Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had occasional epileptic fits after the first , and they so frightened Rose and her family that everyone became over-protective of her . |
| 2 | So , in the meantime , I 'll just see how dreadful a time I can have , so that everyone feels sorry for me and I can avoid taking responsibility for my life ! ’ |
| 3 | This meant that everyone lived near to one another , and they copied each other exactly . |
| 4 | For example , all that is physically necessary as regards food is to make sure that everyone has enough of the right sort . |
| 5 | And Elizabeth knew that I knew all about her , and she also knew that she was the only person I 'd ever written to for a photograph . |
| 6 | I began to feel he was mine , that I knew all about him . |
| 7 | It was years later that I knew all about it . |
| 8 | I felt that this was possibly a chap I should look at — quite apart from the fact that I knew little of him except that he had somehow or other got out of Holland and become the ADC to Queen Wilhelmina at the Dutch headquarters in London . |
| 9 | Violet Sangston promised me that I knew most of the other guests . |
| 10 | Roza had insisted that I sample some of the frivolities of Paris . |
| 11 | Not that I regret any of it , you understand , but it 's not an enviable state being someone 's mistress . |
| 12 | I 'm a creature of habit — in the way I have my hair cut , the suits I wear , the eternal brown boots that I get ribbed about and which are fleetingly seen by the viewers at the end of the programme as we come to the closing headlines . |
| 13 | ‘ The Queen herself has insisted that I get involved in all aspects of the negotiations at all levels . |
| 14 | By that I mean those of us who do n't fit in to the stereotypes created by our culture , and refuse to be ; for example , such like myself who are n't rapacious materialists , fashion victims , empty-headed bimbos , domineering matriarchs who perpetually have a pan of chicken soup on the hob and a home-made cake ready for everloving family to devour . |
| 15 | But what really made the difference was that I got engaged to a girl called Jane Wilde , whom I had met about the time I was diagnosed with ALS . |
| 16 | With the new round of drinks , he insisted that I try one of his yellow cigarettes . |
| 17 | And if it 's discovered that I spent most of my childhood in care , then reporters could make enquiries and turn it into a big thing . ’ |
| 18 | So that 's three times this that I ate three of the |
| 19 | It is with shame that I write this to you who so well prophesied what has come to pass " . |
| 20 | As far as I can tell , we have some sort of unspoken agreement that I keep quiet about not officially existing in return for being able to do more or less as I like on the island and buy more or less what I like in the town . |
| 21 | So dismal was it that I thought first of Byron 's prophetic poem of the death of light , and then of the lands that lie north of the line of the Arctic Circle . |
| 22 | Not that I know much about him , just that my philosophical friend Kevin Rice despised him . |
| 23 | Yeah , perhaps it 's just that I know some of the loonies that go up there and get what they want every time . |
| 24 | Is it your wish that I sign these as a correct record ? |
| 25 | There is no doubt about the high quality of housing stock that has been built by the Housing Executive in Northern Ireland and every time I see it I am envious and wish that I had some of it in Wigan . |
| 26 | But it 's rock music that I despise most of all |
| 27 | It was a part of becoming adult that I grew aware of the great invisible universe of personality which controls us as surely as do physical laws . |
| 28 | I suppose I fancied him although I told myself that it was just that I felt sorry for him . |
| 29 | He looked so cold and hungry that I felt sorry for him . |
| 30 | All I knew was that I felt married to him . |