted to the acrobatics that had brought me there . |
| 7 | I 'm sure that if I 'd had this excellent book when learning to windsurf my progress would have been much faster . |
| 8 | As a programmer struggles over the fifth tedious revision of a 25-word frame , it is difficult to escape the conclusion that if he had worked this hard on every sentence of the textbooks he had written , these textbooks would probably teach as well as programmes … |
| 9 | His knowledge of the Anglican religious communities , such as it was , made him think that if he decided to try this out , Mirfield in Yorkshire would be the right place ; for at Mirfield many of the fathers had a vocation to teach , or to hear confessions . |
| 10 | She knows that if she had pointed this out to William , and expressed her own wish to take child , and papers , to the Common , William would obligingly have offered to stay at home and chop carrots and peel potatoes and keep an eye on the lamb in the oven . |
| 11 | She sighed , but decided that unless she wanted to stand all the way to Oxford , she had no other choice . |
| 12 | I thought that because he had had such good news he might just like to keep it to himself today . |
| 13 | Suggest to them the fact that when they had finished this one they would know absolutely bloody everything that could be possibly known , now and for always , about Wimbledon . |
| 14 | I decided to visit the Marines that evening and , after thanking Mick for his hospitality , made my way back to the orchard , thinking that as I had visited each Commando unit each day when we were in England , why not now that we were in France ? |
| 15 | When Parker got up he told his audience that as he had heard this he had thought to himself , ‘ I will turn aside and see this great sight ’ . |