Example sentences of "[pers pn] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you have told me that sixteen years ago you retired to Sussex for a quiet life . |
| 2 | My recent visit has convinced me that that kind of solution is now dead . |
| 3 | I received a telephone call just before Question Time telling me that that enterprise will have to close . |
| 4 | And it seems to me that that oneness , that that unity is pneumatic in character . |
| 5 | However , when no real progess is made , the time comes for reassessment , and it seems to me that that time is now . |
| 6 | It seems to me that that attention to the moment is significant of the great work that you do for this particular charity . |
| 7 | It is sufficient to say that the majority view appears to be in line with that which I have formed in the light of the British authorities , and that the dissenting opinion of Wilson J. does not persuade me that that view is wrong . |
| 8 | At this point I found myself wondering how anything so ugly could be so beautiful for believe me that one cat had stirred a new urge in me , the excitement of catching something totally new . |
| 9 | Jamila told me that one day Anwar came into the shop and discovered Changez snoring as he sat on his stool , while in front of his closed eyes an SL was shoving a jar of herrings down his trousers . |
| 10 | I was asked once if it seemed real to me that one day I would be lifeless inside it . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , I remember … when I said you never talked about your parents , and you told me that one day you would tell me all about them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Told me that one youth was in custody and another due to appear in court for the break-ins . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It seemed to me that all surfers aspired to the condition of divinity . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I doubt me that many ladies write for old J.D. — a dubious proposition , that . ’ |
| 20 | The co-ordinator told me that many people who had come to therapy groups for anxieties or depressions were now volunteer workers . |
| 21 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It amuses me that eight years ago I had two homes — but I digress again . |
| 25 | It seemed to me that each person living in a house needed his or her special place , a sort of perch . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Hawking meanwhile , has a simple explanation for its success : ‘ Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales . |
| 28 | ‘ My experience tells me that few teams have come from outside the top five after Christmas and won the League . |
| 29 | It seems to me that few people have anything pleasant to say about capers , but I love them . |
| 30 | 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 . |