Example sentences of "[pron] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He told me that one factor which had greatly influenced him was her suggestion that on election day Granada should shift Coronation Street so as not to keep in many of his supporters who would otherwise be thinking of going to the polls . |
| 32 | For the sake of this exercise , it matters little that , as a Soviet planner , I fail to narrow the gap between my compressor technology and yours ; nor does it concern me that one rouble of imported Western equipment requires five roubles in investment support : if the six roubles I invest produce fifty roubles of output , how have I injured myself ? |
| 33 | Told me that one youth was in custody and another due to appear in court for the break-ins . |
| 34 | The present owner of the rectory told me that one thing people notice when they go round the garden is that there are now no garage doors . |
| 35 | It seemed to me that all surfers aspired to the condition of divinity . |
| 36 | ‘ Can you offer me no explanation of such clear symptoms , or are you ignoring these , are you telling me that such suffering is a figment of my imagination ? ’ |
| 37 | Chaplin was telling me that such people don ’ t qualify for medals or monuments , unlike those who fight and kill or wound , or are killed or wounded . |
| 38 | I doubt me that many ladies write for old J.D. — a dubious proposition , that . ’ |
| 39 | The co-ordinator told me that many people who had come to therapy groups for anxieties or depressions were now volunteer workers . |
| 40 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 41 | It was quite clear to me that 260,000 people would be reduced very substantially and that for every person who was made redundant in British Steel , seven people were affected — another three in the family , plus the people serving that family in the shops and in other ways . |
| 42 | Whatever they like bottom of the River Trent if you like but it would be very going off the subject and I 've only got a minute or two to spare but what someone pointed out to me that terrible monstrosity outside the Theatre Royal subway and every time I pass I fume inwardly . |
| 43 | It amuses me that eight years ago I had two homes — but I digress again . |
| 44 | It seemed to me that each person living in a house needed his or her special place , a sort of perch . |
| 45 | The Whips had a difficult job and were as usual a good body of men , but the accounts sent in to me showed me that each man in conducting this inquiry adopted a different emphasis according to his own character . |
| 46 | Hawking meanwhile , has a simple explanation for its success : ‘ Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales . |
| 47 | ‘ My experience tells me that few teams have come from outside the top five after Christmas and won the League . |
| 48 | It seems to me that few people have anything pleasant to say about capers , but I love them . |
| 49 | What 's more , after years of growing awareness about the state of the Earth , it seems to me that most governments are still blind to the readiness of their people to accept radical changes in the interests of their children and grandchildren . |
| 50 | It was once explained to me that most Asians in Yorkshire do not play cricket anyway , but that those who did were genuinely encouraged to join Yorkshire League clubs . |
| 51 | No , you pay me that ninety pound back |
| 52 | It is a source of some regret to me that this column will not be here to report the changes . |
| 53 | It seems to me that this explosion of energy has been drained of its radical potential , diverted into areas of service provision which should be the State 's concern . |
| 54 | But the wisdom of age told me that this parabola of promise would not be maintained indefinitely , but would peak and then decline . |
| 55 | Er at the moment there are no savings identified and it seems to me that this Committee needs to deal with the budget as it finds . |
| 56 | It seems to me that this case does not even touch that important question . ’ |
| 57 | Yes well it strikes me that this case involves some very narrow issues really it 's generated an awful lot of paper . |
| 58 | It seems to me that this way of looking at things is the only one which allows us to understand the validity of the second law , and the heat death of each individual world , without invoking a unidimensional change of the entire universe from a definite initial state to a final state . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ What you told me last night , Rachel , only convinced me that this marriage could work , ’ he said softly , and walked towards her with a look of intent in his blue eyes that sent panic rushing through her in hot waves . |
| 60 | It seems to me that this passage describes the way loving relationships turn out to be for Hegel . |